Zhyly Dastarkhan: Pairs

Guests are coming at six. It is half past four, and the table is still empty. Zhyly Dastarkhan is a puzzle about how a Kazakh family lays the table before guests arrive. Match identical tiles in pairs, cook dishes by recipe and carry them to the dastarkhan — the spread that makes a house ready for people. Grandmother will hint, auntie will cover tiles with napkins "against the dust", Alikhan will leave his toy boxes around, and uncle will drop in "just to taste". ONE HUNDRED LEVELS Every level has its own dish: tea, baursaks, manty, beshbarmak, plov, a sweet table. The recipe sits in the panel: which tiles to clear for the dish to be ready. Some levels are timed — clear them quickly for three stars. The hundredth level is the big table, where all 32 kinds of tiles come together. THE FREE TABLE Tables without end. Here pairs do not vanish, they turn into something else: flour and water become dough, dough and salt become a finished dish. How many guests will you seat before the moves run out? WHAT IS IN THE GAME • 32 kinds of tiles: teapot, kurt, apricots, kazan, baursaks, beshbarmak • Napkins, boxes and sticky dough — obstacles you have to clear • Seven gravity modes: tiles settle down, sideways or toward the center • Four relatives, each with a temper and a story of their own • Pair streaks: clear fast and grandmother approves — and adds seconds • 5 hints and 3 shuffles every day • Dombra in the background, every tile with a sound of its own • English, Kazakh and Russian NO INTERNET NEEDED The whole game lives on your phone: it works on a plane, in the metro and in the village. The internet is only for ads, and an ad plays only when you press the button yourself — for a hint, a shuffle or half a minute of time. No banners over the board. Stuck with no network? Once per table grandmother helps for free. Played with one hand, in short sittings. Sit down to the table.