Loops of Zen is a game about closing all the loops on a page by rotating the pieces. Each level is randomly generated, so it’s impossible to write an answer key type walkthrough. Here are some tips and tricks to get you through the game. You can play Loops of Zen on Kongregate:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/ahnt/loops-of-zen/
1. Start by looking for places where a piece MUST be turned a certain way. When there’s a 3-way piece or a straight line, and one edge doesn’t have a piece in that direction (like when it’s the edge of the board), then it’s a dead giveaway that the piece can only be oriented one direction. Also, when there is a curved piece in the corner it can only be oriented one way.
2. Now look for pieces next to those pieces that you just set that must be turned a certain way to connect to that piece. Good examples are curve pieces on the edge next to a straight or 3-way piece, or circle pieces with only one connection point next to those same pieces.
3. Many of these pieces that you’ve found in the first two examples were on the outside edges of the board. Try to finish off the entire outside edges by doing this same techinque. Use process of elimination to determine which orientations could not possibly work in order to determine which one it must be.
4. Continue working outside in, putting pieces in place which you know are right. 3-way pieces and straight lines are good for this if you can get any piece next to it which does not have a path to that piece, then you know the orientation. 4-way pieces are also good because you know they must connect in every direction. If they are next to a straight line or a circle piece, you know exactly which way that piece must be oriented to connect to the 4-way.
5. When you run out of pieces which must be in certain directions, look for pieces which at least cannot be in the orientation they display, and change them to one of the possible orientations. Use this to start putting together the rest of the puzzle.
6. When you get to the end, most of the puzzle will look good, but there will be a few glitches. These glitches are an extra little piece of loop sticking out which isn’t connected to anything. You’ll notice that you can change the puzzle to try to repair these glitches, but they won’t be fixed until you can bring two glitches together on the board. Keep changing the puzzle to move these glitches towards each other, and they will be fixed in pairs as you connect two unconnected glitches to each other to complete a loop. Repeat until all of the glitches are gone.
That’s it! There are 50 levels. The first 30 go from easy to hard. Then the puzzles get smaller again and include more circle pieces which seem to be more difficult to work out. Good luck with all 50!
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