Plumber World

Plumber World casts you as the master plumber of a fantasy world, and its lands keep calling on you to build their water systems. The work comes down to pipes. Each piece can be turned around, and the task is to turn them until water from the reserve runs along an unbroken line to everything on the screen that needs it.

The developer is specific about the customers: public fountains, houses, lakes and swimming pools. Joining the pipes up also deals with the leaks in the network, and once the plumbing is complete the water starts to flow through it. No level count is given, though the developer warns that finishing every level calls for some real thinking. Compared with abstract grid puzzles of the same type, the draw here is the setting, with a whole map of places waiting for a supply.

Turn the pipe pieces to change the direction they point. Line them up so there is a continuous route from the water reserve to each place that is waiting for water, which can be a fountain, a house, a lake or a swimming pool. When every destination is connected, the network fills and the job is done.

Every route has to begin at the water reserve, so start there and follow the pipes outward. Before turning anything, count the places that need water on the current screen. That way you know when the job is really finished and can check that no fountain, house, lake or pool has been left dry.

A pipe-rotation puzzle with a fantasy setting. Portrait frame (600 by 800). Pipes are turned to connect a water reserve to public fountains, houses, lakes and swimming pools. The developer gives no level count.

Sea Plumber 2 sets the same pipe-turning task under the ocean, running water from valves to containers, while Jungle Plumber Challenge 3 asks you to rotate pipes until every jungle fountain has water.