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NUMBER MATCH
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PANKO'S NUMBER GROVE

Panko's Number Grove

Clear number pairs that add up to ten. Open sight lines and keep the grove tidy.

How to play

Choose two numbers whose sum is exactly 10. They must touch or see each other across cleared spaces.

CHOOSE A GROVE

Panko's Number Grove

GROVE CLEARED

Every number found a partner!

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PANKO'S NUMBER GROVE

How to play

Choose two numbers whose sum is exactly 10. They must touch or see each other across cleared spaces.

WeightPlay Original Game Guide

Panko's Number Grove

Remove pairs that total ten when they touch or can see each other through cleared spaces, opening new sight lines across the board.

GameplayVisible-Line Number Pair Puzzle
GenrePuzzle · Strategy · Animal
DifficultyEasy to Challenging
Estimated Play Time2-8 minutes per stage
Skills TrainedLogic · Planning · Problem Solving

World and Mission

Thirty number groves have become crowded with paired rune tiles. Panko clears them by making sums of ten under one consistent visibility rule.

The board never asks the player to guess a hidden value. Every number and every empty space needed for the next deduction remains visible.

How the Systems Work

A legal pair contains two values whose sum is ten. Equal values are legal only when both tiles are five.

The two tiles must be adjacent in the same row or column, or share a straight line containing only cleared cells.

Removing a pair creates new empty cells and may expose a longer match that was blocked before.

Undo restores one pair. Reorder rearranges only remaining values when available, while Restart restores the authored board.

How to Play

  1. Choose an unlocked grove.
  2. Tap one number and then a legal partner.
  3. Use the new empty cells to find longer horizontal or vertical sight lines.
  4. Clear every pair to complete the grove.

Strategy Tips

  • Prefer matches that open the center or connect two separated empty regions.
  • Before spending a flexible number, check whether its complement has another useful sight line.
  • Scan rows and columns again after every removal because visibility changes immediately.
  • Use Hint to learn the current legality rule, not as a substitute for reading the board.

Campaign and Difficulty Growth

Six chapters expand board size and introduce denser blockers, longer sight lines, competing pair choices, and layouts that require careful opening order.

Difficulty comes from spatial consequences while the arithmetic remains limited to sums of ten.

Developer Design Note

Numbers remain visible as text and the selection state uses more than color, supporting keyboard, touch, and mouse play. The complete interface uses one centered logical layout with a 920-pixel maximum. Phone, landscape, and desktop views scale the same controls, hit areas, artwork, and game coordinates together instead of stretching individual pieces. Touch, mouse, and keyboard therefore act on the same legal state. The Main poster and Start Game action remain separate from Stage management, while Stage selection, Battle, dialogs, and Result keep their own bounded content and return path.

Parent Note

No account, countdown, purchase, or public score is required. Local clears and best move counts remain in this browser. You can play without creating an account. Progress is saved in local browser storage on the current browser profile, not in an online account or cross-device database. Clearing site data, using private browsing, changing browsers, or moving to another device can create a separate save or remove the existing one. Language, sound, and reduced-motion preferences follow the shared WeightPlay controls when the browser permits storage. No guide result is a medical, school, or professional assessment.

FAQ

Why can two equal values not clear?
Equal values are not a pair unless both are five; every legal pair must total ten and share a clear row or column.
Do diagonal pairs count?
No, pairs use adjacency or a straight horizontal or vertical sight line.
What does Reorder do?
It rearranges the remaining values without changing the sum-to-ten rule.
Are stages timed?
No, you can inspect the board at your own pace.
Which controls and screen sizes are supported?
The same rules support touch, mouse, and keyboard where the game uses those inputs. The interface scales as one logical layout across the required phone, landscape, and desktop viewports.
Can progress move automatically to another device?
No. This game currently saves to local browser storage only, so another browser profile or device begins with its own separate local progress unless a future account system is added.