How to play
- Goal
- Shade one edge-connected night path; match each shield's knight-leap count and leave no solid 2×2 dark block.
- How it ends
- A chart clears as soon as its shaded cells satisfy every shield, connection and block rule; there is no loss.
- Record
- Only the fastest first solve of each chart is kept; replays are practice.
- Shade one path joined by shared edges. A pale shield counts shaded cells two rows and one column away, or two columns and one row away. The leap ignores cells between. Never fill a whole 2×2 block with dark cells.
- The worked picture shows a shield 2 in a corner. It reaches only two squares by L-shaped leaps, so both must be shaded. The finished path must also join by shared edges.
- Tap a free cell to shade it, then tap again to clear. Pale or right click makes an optional pale note. Tap a shield to highlight its L destinations and read its current count. Undo, Redo and Restart let you revise; Restart keeps the first clock running. There is no loss, and replays are practice.
Controls
| Tap / click a free cell | Toggle shade and clear |
|---|---|
| Pale / right click | Note a cell pale, if useful |
| Tap / click a shield | Highlight its knight destinations |
| Arrow keys | Move the cell focus |
| Enter / Space | Toggle the focused cell |
| W / S / Backspace | Shade, note pale, or erase |
| Z / Shift+Z / Undo / Redo | Reverse or restore a mark |
| Restart / R | Clear this chart while preserving its first clock |
| Escape | Close a panel or return to the atlas |
| Gamepad | Move focus, shade or note, undo, redo, and reach every panel |
All four shelves are open. Pale notes are optional, and the knight jumps over intervening cells. No answer key ships in the browser.
Watch how to play
About Nuranaito
Trace a dark path beneath an Orenvalt watchtower. Each pale shield counts shaded squares a chess knight could reach in a single L-shaped leap.
Explore 160 original charts across four open shelves. Every chart has one independently verified answer and a deduction path without guessing.
Your first solve time stays in this browser. An uninterrupted first finish may claim the named best beside the clock and on its chart card.
