Twist Fit

Twist Fit is a free shape puzzle game set in a sunlit white courtyard by the sea. A slot is cut into a limestone plinth, and the stone piece that belongs in it lies beside it: moved away, turned the wrong way and either too big or too small. Drag, twist and pinch the piece until it lines up with its slot, let go, and it clicks into place with a flash and a puff of stone dust. Then the next piece flies in. If you have been looking for a real pinch and rotate game or a quick fit the shape game with nothing to install, this is it.

Every gesture does one job. On a phone or tablet, put two fingers down anywhere: twist them and the piece turns by the same angle, spread or pinch them and it grows or shrinks, slide them together and it follows. One finger works too: on the piece it drags it, beside it it turns and resizes it. On a computer, drag a piece with the mouse, drag beside it to turn and resize it as if the mouse were your second finger, or hold Q and E to turn and W and S to resize. A dashed ghost of the piece inside its slot shows the turn and size you have now, and three lights, MOVE, TURN and SIZE, switch on as each one falls within tolerance. When all three are lit, let go to snap; line it up very precisely and it snaps in on its own.

The game is easy to start. The first three pieces each teach one move: drag the star into its slot, turn the triangle, resize the plus. Then the shapes get harder to read, from symmetric forms that fit several ways round, through two-way shapes like a bar and a bow, to one-way shapes like a house, an arrow and a heart. A strong run keeps finding something new: two pieces at once, each with its own slot, then mirror shapes such as an L and a J, an F or a flag that only fit one way up, then a sliding slot that moves left and right while you aim, and finally mirror twins, where you must tell a shape from its own reflection. The tolerances tighten with every round.

Each fit scores its base points, multiplied by a precision bonus of up to three times, plus a speed bonus for fitting it quickly. Letting go the moment the three lights turn on is fastest; taking a heartbeat longer to line it up perfectly earns a PERFECT grade and nearly triple the points. A run lasts 90 seconds, which makes Twist Fit one of our quick games and a sharp little workout among our brain games and puzzle games. Practise as often as you like, then press Ranked attempt to put your best run on the competitive leaderboards, where every top score is verified by replaying it on our servers.

Twist Fit plays on mobile and desktop. On a phone it is one of our multi-touch games, built around two fingers at once, and you will find it with the other mobile games. On a computer it is a proper PC game with the mouse and the keyboard, no touch screen needed. It runs in any modern browser, held in portrait on a phone, with nothing to download. For more games like it, browse our free online games with no download.