About

Rewire is a logic puzzle game from the JS13K competition about reconnecting severed circuit paths. You're presented with a grid of nodes and broken connections; your task is to draw paths between nodes so that every connection is restored without paths crossing each other. It's a flow-routing puzzle that rewards spatial reasoning.

The constraints are tight — every path must connect its designated endpoints, and paths cannot share grid squares. Early levels feel intuitive; later levels require thinking about how routing one path blocks another, forcing you to reconsider your entire approach.

Clean, quiet, and completable in minutes — Rewire is the kind of puzzle that clears your head rather than filling it.

How to Play

• Click and drag from one colored node to its matching colored endpoint to draw a path.
• Paths cannot cross each other or share grid squares.
• All nodes must be connected and all grid squares filled to complete a level.
• Click an existing path to erase it and reroute.

Tips

• Start with the most constrained paths — those with fewest possible routes.
• If you're stuck, erase everything and start from the corners inward.
• Paths that must pass through tight corridors should be routed first.

History

Rewire is part of the flow/pipe-routing puzzle genre popularized by the mobile game Flow Free (2012), which itself built on earlier Flash puzzle games. Circuit and wire-routing puzzles have a long history in both recreational mathematics and engineering training. The JS13K version strips the concept to its minimum viable form — pure logic, no decoration.