Light The Lamp Game

Light the Lamp is a physics puzzle about one simple job: get an electric plug into its socket. Each level drops the plug and its target into a small enclosed space full of things that get in the way, and you nudge and rotate the plug through the gap without letting it snag on a spinning saw blade along the route.

The puzzle is in the movement, not in the plug itself. Pushing the plug swings and turns it like a pendulum, so lining it up with the socket usually means over- or under-shooting a few times before you find the angle that threads it through cleanly. Levels are unlocked one at a time from a level-select screen, and later ones tighten the space around the socket and add more blades to dodge.

Controls

• Arrow keys or WASD to move the plug
• On touchscreens, on-screen arrow buttons replace the keys

Tips

• Small taps of a direction key control the swing better than holding it down
• Watch a saw blade's full rotation before committing to a path past it
• If a level feels stuck, back the plug off and re-approach the socket from a different angle rather than forcing the same line again

It plays in short bursts — a level rarely takes more than a minute or two — which makes it an easy game to pick up for a few tries between things.