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Cascade

A puzzle of flowing energy. Wire up splitters, delays, dividers and banks so power reaches every Target before your turns run out — across Calm, Standard and Volatile networks.

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Cascade is a turn-based puzzle about routing energy. Every network has one or more glowing Sources and one or more Targets that need power. Each turn a Source pushes out 4⚡, split across its wires, and energy travels one hop at a time toward the Targets. You never move energy by hand. You spend a few action points rewiring and reconfiguring the parts in between, then press End turn to let the pulse flow.

Every network runs left to right, from Source to Target. A signal's path through it might look like this:

Source

Relay

Amplifier

Target

Half the Source's 4⚡ was leaking into a Drain (the crossed-out wire). Route it clear, and it all flows through the Relay into an Amplifier that doubles it, then lands on the Target.

Mind the load

Push more than 15⚡ into any part in a single turn and it overloads: it goes dark for two turns and dumps whatever it was holding. Amplifiers also run hot on their own: hold one firing turn after turn (faster at high gain) and it burns out into a plain Relay. Feather the flow, and rest an amp to let it cool.

The network

Sources, Drains and Targets are fixed: the parts between them are yours to rewire and reconfigure (each node takes up to three outputs):

Source: pumps out 4⚡ every turn, split evenly across its wires. Fixed: you choose only where it feeds.

Relay: passes energy straight through, split evenly across its outputs.

Amplifier: multiplies what arrives by a gain you set (×1.5, ×2 or ×3), capped at 15⚡. Runs hot, and a network allows only a few.

Damper: halves incoming energy, rounded down. Handy for cooling an over-hot line.

Delay: holds energy one extra turn before releasing it, so you can time two streams to meet.

Capacitor: banks energy silently until it reaches a discharge threshold you set, then releases it all at once: a steady drip or one big burst.

Splitter: divides incoming energy by a ratio you set, between its first wire and the rest.

Merge: banks energy until every one of its inputs fires on the same turn, then releases it all with a +50% sync bonus.

Resonator: rewards a sudden surge: when its input jumps above last turn's, it adds a bonus. Feed it a Capacitor or Merge burst.

Drain: destroys everything that reaches it. Route around it, or starve it. Fixed.

Target: where energy must land. It never burns out, but only absorbs so much per turn: the overflow spills away. Fixed.

Reach the quota

Each network hands you a few action points per turn: every wire you add or cut, and every part you reconfigure, spends one. Deliver each Target's full quota of energy before the turn limit runs out and the network stabilises. Three difficulties (Calm, Standard and Volatile) dial up the size, the number of targets and how tight the turn budget is. Lean on Preview flow to see next turn before you commit, Undo turn to take it back, and a few free Hints when you're stuck.

Delivered21⚡ / 30⚡

Every turn, more energy reaches the Target. Fill the meter to its quota before your turns run out.

Clear a network fast and with little energy wasted and it's rated up to three stars. Spin up a new network any time, pick your difficulty and seed, or replay a seed to try for a cleaner solve.

Tips

Route wires clear of Drains, or leave a Drain starved with nothing feeding it.
A Delay on one line lets two streams hit a Merge on the same turn for the sync bonus.
Send a Capacitor or Merge burst into a Resonator to cash in on the spike.
Keep any single wire under 15⚡ so nothing overloads, and rest amplifiers before they burn out.
Watch a Target's per-turn intake: dump too much at once and the surplus is lost.

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