Overview
butterfly-shimai dresses classic Onet link mechanics in gentle art and asks you to respect board health: open corridors, clear edges that spawn singletons, and match in ways that widen options rather than chase the nearest pair. The rules are familiar—connect two identical tiles with a path that bends at most twice—but success comes from editorial play. You scan for pairs that remove blockers, route links along the perimeter to preserve central space, and avoid sealing pockets with flashy clears that shorten future paths. Gravity and adjacency are quiet collaborators; when lanes open, more pairs appear. A calm cadence helps: edge repair first, corridor building second, then collect easy matches that spill into new routes. The palette is bright and readable, and tiny visual cues make scanning diagonals friendlier than in busy boards. When the midgame crowds, you resist panic; instead, you clear an awkward corner that has been generating singletons and the board breathes. Missteps are informative—stalled routes mean you collapsed the center too soon, lingering singles say edges need repair, and tight bends signal you should have preferred perimeter links. By the time the last wings flap together, the feeling is tidy satisfaction because structure, not luck, carried the round—and the garden looks curated rather than cleared.