Tessera
Cover the board with the tiles you are given, each used exactly once. The heavy outlines mark regions, and the numbers your tiles lay down have to satisfy each region's badge — a total, all-matching, all-different, or a rule each number has to meet on its own. Placing costs nothing, so it rewards trying things.
How it works
- Cover every cell of the board. Each tile is used exactly once.
- Tap a tile to hold it, then drag it onto the board. Tap a held tile again to turn it.
- Heavy outlines mark regions. The numbers covering a region must satisfy its badge.
- “12” — the covering numbers add up to 12. “=” all match, “≠” all differ.
- Placing costs nothing — try things freely. Cover the board, then press Check.
The same rules are shown inside the app, on the puzzle’s overview screen — one tap opens the difficulty choice and how to play together, so you never have to go looking for them.
Good if you want…
- Something you almost certainly have not played before
- Shape-fitting with a logic constraint on top
- Experimenting rather than being punished for it
Tessera in Winters Puzzles
Tessera is one of 32 puzzles in Winters Puzzles, so it sits alongside Flow, Sliding Puzzle, Lattice and everything else in the app rather than being a download of its own. It can turn up in Today’s Mix, and it counts towards your stats and streak like any other puzzle.
Play Tessera.
Free on iPhone and iPad, with 31 other puzzles alongside it.
