How a lookout counts
Stand at the end of a street and look along it. A taller house hides every shorter house behind it, so the lookout only sees the roofs that rise above everything in front. That number is painted on their sign. Every row and column holds each height exactly once, and the signs decide the order.
Hold any sign in the game and the roofs its lookout can see light up, so a hunch can be checked before the last house goes in.
Four building codes
The town hall changes the rules as the streets climb the hill.
Lookout
Signs count the rooftops seen from that end.
Roofline Sum
Signs add up the storeys of every house that can be seen.
Garden Lots
One garden per row and column. Gardens hide nothing.
Stepped Street
Arrows between neighbours point down to the shorter house.
A town that grows up the hill
Nine streets, from the harbour wall to the summit. Each built lot can light three windows: built, built without a plumb line, and built inside the permit time. Every block has exactly one way to stand.
- Pebble Lanesmall four-wide blocks by the harbour
- Baker's Rowfewer signs, the first five-wide blocks
- Bluebell Crescentthinning signs
- Canal Walkstoreys added up instead of roofs
- Orchard Closea garden in every row
- Clocktower Squaresix-wide, codes mixed
- Harbour Stepsarrows on the slope
- Weavers' Hillevery code, six and seven wide
- Summit Terraceseven-wide blocks at the top
Around Main Street
Post Office
The weekly Open House: one seven-wide block that every builder in town gets that week.
Drafting Studio
Pick a code, a width and a grade, and a fresh block is drawn up on the spot.
Hardware & Paint
Shingles earned on site buy new house styles, skies and a few helpful tools.
Locksmith
Twenty brass keys for feats around town, and a board of your fastest builds.
Ridgely, the pigeon foreman in the yellow hard hat, walks every new builder through a three-wide practice lot first.