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A slab of marble waits on the table, and a row of chalked outlines waits beside it. Your job in this game is to turn one into the other, using nothing but straight chisel cuts and a steady eye. Drag a cut across the slab and it splits in two. Each piece that appears is labelled with its share of the whole slab, so you can always read exactly what you have made — a half, a third, a slender sliver — and judge what still needs dividing. Keep cutting until every piece left on the table matches one of the target outlines chalked at the side. Nothing extra may remain; nothing may be missing. The pleasure is in the planning rather than the speed. Each level hands you a limited number of cuts, so a careless first stroke can cost you the whole arrangement. Dark veins run through the stone and cannot be crossed, which means the obvious line is often the wrong one and the route to a clean split has to be found around them. You will find yourself looking at the slab for a while before touching it, tracing the cut in your head, working backwards from the outlines to the one opening stroke that makes the rest possible. From level 10 onward the chalk board stops being wholly honest. Decoy outlines are mixed in among the real targets, shapes that look perfectly plausible and simply are not wanted. Reading the board becomes part of the puzzle: you must decide which outlines you are actually working towards before you commit a single cut to the stone. There are 13 levels in all, and they tighten gradually — first the cut budget, then the veins, then the decoys — so that the last few ask you to hold the whole plan in mind at once. Nothing is timed and nothing is hurried. You can sit with a slab, undo your thinking, and try the cut another way. Quiet, tactile and entirely about the geometry in front of you: one slab, a handful of cuts, and the satisfaction of the final piece dropping into place.

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