Tangle: Rope Untangle
PNW Mobile Games Arcade In-app purchases Contains ads
Untangle ropes on ten PNW docks. Drag cleats, clear every crossing, win 3 stars.
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Updated
- Oct 14
- 2026 · v1.0.0
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About Tangle: Rope Untangle
A weathered fishing dock at golden hour. Brass cleats sit in a grid of sockets, colored ropes run between them, and every place two ropes cross is marked with a pulsing red X. Drag the cleats until nothing crosses. Simple to learn, and it gets properly tricky.
Tangle is a hand-tuned rope puzzle across ten Pacific Northwest locations and 200 docks, and every location teaches one new idea:
- Cedar Cove: the basics, drag a cleat and the ropes follow
- Crab Pot Row: moves are limited, and fewer moves earn more stars
- Iron Wharf: iron cleats are bolted down and never move
- Bungee Bight: striped bungee cords only stretch so far
- Weaver's Reach: over and under, same-color ropes may cross
- Knot Head Light: bring every knot home to its painted zone
- Reef Rocks: rocks sit on sockets, and ropes run right over them
- Tide Swap Quay: drop a cleat on another cleat and they trade places
- Trawler Basin: big tangles with fifteen cleats and more
- Storm Harbor: everything at once, with boss docks to close it out
THREE STARS, THREE GOALS
Every dock tells you its goals before you start: clear it in the move limit, clear it in a few more moves than the shortest solution, or match the shortest solution plus one. Every dock has been solved to three stars by our test solver, so every star is earnable.
MADE TO BE PLAYED WELL
- Hint glides a cleat toward its place, Undo takes a move back, Spot dims every rope that is not crossing
- A "What's new" card the first time any new twist appears, and a How to Play guide in the pause menu
- A new Daily Tangle every day with a streak, and a Daily Gift of free Hints and Undos
- Star gates between locations, and two boss docks in every location
- Rope twang, dock thumps, two music beds and vibration on every move
- Plays offline. No account, no timer, no energy.
FAIR MONETIZATION
Ads are optional extras you choose to watch (a Hint or Undo after your free ones, +5 moves after a failed dock, doubling the daily gift) plus an occasional ad between solved docks. One purchase, "Remove Ads + Premium" ($3.99), removes those ads and makes every extra free.
Pacific Northwest Mobile Games · pnwmg.com
Tangle is a hand-tuned rope puzzle across ten Pacific Northwest locations and 200 docks, and every location teaches one new idea:
- Cedar Cove: the basics, drag a cleat and the ropes follow
- Crab Pot Row: moves are limited, and fewer moves earn more stars
- Iron Wharf: iron cleats are bolted down and never move
- Bungee Bight: striped bungee cords only stretch so far
- Weaver's Reach: over and under, same-color ropes may cross
- Knot Head Light: bring every knot home to its painted zone
- Reef Rocks: rocks sit on sockets, and ropes run right over them
- Tide Swap Quay: drop a cleat on another cleat and they trade places
- Trawler Basin: big tangles with fifteen cleats and more
- Storm Harbor: everything at once, with boss docks to close it out
THREE STARS, THREE GOALS
Every dock tells you its goals before you start: clear it in the move limit, clear it in a few more moves than the shortest solution, or match the shortest solution plus one. Every dock has been solved to three stars by our test solver, so every star is earnable.
MADE TO BE PLAYED WELL
- Hint glides a cleat toward its place, Undo takes a move back, Spot dims every rope that is not crossing
- A "What's new" card the first time any new twist appears, and a How to Play guide in the pause menu
- A new Daily Tangle every day with a streak, and a Daily Gift of free Hints and Undos
- Star gates between locations, and two boss docks in every location
- Rope twang, dock thumps, two music beds and vibration on every move
- Plays offline. No account, no timer, no energy.
FAIR MONETIZATION
Ads are optional extras you choose to watch (a Hint or Undo after your free ones, +5 moves after a failed dock, doubling the daily gift) plus an occasional ad between solved docks. One purchase, "Remove Ads + Premium" ($3.99), removes those ads and makes every extra free.
Pacific Northwest Mobile Games · pnwmg.com
What’s new
Version 1.0.0 · Updated October 14, 2026
Welcome to Tangle: Rope Untangle! - 200 hand-checked rope puzzles across 10 coastal locations - Two boss docks in every location - New mechanics as you travel: Reef Rocks and Tide Swap - Daily puzzle, daily gift and star goals on every dock - Optional one-time purchase to remove ads
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