Minga Chilota

Minga Chilota is a physics puzzle about the minga de tiradura of Chiloé, Chile — the old tradition where neighbours move a whole wooden house to a new plot. Oxen drag it down a muddy beach on log rollers, it floats across the channel on barrels behind a fishing boat, and it is hauled up the far shore before the tide comes back. Your job is to keep the house level the whole way, from the first heave to the last wedge. Every move is a small, readable physics problem. On bare mud the house will not budge, so you lay rollers ahead of the skids. When the beach steepens you wedge the low end. You choose how many yokes of oxen pull: more yokes move her further but tire faster, and too many rollers on a steep beach let her run away. At sea, the barrel layout against the heavy stove end sets how she lists, and you hold the ropes against wind gusts and swell. Tilt past a few degrees and the painted shingles shake loose. Every heave, wedge and rest costs minutes of tide, so a good plan matters more than quick fingers. Minga Chilota also gives you a reason to come back each morning: today's minga uses today's tide at Castro and the real wind there, from MET Norway. Keep a daily streak, cook a curanto with what the families bring so your next crew pulls harder, and watch the village fill with the houses you moved. You can pause between moves, study the slope and try again — the only thing that never waits is the tide. Features: • Eight mingas on real routes between Castro, Nercón, Dalcahue, Curaco de Vélez, Achao, Villa Quinchao and Isla Llingua • Drag-and-drop rollers and wedges, ox teams that tire, and a tide clock that never waits • A sea crossing with wind gusts, swell, barrel layouts and rope crews • A daily minga built from today's Castro tide and live wind, with a streak to keep • A two-week tide calendar with an optional low-tide reminder • Curanto layering: shellfish, meat, milcao and chapalele, then nalca leaves — a good curanto makes the next crew pull harder • A village map where you can repaint moved houses with colours taken from your own photo (camera or gallery) • Don Lucho, the mestre carpenter, calls every move in Chilote Spanish with an English line • Works offline with the last saved wind when you have no connection Minga Chilota: move the house, save the shingles, feed the crew.

First release.