Sandfold

Sandfold questions and answers

What is Sandfold?

Sandfold is a rangoli puzzle game for Android. You hold a finger on a stencil and coloured powder pours, piles and spreads. Chalk lines hold the powder back only up to a height, every pot is limited, and a pour held too long spills into the next shape and muddies it.

What happens when powder spills?

Powder that crosses a chalk line lands in the next shape. If other colours make up more than 3 % of what a shape can hold, it is muddied and its chalk turns dashed. A spill is not the end: Undo gets that pour back, powder and all, or you can sweep and start again.

Can I run out of powder?

Yes. Each colour has its own limited pot, sized to what our planner needed to finish that stencil plus a margin of 5 to 30 %. If a pot runs dry while a shape still needs it, Undo gives the last pour’s powder back, or Sweep starts again with full pots.

How does mirror pour work?

From chapter 2 your pour is mirrored: four or six ways in the Mirror chapter, eight ways in Eight Ways and some Threshold stencils, and four ways in the rest of Threshold. One finger pours that many streams at once, all from the same pot, so a pour empties the pot faster and any spill is mirrored too.

What is the Daily rangoli?

The Daily rangoli is the same for everyone on the same date, going by the date on your phone. It is built on your phone, so it needs no internet. Finish it and it is laid in your courtyard, and Today then opens it there instead of starting a new pour.

What happens if I miss a day?

Nothing bad. A missed day is plain floor in your courtyard calendar, and you can tap any earlier day of the current month to pour its rangoli. Once the month ends, its missed days close. Sandfold has no streaks, no lives, no timers and no notifications.

When can I pour the Diwali set?

Any day. The Diwali set of ten rangolis is on the Today screen all year. In the Diwali days, from the day before Dhanteras to the day after Bhai Dooj by your phone’s date, it moves to the top, the app is dressed with lit diyas, and rangolis you finish then get a dated keepsake frame.

What is the courtyard?

Every rangoli you finish is laid at a doorstep in your courtyard with a lit diya. Finish every day of a month for a framed month doorway. Neat finishes earn a marigold garland. New floors open at 5, 15 and 30 finishes, and a brass diya at 60. You can share any rangoli as an image.

Are the patterns religious?

No. Sandfold uses geometric patterns only, built from dots, petals, lotuses, leaves, kolam dot grids and lamps. There are no deities, no religious symbols and no scripture to pour on. Every stencil and its name were reviewed before release. Diwali appears as a festival of lamps, with diyas and bunting.

Can I play Sandfold with TalkBack or a keyboard?

Yes. TalkBack names every shape, its colour and how full it is, and offers actions to pour a little or more into any shape, undo and sweep, with no gestures needed. A keyboard or D-pad moves between shapes and pours with Enter. Sound, vibration and reduced motion each have a switch.

Does Sandfold collect my data?

No. Sandfold has no ads, no account, no analytics and no internet permission, so the app cannot send anything to us or anyone else. Your courtyard, progress and settings are kept on your phone, and Android can include them in your own Google account backup and copy them to a new phone. Full details: Sandfold privacy policy.

Is Sandfold free?

Yes. Sandfold is free on Google Play, with no ads and no in-app purchases, so nothing in it is unlocked with money. All four chapters, the Daily rangoli and the Diwali set come with the app. It runs on Android phones with Android 8.0 or later, in portrait, and is in English only.

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