The Seven Families

every leaf is drawn from one of seven hands

Each floor of the tower holds puzzles from seven families of logic — each with its own quiet rule to uncover. Here they are, one sample apiece.

Echo

sounding chart, twins effaced

Every mark hides one identical twin — the same count of pips, exactly that many cells away, in any of the eight directions (straight or diagonal). Fill the chart so every mark has its one twin.

The Ledger

reckoner’s table, figures effaced

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Each line follows one hidden progression — a sum of the two before, a swelling multiple, the squares. Read it, and restore the figures the damp has effaced.

The Fault

strata survey, beds unsized

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Fracture the ground into beds sized by their number; no two beds of a like measure may share an edge.

The Loop

coast survey, shore lost

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Raise one unbroken wall from the tallies — a single closed ring that never branches or crosses. Each figure counts the wall along its plot.

The Runes

stone-rubbing, sigils worn

Three sigils; three hidden laws — one each. A sigil may shun its kind (never touch it), keep one twin (exactly one beside it), or cluster (two or more). Read from the ringed given marks which sigil keeps which law, then fill the worn stones.

The Aquifer

water-table chart, pools lost

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Sound the ground for its hidden pools — each dry stone is carved with its distance to the nearest water.

The Meadows

enclosure plat

Wall the hedgerows so no field touches its like — three marks stand for three hidden measures, one, two, three.

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