Screwloose Cats: Tail Rescue

The screw-sorting puzzle format, applied to a rescue. Carriers are covered in layers of boards, plates and bolts; removing a bolt puts it in a tray slot, and identical colours in adjacent slots clear each other.

The tray is the whole game. It holds a fixed number, so pulling bolts in the wrong order fills it and ends the level — which means every removal is a bet on what the next layer exposes. Extra slots can be unlocked when a board gets away from you.

Levels are compact and restart instantly, which is the right shape for a puzzle where losing teaches you the order.

1. Look at which bolts are actually reachable.
2. Remove one and watch where it lands in the tray.
3. Clear pairs by putting matching colours side by side.
4. Strip every layer to open the carrier.

Before pulling a bolt, check what it is holding — the layer underneath decides whether your next three moves exist.