How To Play

RotaPipe is a 3D pipe-rotation puzzle. Rotate the misaligned pipe pieces to connect the valve to the faucet.

Rotating the Pieces

Tap a pipe piece to open the rotation picker — a panel of 3D previews showing every orientation that piece's shape allows, rendered from the same angle you're viewing the puzzle. Tap the orientation you want to snap it into place.

Visual Feedback

Pipes highlight as they connect from the valve, so you can see how far your water flow has reached.

When you complete a full path to the faucet, the completed path flashes to celebrate the solve.

The Valve & Faucet

Every puzzle has a valve (the water source) and a faucet (the destination). They're fixed in place with a single connection direction each — you can't rotate them.

Your job is to rotate the pieces in between so a continuous pipe path runs from the valve to the faucet.

The Pieces & The Cube

Pieces sit in a 3D cube grid. Pipe pieces form the intended route but their orientation has been altered so they no longer form a connected path.Decoy pieces are pipe pieces that are not a part of the connecting path. The challenge is to figure out a valid path amongst all of the distractions.

You can orbit the cube by dragging to inspect every side. As you progress, the grid grows (from 3×3×3 up to 10×10×10), paths get longer, and more decoys appear.

Progression

Each level has an endless sequence of puzzles. Solve a set number of puzzles in a level to unlock the next level. The next puzzle you play is always the next one you haven't solved yet.

Scoring

Scoring is an efficiency score — lower is better. It rewards solving cleanly and quickly. This means that fewer moves and less hints could score better than a puzzle solved faster but with more moves and hints. Planned strategic moves tend to outscore attempts trying to discover the path by making a lot of trial and error moves.

Moves

× 30 each

Hints

× 1000 each

Time

× 1 / sec

Moves dominate the score. Hintsare a heavy penalty (about 33× a move) — use them sparingly. Timeis a light tiebreaker (roughly 30 seconds ≈ 1 move), so careful planning still beats rushing.

Favoriting

On a level's puzzle list you can favorite any puzzle you've solved with the heart icon. Favorites are collected on a single Favorites screen so you can revisit your favorite challenges anytime.

The Favorites screen also has a global view — switch to it to see the puzzles the whole community has favorited most, ranked by how many players have hearted them.

Top 10 Lists

Each puzzle shows two top-10 leaderboards:

Top 10 (first attempt) — ranks each player's first solve of that puzzle only. Everyone gets exactly one shot counted.

Top 10 (all attempts) — ranks every solved attempt, including replays. A single player can hold multiple spots here if they have several qualifying scores.

Both are sorted by efficiency score (lowest first).

The Daily Puzzle

There's one Daily Puzzle each calendar day — everyone plays the same puzzle that day.

Its difficulty (level) is set by your progression: the highest level you've reached picks the daily tier.

DOUBLE UP! If you solve puzzles and progress to qualify for a new tier, you can play the Daily Puzzle for the next tier even if you've already completed the previous tier's Daily Puzzle!

1–4

Highest level

Level 4

Daily tier

5–6

Highest level

Level 6

Daily tier

7–8

Highest level

Level 8

Daily tier

9+

Highest level

Level 10

Daily tier