Let the light find a way.

A light bending puzzle game in forgotten halls. Turn the instruments. Awaken the stone.

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The silent gate

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Simple tools. Surprising combinations.

Learn reflection, refraction, and prism dispersion by moving things around. The light gives you the answer.

Mirrors & reflection

Turn a beam around an obstacle by changing a mirror’s angle.

Lenses & focus

Bring a wide beam together or spread it across a larger area.

Prisms & dispersion

Refract white light and discover the different colors within it.

Splitters, filters & apertures

Divide energy, select colors, and decide where light is allowed to go.

A light bending puzzle game with room to experiment.

Three free chambers. A whole observatory to rediscover.

Prism Riddle is an optical puzzle game about making a route, not just finding the right angle. A lamp casts a finite-width beam through a stone chamber. Your instruments can turn it, gather it, separate its colors or divide its energy. The goal is to awaken the gate lenses while respecting the obstacles and the requirements of every target.

There is no fixed grid to dictate your answer. Mirrors, lenses and prisms move through continuous space, and the light reacts to every change. A promising route might fail because the beam is too wide for an opening, a splitter leaves a branch too weak, or a colored gate receives too much of the wrong wavelength. Each failure gives you something specific to investigate.

Start with a real challenge

The first chamber already combines five instruments, several changes of direction, a focused beam and a color requirement. Basic tool explanations are available beside the scene, so the formal puzzles can focus on combinations. The first three chambers are free: a mirror route, a two-lens relay and a complete prism-dispersion puzzle.

The current collection has 12 original chambers, with larger scenes and more demanding combinations later on. Some have two lamps; others require several colored gates to light together while nearby lenses stay dark. More chambers are planned as the observatory grows.

Mirror puzzles: carry the route around the stone

A mirror preserves the light's colors while changing its direction. Its position decides which part of a beam it can catch. In a larger mirror puzzle, each turn affects all the turns after it, so a useful solution comes from coordinating the route across several chambers.

Lens puzzles: choose where the light becomes narrow

A convex lens can bring parallel rays together. A concave lens spreads them, or changes a beam that is already converging. Put two lenses together and their spacing becomes part of the puzzle. The useful point is not always the brightest-looking point: it is where the gate or passage needs the beam to fit.

Prism puzzles: make color part of the route

A prism bends different wavelengths by different amounts, revealing the spectrum in white light. A mirror can redirect that spectrum and a filter can select part of it. Color filtering also removes energy, so the final gate needs both the right color and enough of it.

Play an optical puzzle online, at your own pace

Start in a modern browser without installing a game client. Use a mouse, touch controls, the keyboard or numeric adjustments. Full-screen mode puts the chamber in view; undo and redo help you compare experiments. There is no countdown. Your active play time and personal best are recorded when you complete a chamber.

Share a discovery, keep your own progress

Finishing a chamber opens a clear result dialog with your time, next-chamber navigation and social sharing options. A challenge link takes a friend to the same chamber. Completed levels, layouts and personal bests stay in your current browser, ready when you return.

For the joy of figuring it out.

Prism Riddle is a browser-based physics puzzle game about arranging optical tools. There is no countdown and no single correct layout. Try an idea, watch the light, and follow what you discover.

Looking for games like Prism Rules?

If you enjoy experimenting with light in Prism Rules, start with three free chambers from our twelve-puzzle collection and explore the free workshop. Prism Riddle is an independent game with its own levels. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Prism Rules.

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How do I play?

Drag a tool into the light. Select it and turn its round handle, or use the angle slider. Light every receiver to the stated energy and color requirements. Crossed receivers must stay dark. Hints are always available.

Will my progress be saved?

Your completed experiments and puzzle layouts are saved in this browser on this device. No account is needed. Clearing browser storage also clears your progress.

How does the light simulation work?

A finite-width beam is sampled across 27 wavelengths. Mirrors reflect, prisms refract, and lenses use a thin-lens approximation. Splitters divide energy and filters absorb unwanted wavelengths. This is a geometric optics playground; interference, diffraction and polarization are not simulated.

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Three free chambers to begin. Your completed chambers and personal bests are recorded here.

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