✦ LANTERN BOX

A LITTLE LUCK. A CLEVER CHOICE.

Close the tiles.
Chase the zero.

A cozy table for a timeless dice puzzle.
Roll, find a sum, and shut the box.

Lowest total wins. Saved on this device.

ROUND 1 / 3

Your table

OPEN TILES45
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Two dice until 7, 8 & 9 are closed

Selected 0 → target —
YOUR NEXT MOVE · ROLL1–9 select · Space roll · Enter close

THE SCORECARD LOW IS LOVELY

WELCOME TO THE TABLE

Shut the Box

Roll, then select any open tiles whose numbers add up to the dice total. Close them and roll again. Each tile can be closed once.

  1. Use two dice while any of 7, 8 or 9 is open.
  2. Once all three are closed, this edition automatically uses one die.
  3. If no combination matches, the round ends. Open tiles add to your penalty.
  4. Close every tile for zero. Play three rounds; the lowest total wins. Two-player mode passes the device after each round.

Hints choose a move with the lowest expected final penalty using every possible future roll. Undo lets you revisit a closure. Guided practice is a fixed, one-round teaching sequence and does not set records.

SMALL GAME, OPEN ROOTS

Source & artwork

Adapted from Fields-And-Flows / shut-the-box-browser-game, MIT license. Subset enumeration and the sum-matching variant informed this edition. New interface, state engine, enforced turns, hints and saves.

Lantern-lit woodland tavern artwork generated using a GPT image model, bundled locally as tavern.webp. No remote services are used during play.

Read the MIT license and attribution

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