Lantern Trek

Each island is a little world you can turn in your hands, drawn in ink on rice paper, cut in woodblock or painted as a Persian miniature. Find the way up, and light the great lantern waiting at the top. Pip is a small traveler in a straw hat, carrying a paper lantern, and every floating island is a puzzle. How it plays - Tap the ground and Pip walks there - Drag to turn the island, pinch to look closer. What you need is often on the side you haven't seen - Touch the world: stones, magnets, gears, mirrors and bells answer a tap - No quick fingers needed to clear an island. The answer is an idea, and it clicks when you see it Volume I · Paper and Ink: fifty islands - Tides that rise and fall, a lake that is summer one moment and ice the next, snowballs that grow as they roll, a mirror twin who takes every step the other way, an echo of yourself that walks your last steps again - Puzzles from old games and crafts: a chess board where a pawn becomes a queen, sliding blocks, movable type, folded paper, a bronze mirror, shadow play - Later islands bring two ideas you already know together in a new way - A final island at daybreak Volume II · The Northern Night: twenty islands - Cut like old woodblock prints, in a winter the sun no longer rises on - Thor's hammer, the Norns' thread, the ribbon that held the wolf, and a new sun at the end Volume III · A Thousand and One Nights: twenty-one islands - Painted like Persian miniatures, under one full moon - On the last night a little sister blew out the lamp, and every story stopped where it was: Sindbad at sea, Ali Baba at the rock, Aladdin with his lamp More to find - Three small treasures hidden on every island: paper cranes, Idun's apples, pomegranates - A red seal on every island for its bonus challenge, such as fewer moves, a race against the clock, or not a scratch - A small curio on each island for your curio cabinet Made with care - Each volume has its own hand: ink and wash, woodcut, miniature - Music played on real instruments: zither, harp, cello, psaltery, ocarina and chimes, slow and quiet - Hints when you want them, a little at a time, so the idea stays yours - The first eight islands of Volume I cost nothing, and the first four of each later volume; each volume is one purchase - No ads and no account. Plays without a connection - English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) - Portrait or landscape, phone or tablet