Calypso Instructions
1. How it works
2. Valuation
3. First Tips
1. How it works
Calypso is a game in which you totally have to cover various boards with pieces of different forms.
The falling pieces will be placed by clicking a field of the board.
Click into the field on which the marked field of the piece shall be placed.
On the left you can see all Calypso pieces. Each piece has a marked field (not shown on the left).
You cannot change the marking. The falling pieces cannot be rotated.
Each board is divided into areas. Connected fields of the same color form an area.
When an area is totally covered with pieces, it will be released from the pieces
and the color of the area changes to yellow or orange. Now the area can be covered again.
As soon as all areas have been released once, the level increases and the next board is shown.
Black fields cannot be covered.
You can see all Calypso boards below.
The game is finished, if ten pieces could not be placed within a level.
There are 10 different speeds. The speed of the falling pieces increases every 70 seconds.
The tenth speed is the maximum speed.
The game can be interrupted, whenever you want, but the number of not placed pieces
within the level you are playing at that time increases by one. If you solve one level,
the number of unplaced pieces goes back to 0.
2. Valuation
Valuations:
a placed piece:
1 to 3 points (depending on the number of fields of the piece) * level
one released area:
10 points * the number of fields of the area * level
one solved level:
500 points * level
Areas can be released multiple times and the points for that can be pocketed just so often!
But it's clever to cover all areas only once, to get to the next level faster.
The higher the level, the more points you can get.
3. First Tips
- Place your pieces so that the remainig free area provides room for as much as possible
different forms of pieces.
- It is disadvantageous if you produce many islands of small free areas. In particular it is difficult
to stuff holes at the borders.