Guides and strategy

Written by the people who make the games, from the way the games really work: the actual scoring, costs and rules. Use them to get past a tough level, work out why a run went wrong, or just see how a game is put together.

Vaults

Tower defence with logic locks, relics and a daily Gauntlet.

• How Daily Gauntlet scoring works in Vaults – Exactly how a Vaults run is scored, and where the extra points are: lives, locks, cash and speed.
• Vaults towers guide: what each tower is for – The six Vaults towers compared by cost, damage and range, with advice on which to build first and how to upgrade.
• Solving Vaults lock puzzles faster – The five kinds of lock puzzle in Vaults (sequences, lights, memory, circuits and knights and knaves) and a method for each.

Bug Lanes

Lane defence: stop the bugs before they reach your core.

• Bug Lanes defenders explained – What every Bug Lanes defender costs and does, from the Dynamo to the Mender, and how to combine them.
• Bug Lanes bugs and how to beat them – Every bug in Bug Lanes, from the basic Bit to the Kernel Panic boss: what it does, its stats and the defender that answers it.

Hunt

One bug in every colour zone, found with logic alone.

• Hunt: how to solve it with logic – The rules of Hunt and the deduction techniques that solve every board without guessing.

Spark Boxes

Dots and boxes on squares, triangles and octagons.

• Spark Boxes strategy: how to beat the bot – Dots and boxes strategy for Spark Boxes: safe moves, chains, loops, sacrifices and the counting rule that decides who wins.

Sort Lab

Pour, drive and slide: three sorting puzzles in one place.

• Tube Pour tips: sorting coloured liquids – How Tube Pour works in Sort Lab, including clay tubes, padlocked cabinets and corks, and a way of thinking that solves hard levels.
• Loop Sort guide: timing taps on the ring road – How Loop Sort works in Sort Lab: trucks, the ring road, shrouds and the colour limit, and how to plan your taps.

Whispers of Wonderland

A minesweeper-style delve through the fog.

• Whispers of Wonderland: reading the fog – How to read the numbers in Whispers of Wonderland's fog delve, including walls, wards and why you never have to guess.

Firewall

Drag your turret, shoot the bugs and pick an upgrade after every wave.

• Firewall guide: upgrades, pickups and the Rootkit – How to get through Firewall's eight waves and the Rootkit boss: turrets, upgrades, good and bad pickups and the foes you will meet.

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