How to play Fold
A sheet of paper folds up in front of you and gets hole-punched. Mark where the holes are once it opens back out. Four rounds a day, the last one backward, on the second shelf, outside the daily line-up.
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The rules
- Watch the sheet fold — two or three times — and then get punched. A punch goes through every layer under it.
- The little picture keeps the folded sheet and its punch in view while you answer; Replay runs the folds again.
- Tap a square to mark a hole on the open sheet, tap it again to clear it. Mark every hole, then Check.
- Each hole you found counts; a mark where there is no hole costs one. A round with every hole and no strays is perfect.
- Four rounds a day, more folds and punches each time. The fourth runs backward: you are shown the open sheet with its holes, and you punch the folded sheet to make that pattern.
- One game a day. Your progress is saved round by round, so a refresh is not a second attempt; the archive holds every past day.
Strategy
- Unfold it in your head, last fold first. The punch has a twin mirrored across the last crease; then each of those has a twin across the crease before it. Work backward and the pattern builds itself.
- Count the layers. Two folds is four layers, three is eight — but only where the flaps overlap. The tiles under a punch show how many layers it went through, and that is how many holes to find for it.
- A diagonal fold mirrors across the corner-to-corner line, so a hole’s twin swaps its row and column. The squares the crease cuts through are never punched.
- Watch the flap, not the sheet. Which side lifted and where it landed is the whole fold. If you lost it, Replay costs nothing but time.
- The backward round is the same trick the other way: fold the holes along with the paper. Holes that are mirror images across a crease end up in one stack, under one punch.
Scoring
Each round scores the holes you found minus any strays, over the holes there were, never below zero. Your score for the day is the average of the four rounds, out of 100. Four perfect rounds is 100; three perfect rounds and one where you found four of six holes with no strays is 92. Fold sits outside the daily line-up, so its score never moves your day’s total.
Full details on how scoring works.