Arctic Circuit

Arctic Circuit - a pipe puzzle played on a five by five grid of frozen segments. Each level places a fixed inlet socket on the left edge and an outlet socket on the right edge, while the cells in between hold straight pipes, elbows and three-way joints in scrambled orientations. A single tap turns one segment ninety degrees clockwise, and every tap takes one move from the counter at the top of the screen. Segments already linked to the inlet glow, so the connected part of the line stays visible while the rest of the grid is still being sorted out. A level is cleared the moment an unbroken line runs from the inlet socket to the outlet socket, and the points for that level are a flat amount plus ten for each move still remaining, which makes shorter solutions worth more. Levels then continue with longer routes, and the run ends as soon as the move counter reaches zero without a finished line. The closing panel shows the level reached, the total points of the run and the best total saved on the device. A results table keeps the eight highest totals across sessions, and the settings panel holds a three step difficulty switch that changes how many moves each level grants, a toggle for the glow and shake effects, and a control that clears the saved totals. Every option and every saved total survives a restart. A rules panel opened from the menu explains the controls, and the whole game runs offline in portrait orientation.