Turnstone — Hourglass Merge

Every merge game gives you one box. Turnstone gives you an hourglass — and lets you flip it. You're a gemcutter dropping stones into the lower bulb of a great brass hourglass. Match two equal gems and they merge into a finer cut, Grit all the way up to the Regal Stone. Every merge banks sand in the TURN meter, and when it fills you may do the thing no other merge game lets you do: turn the entire glass. The pile you built pours back down through the narrow waist, stones collide and cascade, and everything is reborn below. • Eleven cut gems: Grit, Quartz, Citrine, Garnet, Amethyst, Peridot, Topaz, Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald and the Regal Stone • Merges inside the waist score x2 — every pour is a merge festival • The Regal Stone is wider than the neck: turn the glass with one on board and it is CUT at the waist for a huge facet-shower bonus • COMMISSIONS: an endless ladder of patron orders, always exactly one on screen — fill it, ring the workshop bell, earn Facet Dust • THE LAPIDARY LEDGER: twelve masterworks unlocked by lifetime milestones, each page advancing the apprentice's story • THE CUTTER'S CABINET: spend dust on eight permanent workshop tools — sorted deals, a patient red arc, a taller x2 band — but you work with only ONE in hand • THE DAY GLASS: once a day, forty stones from the same pouch as every player on Earth. Bare hands, house rules. Streaks with a grace day, trophy tiers, and a spoiler-free score card to challenge friends • THE WORKSHOP BENCHES: six hourglasses to earn and work at — quicksilver-quick, the calm Still, a Runner's bench that fills the sand faster, the forgiving Deepwell, and the Master's Bench with its taller waist. Each vessel has its own tint, gravity and feel, and keeps its own best for you to master; your equipped tool works at whatever bench you choose • The pile setting in the shoulders ends the run — turning the glass is also your relief valve, so hoard the sand or spend it • Drag to aim, release to drop; one finger, no timers • Best-score chase, instant restarts • Fully offline, nothing collected Time is a vessel. Turn it.