Chapter 1 Walkthrough: Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home is the opening chapter and spans the first twenty puzzles. It works as a quiet tutorial: each level adds one new way of thinking, from fixing a crooked frame to reading the carving on a pencil. Use this guide to check a single stubborn level or to collect every star the chapter offers, including three hidden achievements.
Contents
All twenty puzzles in one table
Use the table to find your level quickly. The last column shows how many stars a puzzle holds; a number above one means there is more than one accepted arrangement, and you will need all of them for the chapter completion achievement.
| # | On screen | Goal in brief | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A single framed cat | Level the frame | 1 |
| 2 | Scattered toys and a basket | Put them all away | 1 |
| 3 | Grey pencils in a holder | Pale to dark, perfectly vertical | 1 |
| 4 | A handful of paper notes | Join the drawn line | 1 |
| 5 | A gallery wall | Level every picture | 1 |
| 6 | Loose sheets of paper | One pile, biggest underneath | 1 |
| 7 | A short shelf of books | By height, or by thickness | 2 |
| 8 | Console cartridges | One neat vertical column | 1 |
| 9 | Envelopes with stamps | Extend each stamp sequence | 1 |
| 10 | A board of paper notes | Join the line across a grid | 1 |
| 11 | Coloured pins, potted plants | Pins per pot equals berries | 1 |
| 12 | A wall calendar | Keep the sticker rhythm | 1 |
| 13 | Decorated books | Joined pattern, or a valley shape | 2 |
| 14 | Pictures hung askew | Turn the scenes upright | 1 |
| 15 | Pink notes on a board | Join the line, leave blanks | 1 |
| 16 | Coloured pencils in a cup | Tips, erasers or spectrum | 3 |
| 17 | A cluttered desk | Cover the desk without gaps | 1 |
| 18 | A colourful bookcase | Spectrum, or stripe position | 2 |
| 19 | Used pencils and shavings | Length, or grooves in the wood | 2 |
| 20 | A turntable | Lamps lit, needle on the clean groove | 1 |
Puzzles 1 to 10
Level 1: The Tilted Portrait
Hold the frame and turn it bit by bit. When it reaches a true horizontal, a gentle sound confirms it. That sound is your most reliable tool for the rest of the game; your eyes will often tell you something is level before the game agrees.
Level 2: Toy Basket
Every toy goes into the basket and the order is irrelevant. Among them is a toy built from one ball trapped inside another. Grab that one and keep shaking it to unlock a hidden achievement. Do this while at least one toy is still outside, since filling the basket finishes the puzzle immediately.
Level 3: Shades of Grey
Look at the tiny markings above the holder: they show the order. Place the palest pencil first and the darkest last, and check that none of them leans even slightly. A tilted pencil is the usual reason this level does not end.
Level 4: Line on Paper
Fragments of one drawing are spread over several notes. Lay them next to each other until the line runs from one note to the next without a break. A note on which the line leaves through a single side marks one end of the drawing, which gives you a starting point.
Level 5: Gallery Wall
A whole wall of crooked pictures. Several of them are off by only a degree or two, so go through them one at a time and wait for the sound on each.
Level 6: Paper Pile
Make one stack with the biggest sheet at the bottom and the smallest on top. Compare the total surface of each sheet; a tall, narrow page can beat a wide, short one.
Level 7: First Bookshelf 2 solutions
- Star one: arrange the books by how tall they are.
- Star two: arrange them by how thick their spines are.
This is the chapter’s first puzzle with a second answer. Reopen it from the menu right after finishing and apply the other rule.
Level 8: Cartridge Column
Line the cartridges up into a single straight stack. The sides must match exactly, so make very small adjustments once they are almost in place.
Level 9: Stamp Sequences
Each envelope begins a series of stamps, and the spare stamps continue those series. If you seem to be missing a stamp, move the envelopes aside; a few are tucked underneath. Here the cat makes its first grab for your things, and clicking its paw in time earns a hidden achievement.
Level 10: Note Grid
The idea from Level 4 returns on a grid. Fix the corners, then the borders, and complete the centre last so the drawing flows over every note.
Puzzles 11 to 20
Level 11: Pins and Berries
Sort the pins by colour and count each group. A group of three belongs in the pot whose plant carries three berries, a group of five in the pot with five, and so on.
Level 12: Calendar Rhythm
Check the gaps between the stickers that are already on the page. Repeat that spacing until the month is filled. When two kinds of sticker share the page, give each kind its own spacing.
Level 13: Decorated Spines 2 solutions
- Star one: place the books so the ornament along their lower spines becomes a single continuous band.
- Star two: put the lowest book in the centre and raise the heights step by step towards both sides, so the tops form a valley.
Level 14: Askew Pictures
The trick is that the frames are not the problem; the scenes painted inside them are. Turn each frame until what is shown in the picture stands straight, even if the frame itself then looks crooked. The window for success is small, so rotate slowly.
Level 15: Pink Board
Another drawn line spread over notes on a board, but some board spaces stay empty in the finished picture. Assemble the line first and only then decide which spaces need nothing at all.
Level 16: Pencil Cup 3 solutions
- Star one: from the bluntest point to the sharpest.
- Star two: from the most worn eraser to the least worn.
- Star three: by colour, following the spectrum.
Three answers in one puzzle also counts towards the achievement for solving a level three ways.
Level 17: Desk Packing
The desk has to be fully covered, with no overlapping items and no visible wood. Start with the largest and oddest shapes along the borders and keep the smallest pieces for the last holes.
Level 18: Colourful Bookcase 2 solutions
- Star one: a smooth colour transition along the shelf.
- Star two: order by where the stripe sits on each spine, from the highest stripe to the lowest.
Level 19: Worn Pencils 2 solutions
- Star one: from the longest pencil to the shortest.
- Star two: by the pattern carved into the wood, going from soft curls to sharp zigzags.
Clear the shavings first by dragging them past the bottom of the screen; that is the trigger for a hidden achievement.
Level 20: Turntable
Rotate the dials until each small lamp above them lights up. Then place the needle on the second groove, the only one free of scratches. Music plays and the chapter closes.
Achievements you can earn here
| Achievement | Trigger | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Home Sweet Home | Reach the end of the chapter | 20 |
| Guests Coming Over | Earn every star in the chapter | 7, 13, 16, 18, 19 |
| Fun for Humans Too | Shake the double-ball toy | 2 |
| Bad Kitty | Click the paw in time | 9 or any later paw |
| Sweep Them On The Floor | Dump the shavings before sorting | 19 |
| Seeing In A New Light | Find a second answer to any puzzle | 7 at the earliest |
| Triple Threat | Find three answers to one puzzle | 16 at the earliest |
Thinking about a spotless run?Two achievements are awarded only if the whole campaign is completed with zero hints and zero skipped levels. That decision has to be made before Level 1. Everything you need to know is in our guide to the clean run.
Lessons to take into Chapter 2
- Wait for the sound. A puzzle that looks done but stays open almost always needs a tiny nudge somewhere.
- Collect stars immediately. Empty star slots on the level menu show what is left, and filling them now is quicker than a big cleanup at the end.
- Move things to look beneath them. Level 9 starts a long tradition of pieces hidden under other objects.
- Count the small stuff. Erasers, points, stripes and grooves all serve as sorting rules. When the obvious order fails, the answer is in a detail you have not yet compared.
The kitchen awaits in our guide to Chapter 2. Prefer to test these tips yourself first? Open the game here and start with the tilted portrait.
