memory's shadow

Fold a silent cloth until its shadows tell you who is missing.

For the five to fifteen minutes between tasks or classes, at a desk or in a queue, with the sound off.

A square of cloth patterned with zellige and Amazigh motifs, folded once at the corner, on an orange and blue ground.
Free at launch

Chapter One

12 boards · about an hour

See a sample board

How it plays

  1. A flat square of patterned cloth on a yellow ground with an orange half circle.

    Open the cloth

    A flat square of zellige and Amazigh patterns

  2. A patterned cloth folded along a diagonal crease on an orange ground.

    Fold it

    You only fold. No character to move

  3. Three person silhouettes in a row with a dotted outline where one is missing.

    Read the shadows

    They show who is missing

A sample board

Sample

Fold once, read the shadows

Silent · drawn here as a sample, not a live board

Sample: the dotted outline is the one who is missing.

What is in the cloth