Fold: a calm origami-style folding puzzle
Fold is a quiet little logic puzzle about paper. A picture has been cut into pieces and scattered across a creased sheet, and your job is to fold the sheet until the picture is whole again. Tap a crease and the smaller flap folds over, carrying its pieces with it. Some arrive exactly where they belong. Some land on their neighbours. And some arrive back to front, because folding paper reflects it, which is the thing that makes this harder than it looks.
It is the kind of puzzle you can dip into for one quick level or lose half an hour to, with a soft, papery feel and no timer rushing you. There is a small picture of the finished figure in the corner, so you always know what you are building towards.
How to play
Tap a crease line and the smaller side of the paper folds over onto the larger side, just like folding a real sheet. Everything on that flap, paper and picture alike, flips over and lands on the layer beneath. Keep folding until every piece is home and the right way round.
- Fold: tap or click any crease line. The smaller flap always folds over onto the rest of the sheet.
- Home: a piece counts only when it is in the right square and the right way round. A mirrored piece is a wrong piece, and the board says so.
- Undo: made a fold you regret? Step back one fold at a time.
- Restart: unfold the whole sheet and start the level fresh.
- Hint: stuck? It plays the next fold of a known solution for you.
Assemble the whole picture and the level is complete. Your progress and score are saved automatically, so you always pick up where you left off.
Why it gets clever
Every fold reflects part of the paper, so a piece that has been folded an odd number of times arrives mirrored. The pieces are laid out already mirrored by exactly the amount their journey will undo, which is why the flat sheet looks scrambled on purpose: the correct sequence of folds cancels the reflections out, and a wrong one leaves a piece facing the wrong way.
That is also what gives Fold something to lose. You are never merely unfinished here. A bad fold stacks two pieces in one square or lands one back to front, and you can see at a glance that you have broken it. As you climb the levels the picture is cut into more pieces and the sheet takes more folds to resolve.
Tips
- Check the small picture in the corner first. Knowing the shape you are building tells you which piece belongs where.
- A mirrored piece is not a near miss, it is wrong. If a piece lands back to front, the fix is usually earlier in the sequence, not later.
- Plan a couple of folds ahead. Track where a piece will travel, not just where it is now.
- Do not be afraid to Undo. Fold is about experimenting, and stepping back costs you nothing.
Frequently asked questions
Is Fold free? Yes, completely free to play, with no account or download, in any modern browser on phone, tablet or desktop.
Does it work on mobile? Yes. Fold is built for touch as well as mouse, so it plays the same way on a phone as it does on a desktop.
How do I win? Fold the paper until every piece of the picture is back in place and the right way round. That solves the level and moves you to the next one.
Why do some pieces look mirrored? Because folding paper reflects it. That is the central trick of the puzzle, not a mistake: the right fold sequence turns those pieces back the correct way.
Is every level solvable? Yes. Each level is generated by folding a real sheet and recording what happened, so a solution always exists.
Stuck? Read the Fold strategy guide
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