What is a tape puzzle?

A tape puzzle is a puzzle about order. Strips of colored tape overlap on a box, and you can only peel the ones on top. Peeled strips go into a small tray, and three of the same color clear.

What makes it different

• Layers instead of a grid. In sort puzzles you move pieces between tubes or stacks. In a tape puzzle the box decides the order: every strip you peel uncovers new ones.
• One small tray. Five slots for up to six colors means you have to plan. Opening too many colors at once overflows the tray.
• No luck. In Peel every level is built and then checked by a solver, so it can always be cleared, even with all three stars.
• A satisfying action. Peeling tape is something everyone knows from moving boxes and parcels, and the game is built around that feeling and sound.

Who it is for

Easy mode shows which strips are free, so kids can learn it in a minute. Later boxes add frozen tape, mystery paper (Medium and Hard) and real decision points, where a move that fits in the tray can still lose three moves later.

Read the full rules of Peel or watch a box solve itself on any level page.

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