Celtix

What is Celtix?

Celtix begins with a beautiful tangle of interwoven ribbons and twenty colored pips scattered across them. Your mission is to reorganize the knot so that every pip of the same color ends up travelling around one shared ribbon.

You do not move the pips directly. Instead, you place walls at ribbon crossings, forcing the strands to bounce and reconnect in a different way. A single click can split one giant knot into smaller loops, combine distant markers, or trap incompatible colors together.

Celtix Game Rules (The Catch / The Trap)

The board contains interwoven ribbons, colored pips, and crossings where walls may be placed.

INTERWOVEN RIBBONS → ADD WALLS → REROUTE STRANDS → SEPARATE COLORS

To solve the puzzle:

• All pips of one color MUST belong to the same ribbon.
• A completed ribbon CANNOT contain pips of another color.
• Every ribbon in the finished knot must contain at least one pip.
• Click a crossing to add a wall and make the ribbons bounce away from it.
• Click an existing wall again when you need to remove or reconsider it.
• Use Undo, Redo, or Reset when a sequence paints the knot into a corner.

A simplified crossing behaves like this:

NO WALL: ribbons continue through the crossing

WITH WALL: ribbons bounce and follow different partners

Suppose one ribbon currently carries:

🔵 🟢 🔵 🟢

Adding the correct wall may divide it into:

Ribbon A: 🔵 🔵

Ribbon B: 🟢 🟢

That is progress—but every wall affects the larger knot. A move that completes the blue ribbon may accidentally merge red and yellow elsewhere.

Typical puzzles require roughly 12–20 walls, and the wall total gives you an efficiency target after the colors have been separated.

How To Play Celtix?

1. Choose one colored pip.
   Player Focuses On: a blue pip near the upper-left crossing.
   What You Learn: following its ribbon reveals another blue pip, but a green pip is caught between them.

2. Place an experimental wall.
   Click the crossing beside the green pip.
   Game Response: the ribbons bounce, separating the green marker from one section of the blue route.

3. Trace the new knot.
   Current Ribbon: 🔵 → crossing → 🔵 → 🔵
   Result: all blue pips now share one ribbon, so the completed loop is highlighted.

4. Watch for collateral damage.
   Problem: the same wall has placed one red pip onto the yellow ribbon.
   Next Move: undo the wall or add another barrier farther along the weave to redirect the red strand.

5. Finish every color.
   Continue adding and removing walls until each ribbon carries exactly one pip color.
   Result: COLORS SEPARATED | EVERY RIBBON USED | KNOT COMPLETE.

Celtix Strategy & Tips

Begin with one pip and trace its ribbon until you find another marker of the same color. Place one or two walls that bring those matching pips together, then follow the changed route before making another move.

Work color by color, but never treat a completed ribbon as permanently safe. Later walls can reconnect it to another part of the knot, so check highlighted loops after every major change.

Use fewer walls when possible, but solve the structure before chasing efficiency. A messy successful knot can be refined; a beautifully economical arrangement containing mixed colors is still defeated.

Celtix also includes alternative color schemes that distinguish pips through numbers or shapes, making the puzzle playable without relying entirely on color recognition.