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Rune PyramidArcade

Rune Pyramid

Hop across floating shrines and wake every rune.

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About Rune Pyramid

Hop across a floating pyramid to wake every sleeping rune. Plan your route around the creatures sharing its cubes, and clear each shrine to climb higher.

How to play

Goal
Turn every rune on the pyramid gold.
How it ends
The pyramid is cleared when the last rune turns gold; the run is lost when the last of three lives is lost to a hop into the air, an ember orb, the serpent or a spider.
Record
For every pyramid, the ten best scores and the ten fastest clears, each proved by replaying the run.
  1. Tap a cube next to the rune-keeper to hop there, or press Q, E, Z, C (up-left, up-right, down-left, down-right); the arrow keys work too, turned a quarter: up is up-right.
  2. Every rune you land on wakes; the rule under the counters says whether one hop or two lights it, and whether landing on a lit rune turns it back.
  3. Dodge the orbs, the serpent and the spiders, stomp the pixies, ride a disc to lure the serpent off, and don't hop into the air.
Worked example for Rune Pyramid
Worked example. See how the rules apply to a real position.

Controls

InputAction
Tap a cubeHop there
Q · E · Z · CHop up-left, up-right, down-left, down-right (numpad 7 9 1 3)
Arrows · WASDThe same, turned: up is up-right, right is down-right
P · EscapePause (the run then counts as practice)
R · |◀Restart the pyramid

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Ranked results are checked by replaying your moves. Your bests stay in this browser.

Watch how to play

The rules, then The first pyramid played start to finish. Played by an automated player at a person's pace; the narration is a synthetic voice. English captions and chapters on YouTube.

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