# Lantern Trek — Ink & paper puzzle islands

> Ink & paper puzzle islands (iPhone/iPad app by 坤宁 毛.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lantern-trek/id6821404376 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [坤宁 毛](https://appshunter.io/developer/1201945856)
- Category: Games, Board, Puzzle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 23 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-30
- Data updated: 2026-11-06

## What is 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

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vol. II · The Northern Night | $2.99 | one-time |
| Vol. III · 1001 Nights | $2.99 | one-time |
| All Fifty Islands | $4.99 | one-time |


## Is Lantern Trek safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Lantern Trek.

## Is Lantern Trek legit?

Lantern Trek appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Lantern Trek is 75 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1.0 — 2026-11-03

Two new volumes.

The Northern Night: twenty islands in a winter the sun no longer rises on, cut like old woodblock prints.

A Thousand and One Nights: twenty-one islands painted like Persian miniatures, where every story has stopped.

The first four islands of each cost nothing.

Also new: a map for every volume, a curio cabinet, better iPad and landscape layouts, and a cooler phone.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-30

No release notes.

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