Cocoa Quill Halves

Every square on the board is already cream or cocoa, and that shading never changes. Your job is to cut the whole bar into pieces, so that each piece holds as many cream squares as cocoa squares - and so that the cream part and the cocoa part are the same shape. Turn one half, flip it over if you like, and it should lie exactly on top of the other.

That single rule is the whole game. Nothing is hidden, nothing is random, and nothing is guessed. Everything you need is printed on the board in front of you.

THE SHAPES DO THE TEACHING

Most grid puzzles ask you to count. This one asks you to see. Once a piece is closed, its badge shows how many cream and how many cocoa squares are inside, and it earns a tick the moment the two halves match in shape. After a few boards you stop counting squares altogether and start spotting the mirrored twin at a glance - a bend and its turned copy, a step and its flipped partner.

NUMBERS WHERE YOU NEED THEM

Some pieces carry a printed number telling you how many squares that whole piece holds, both halves counted together. It is always an even number, and a piece never carries two. You choose how many numbers appear: Gentle prints one on almost every piece, Standard mixes numbered and blank, and Sharp leaves you leaning on the shapes alone.

THREE BARS TO BREAK

Cozy is six by six for a quick sitting. Classic is eight by eight, the everyday board. Grand is ten by ten when you want to take your time. Every board is built fresh the moment you ask for it, so you will never meet the same one twice, and every board is guaranteed solvable because the answer is built before the puzzle is.

TWO WAYS TO DRAW

Use the seam tool to tap the line between two squares and draw a border there, exactly the way you would with a pencil. Or use the paint tool to mark one square and pull its neighbours into the piece with a tap each. Both tools edit the same board, so you can switch whenever one feels quicker, and undo steps back through everything you have done.

STUCK IS FINE

A hint lays out one whole piece you have not found yet, so you can see the pattern rather than be told the answer. Clear wipes the board back to plain squares if you want a fresh run at it. Nothing is ever locked away behind a wait or a purchase.

A RECORD WORTH KEEPING

The record book tracks every size on its own: boards finished, best time, runs completed without a single hint, and the hours you have spent at the tempering table. Twelve awards mark the milestones, from your first split to a hundred boards broken clean.

QUIET BY DESIGN

This is a completely offline puzzle. There is no internet connection, no account, no sign-in, no advertising, no tracking and no analytics of any kind. There is no sound at all - the board answers with colour and, if you want it, a short buzz when a piece finally matches. Nothing interrupts you and nothing asks you for anything.

No timers pushing you along, no lives to run out, no in-app purchases, no currency, no wagering, no spinning anything. Just a shaded bar, a rule about halves, and as long as you need.

Play it on a train with no signal, in a waiting room, or in bed with the sound off. It works the same everywhere.

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Cocoa Quill Halves