About PaneSlide
A small, calm puzzle game made with care. No accounts, no downloads, no noise.
What PaneSlide is
PaneSlide is a free puzzle game you play in your web browser. The board is a small window made of coloured glass panes. Each pane slides along its own rail, left and right or up and down. Your job is to slide the panes until the window matches a small target picture.
The twist is colour. The glass comes in cyan, magenta and yellow, and where two panes overlap the colours mix the way real colour filters do: cyan and magenta make blue, cyan and yellow make green, magenta and yellow make red, and all three make black. So the picture is not just about where each pane sits. It is about which panes cross which.
How you can play
- The daily puzzle. One new puzzle every day, the same for everyone. Monday is the gentlest; the weekend is the hardest. You can share a spoiler-free result made of coloured squares.
- The archive. Missed a day? The archive lets you play any past daily as practice, without touching your streak.
- Levels. An endless path of levels that starts with three quick lessons and slowly introduces nine kinds of special glass, one at a time: locked glass, two-colour pictures, stone pillars, gems, ice, sand, one-way glass, frosted glass and mystery pictures. Every chapter of twenty levels ends with a boss level that restores a stained-glass window in your Glass House.
Every puzzle, daily or level, is checked by a computer search before it ships. That search proves the puzzle has exactly one correct arrangement and finds the true shortest number of swipes, which we call par.
Who makes it
PaneSlide is an independent project made in India by a very small team. The game, the art, the sounds and the music are all original and made in code. The only outside piece is the rounded font, Fredoka, which is free under the SIL Open Font License and is served from our own site.
What we promise
- Free to play. Every puzzle is free. We plan to keep the game free by showing a small number of ads on the website pages in the future, never inside the puzzle itself and never as pop-ups that block play.
- No sign-up. There are no accounts and no passwords. We never ask for your name or email to play.
- Your progress stays with you. Stars, streaks and settings are saved in your own browser using local storage. If you want to move to a new phone, the Settings screen gives you a progress code to copy across.
- Calm by design. No timers, no lives, no energy bars, no pressure to buy anything. Undo is always there. Hints in levels never cost you stars.
- Honest numbers. Par is the real shortest solution, found by search, not a guess.
Get in touch
Found a bug, have an idea for a new kind of glass, or want to tell us about a puzzle you loved? Write to paneslide.game@gmail.com. You can also read the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.