Instructions
Tile Temple
Peel a pyramid of carved tiles by matching free pairs of the same glyph. Every board is dealt solvable; the clock and your streak decide the score.
- Year
- 1986
- Era
- Golden Arcade
- Genre
- Puzzle / Tile Matching
Free, no sign-up. Keyboard, touch or gamepad.
How to play
- Click two free tiles with the same glyph.
- Free means nothing on top and one side open.
- Arrows + Space also work; B hints (-15 s), Enter shuffles (once per board).
- P to pause.
On touch
- Tap two free tiles.
- Tap HINT or SHUFFLE at the bottom.
Every run starts on the title screen. Pause any time with P or the pause button; calm mode removes flashes and screen shake.
Maker’s note
Tile-matching solitaire in a torch-lit temple, with our own carved glyphs (eight shapes in three colours, plus pips for the colour-blind). Boards are generated by playing the game backwards, so a solution always exists, though not every path to it does. Five minutes on the clock, twenty seconds back for every board you clear.
The Eracade workshop
Target scores
- 13,000
- 28,000
- 315,000
- 425,000
- 540,000
- 660,000
- 785,000
- 8120,000
Each target is a step up. Beat them all and you have outplayed the workshop.
The Golden Arcade era, 1983–1989
Neon on black, chunky sprites and a pocket full of coins: short runs, high scores, one more go.
High scores
The top ten runs are saved in this browser with your three initials. Nothing is uploaded unless you submit a ranked run, so clearing site data clears the table.
