PANKO'S SUNLIT GARDEN
Sunbeam Garden
Turn mirrors so warm sunlight reaches every sleeping plant.
Sunbeam Garden
Rotate mirrors on a six-by-six garden board until every visible sunbeam follows a valid path from its source to the sleeping lotus.
World and Mission
Panko is reopening thirty shaded gardens. The opening gardens teach distinct route shapes, Garden 6 introduces two simultaneous suns, and the final chapter combines dense dual-source networks.
Every animated beam follows the current board, so it shows exactly where a route turns, loops, leaves the garden, or reaches the shared lotus.
How the Systems Work
Tap a mirror to rotate it between its two diagonal reflection states.
Each beam advances one cell at a time, reflects only from a mirror it actually reaches, and stops at an edge or repeated loop.
A dual-source stage clears only when both independently traced beams enter the lotus cell; a nearby line or one completed route does not count.
Hint corrects one route mirror that differs from the authored solution and ignores untouched decoys. Reset restores every starting rotation.
How to Play
- Choose an unlocked garden.
- Trace backward from the lotus and forward from every visible sun.
- Rotate one mirror, then read all updated beam paths.
- Connect every final reflected segment to the lotus and continue from Result.
Strategy Tips
- Begin with mirrors already touched by the beam.
- Use edge exits to eliminate impossible reflection choices.
- When a loop appears, change the first mirror that sends light back into an earlier cell.
- Do not rotate untouched mirrors until the route is close enough to use them.
Campaign and Difficulty Growth
Gardens 1-10 use ten different route topologies and rise from two to six required rotations. Garden 6 introduces the dual-source completion rule.
Gardens 11-20 vary multi-source networks and decoys. Gardens 21-30 use dense dual-source routes whose verified shortest solutions require ten or eleven rotations.
Developer Design Note
The beam, mirror center, grid cell, and solved-state trace share one coordinate system, so the visual route and the rule cannot drift apart at different screen sizes. 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
There is no timer, account, purchase, or public ranking. Cleared gardens and local move records stay 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 did the lotus not wake?
- Every active beam must enter its exact cell; one completed beam is not enough on a dual-source garden.
- Can light pass through a mirror?
- No, a reached mirror always reflects according to its current state.
- Can a beam loop?
- Yes; rotate the first mirror that repeats that route.
- Does Hint finish the board?
- No, it corrects one useful route mirror.
- 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.