Rope Around Guide: Tips, Cheats and Strategies

Rope Around is an elegant one-touch puzzler where the aim of the game is to get your rope wrapped around all the pins in a level. Beware, it’s not as easy as it sounds.

There are levels where you will need to go in a certain order, and other levels with objects in the way. So, if you want to be the Rope Around King or Queen, follow these simple tips and the crown is yours.

Tips, Cheats and Strategies

• Leave the hardest until last. Once in a while, you will see a level where one pin is much harder to get than the others. Instead of wasting time trying to rope the hardest pin first, rope everything else and come back to this one at the end.

• Rope ‘Around’. This may not sound like a tip, but nobody says you have to put a rope around every single pin. If you wrap your rope around every pin except the last one, then all you need to do is walk into the last pin and it will light up.

• Ignore Symmetry. Some levels are purposely symmetrical to throw you off. You need not run your rope in the same direction to light up both sides. Ignore what you previously did and just try to light up the pins as if it was a new level.

• Remember to double wrap. Once you have lit up a pin, it doesn’t matter how many more times you wrap yourself around. You should use this to change the angle of your approach and move onto the next pin.

• Tension is everything. I am not saying gameplay is tense, instead think of your rope like a real section of a string. If it’s loose, then it will sag into an area you don’t want it to. So keep it taught and tight and wrap around pins in a certain way to maintain this tension.

Sam Simmons