Fogcarver
A calm hex tile puzzle drawn as an old sea chart. One daily island for everyone.
No ad ever touches a tile.
Every tile is dealt in a fixed order. None is ever bought, redrawn or unlocked with an ad, so the score you make is the island you built.
Each island is a fixed outline of hexagons under the fog. Its coast, one spring and one ruin show through before you start. Tiles come from a stack in a set order: you hold one, and you can see the next two.
Tap the tile in the tray to turn it a sixth of the way round. Each of its six edges is meadow, forest, village, river or coast, so the turn decides what meets what.
Drag it onto any fogged cell and lift your finger to place it. If you prefer, tap a cell once to park the tile there, turn it in the tray, then tap the same cell again to confirm. Tapping open sea cancels.
While the tile waits over a cell, it shows the points it would score, with an ink tick on every edge that matches. Nothing is final until you lift.
Undo, the curved arrow beside the tray, takes back your last tile for free. It is one step, so plan before you lay the next.
When every cell is filled, the rest of the fog lifts and the island frames itself as a chart. Your score sits beside par, the pennant, and gold, the laurel.
The score is worked out from the whole board after every tile, so Undo is always exact. Play itself has no words: matched edges melt into one wash of colour, mismatched ones keep an ink line, and landmarks stamp in red.
Seams. An edge that meets the same land on the next tile.
Shores. A coast or river edge that faces the sea.
The ruin. Every seam and shore around the ruin counts double.
Close a forest or a village of three tiles or more and it plants a watchtower or a mill on the spot, worth 3 more.
Closed forest. A forest whose every edge meets forest: none faces fog, sea or other land.
Closed village. The same rule for villages, and worth more.
River to the sea. The river from the spring reaches the sea: every tile on it pays, and a lighthouse at its mouth adds 3.
Fraying. A forest or village edge that faces the sea or other land can never close. Meadow never closes, it only scores seams.
The daily island is numbered from your own calendar date. Everyone gets the same coast, the same 19 tiles in the same order, and the same par and gold, on Android and here in the browser. It takes about three minutes.
Par and gold were worked out offline for every day. A careful player reaches par about one day in three. Gold needs a closed forest or village and the river running to the sea, so it is rare.
Finish and share the framed map, with a line that reads in any chat:
Everyone shares the same coastline with a different island inside it. The Android app also keeps your streak and an archive of every past day.
The outline is fixed, so the cells along it are known from the first tile. Give them tiles whose coast or river edges face outward: each one scores a shore point and costs you nothing inland. A forest or village edge pointed at the sea frays that patch for good.
A closure pays on every tile in it, so a forest of four is worth 8 before its watchtower. Build these patches in the middle of the island, where every side can still meet more of the same land, and finish them before the stack runs out of the right tiles.
Three tiles are enough for a landmark. A big open forest is tempting, but every extra tile is another edge that might meet the wrong land. When the next two tiles in the tray can close a patch, close it.
The spring only matters once a river tile lands on it. Before you lay one there, look at the route to the sea and at the tiles in view. Each river tile on the way pays 2, and the lighthouse adds 3, so a short river that arrives beats a long one that stops.
Every seam around the ruin counts double. Put a tile on the ruin whose edges match what is already around it, and fill its neighbours with the same land. A ruin surrounded by meadow is easy points.
Meadow never closes, but it scores every seam it meets. When a cell sits between awkward neighbours, a mostly meadow tile there keeps your forests and villages clean.
Park a tile on one cell to read its gain, then try another before you confirm. The number counts only this tile; the closures it makes possible later are yours to see.
Undo is free but goes back one tile only. Use it when a placement surprises you, not as a way to search the whole board.
Yes. The browser version and the Android app are both free. The Android app shows a full screen ad only between Atlas islands, and offers rewarded ads you can choose to watch for a bonus. One optional purchase, Remove ads and archive, removes those ads for good.
Yes. The day number comes from your own calendar date, and the island, the tiles, their order, par and gold are the same everywhere for that day.
An endless book of islands, three to a page, that grow from a small tutorial island to full 19 cell islands with a spring and a ruin. Finishing all three islands on a page opens the next one. There are 150 islands, then turned and mirrored copies of them.
In the Android app, the archive lists every past day. An unplayed day opens with a rewarded ad (up to three a day) or with Remove ads and archive. In the browser, past islands open in the Android app.
Only on your device: in the app's storage on Android, or in this browser's local storage on the web. There is no account, and the two keep separate progress.
The Android app plays without a connection. In the browser, the page needs a connection to load.
Fogcarver is free on Google Play with ads, and Remove ads and archive is an optional one-time purchase of USD 2.99 through Google Play. It removes the ads between islands, opens every past daily island, and gives the rewarded bonuses without an ad.
In the browser the same game plays with your progress kept in this browser, with ads beside the game on wide screens. How each version handles your data is in the privacy policy.