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Lamplighter

By Partech Systems

Turn the mirrors. Light the road.

A light-beam puzzle with a story. Turn the mirrors and light the road.

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Free
No account
No timer, no lives
Every street can be lit

The first puzzle in Lamplighter, an amber beam running from a hexagonal lantern across blue cobbles to a copper-ringed mirror, with an unlit lamp below

The Lamplighter title screen, an old man with a beard holding a lantern above a faded street with an amber beam, and buttons for the street of the day and the road

Why it’s different

A road of lamps

A story along the road

An old smith tells how, as a boy, he took the lamplighter's pole and lit the road from Haven to the Far Light. Six towns on a painted map, each with its own street of eight puzzles and a short story page when you arrive and when you light it.

Tap to turn, drag to slide

Tap a mirror and it turns a quarter of the way round. Later streets have lamps on brass rails that you drag into the beam. On a computer, use the mouse.

Each lamp lights the next

A street is eight short puzzles in a row. The lamp you light in one becomes the light that starts the next, so the whole street comes on lamp by lamp.

Prisms, glass and rails

Prisms split the beam in two. Ruby and jade glass colour it, and a coloured lamp only lights in its own colour. Every puzzle has a par, undo is free and so is starting again. There's a new street every day.

See it

Lamps to light

A puzzle on Wick Lane with one mirror ringed in amber and the words That mirror is at the right angle now — **Show me a mirror**One mirror turns to the right angle.

A puzzle on Hollow Oak Path with a square of ruby glass in the beam's path and a ruby lamp waiting to be lit — **Tinted glass**A ruby lamp needs a ruby beam.

A puzzle on The Brass Stacks, a lamp on a long brass rail that can be dragged up and down into the beam — **Brass rails**Slide a lamp into the light.

A lit lamp with three glowing lamps for lighting it in par, zero moves, and a Next lamp button — **Lit**In par, and on to the next lamp.

A painted map of a dark country with a pale road winding up past six towns, Emberfield and Gloamwood and Frostveil lit and Stormreach and Cinder Cathedral and The Unlit still dark — **The road**Six towns, from Emberfield to the Unlit.

A story page showing a painted boy lamplighter on a lane at night, and the words of Emberfield's closing scene — **The story**Pages when you reach a town and when you light it.

How it plays

Lamplighter is a light-beam puzzle with a story. An old smith tells how, as a boy of ten, he took the lamplighter's pole and lit the road from Haven to the Far Light, so that dark towns could remember each other. You do it with him: tap a mirror to turn it, and send the beam on to every lamp.

The road runs through six towns: Emberfield, Gloamwood, Frostveil, Stormreach, Cinder Cathedral and the Unlit. Each has a street of eight short puzzles. The lamp you light in one puzzle starts the beam in the next, so the street comes on lamp by lamp. Emberfield is mirrors only. Gloamwood brings prisms that split the beam and ruby and jade glass that colour it. In Frostveil some lamps slide along brass rails, and the last three towns mix everything.

Each mirror turn or slide is a move, and every puzzle has a par. There are 48 puzzles on the road, and a new street every day.

Tips

How to play well

Work back from the lamp
Ask which way the beam has to arrive at the lamp, then which mirror could send it that way.
Not every mirror matters
Some mirrors are only there to tempt you. If a mirror isn't on the beam's path, leave it alone.
Watch the colour
Once the beam goes through tinted glass, it stays that colour. Light the plain lamps before it does.

Questions

Asked and answered

Is Lamplighter free? Are there ads?

Yes, it's free to play in your browser. There are no ads while you're lighting a street and no banners. Your first ten puzzles have no ads at all; after that an ad may appear between puzzles, at most once every ten and never twice within five minutes. Show me a mirror is the only other ad, it plays only if you choose it, and the first three puzzles need no ad for it.

What does Show me a mirror do?

It turns one mirror to the angle the solution needs and rings it in amber.

How do I open more puzzles?

Light a lamp and the next puzzle opens. Light the last lamp on a street and the next street opens.

Where is my progress saved?

In your browser on this device. There's no account, and clearing the site's data deletes it.

Who tells the story?

Bram Holloway, an old smith, who carries Haven's lantern in our story game Lanternfall. In Lamplighter he tells the lantern how he lit the road as a boy. You do not need to know Lanternfall to play.

Can I skip the story pages?

Yes. Every page has a Skip button, and each one only plays the first time you reach it.