Glorious Lights

It's time to spread some Christmas cheer by wiring up all your holiday lights!

• On each level you must wire up all the bulbs in a single loop.
• The wire goes straight through each bulb, never round a corner
• The colour of the bulbs along the wire must be a repeating pattern

e.g. 🔴🟠🟡🔴🟠🟡 ✅ and not 🔴🟠🔴🟡🟠🟡 ❌

Controls

• Use direction buttons 🔼🔽◀️▶️ to move Santa's hand around the grid.
• Hold C while moving to draw or remove wire
• Hold X while pushing a direction to place a mark to help you remember where wire cannot go.

In the pico-8 menu (press P), you can turn on and off the music, a reduced motion mode where the lightbulbs do not sparkle during the game, and a colourblind accessible mode where the lightbulbs are marked with letters as well their colours.

Credits

Code, graphics and music arrangement by @shadowphiar 

except loop generation which is adapted from Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection 

Original music by Keith & Kristyn Getty and Ian Hannah

Written for the wonderful PICO-8 Advent Calendar 2025

PICO-8 is a fantasy console and development environment by Lexaloffle games. CRT effect template by carlc27843 using a filter by Mathias_G