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Tangle Pop: Rubber Band Puzzle that reveals a picture
By Mei-Lin Chua
Contributing editor, apps and storefronts
- Hidden pictures uncovered one rubber band at a time
- Bands stay locked until the bands over them are gone
- Tap a free band to send it to its matching color tray
- Three matching bands fill a tray and clear it
- Holder keeps bands waiting when no tray matches
- Every band must be lifted to finish a level
What this color sort puzzle game is
Tangle Pop is a rubber band puzzle game for Android in which each board is a knot of colored bands that hides a picture. The listing names a fish, a cat, a cupcake and a car among the pictures. Each band you lift from the tangle reveals a little more of the image underneath.
The game is built on tapping and color matching, so it suits players who enjoy tap puzzles and sorting. It carries a PEGI 3 rating. The listing describes it as simple to start, with the difficulty building as bands pile up in layers.
Freeing bands from a tangle
Bands pass over and under each other, and a band can only be lifted when nothing sits on top of it at any crossing. Trying to lift a locked band does nothing, so the order you clear the board in matters. Working out which band to free next is the core puzzle.
When a band is free, a tap sends it flying to the color tray that matches it. Free bands are the only ones you can act on, so each tap changes which bands become available.
Trays, matching and the holder
Three bands of the same color fill a tray, and a full tray is sent away. If no tray matches a band you have just freed, that band waits in a holder. The holder has limited space, so letting it fill up is the main way to lose ground on a board.
The listing presents this as the central tension of the game: each tap has to balance clearing bands with leaving room in the holder for the ones that cannot yet be matched.
Completing levels and revealing the picture
A level is finished once every band has been lifted off the board. Clearing the tangle is what shows the full picture, so each completed level ends with the image it hid.
The listing says the tangles stack in layers as play goes on, which adds depth to the same basic moves.
About this APK
The build we hold is Tangle Pop: Rubber Band Puzzle 1.0.0 (APKS split bundle) for Android 7.1 and up.
- Version
- 1.0.0
- 62
- Requires Android
- 7.1+
- Target Android
- 16
- Package ID
- com.PlayBliss.TanglePop
- Format
- APKS split bundle
- Malware scan
- Google Play Protect
- Permissions
- 18 declared
- Signed by
- CN=Android, O=Google Inc.
- Certificate SHA-256
- 437b1e31582a30620cc3dd4a7faf3d642a65ead0a427d258d37f4af3de084adf