Spile Pull Pour

Dawn in the sugarbush. The maples are tapped, the troughs are strung, and the sap is ready to run — you just have to pull the spiles in the right order. Spile is a pull-the-pin sap-routing puzzle with a hook you can read in one screenshot: you don't aim a stream, you choose WHICH tap to pull. Every spile is a little pin holding one grade of sap. Pull it and that sap runs down the troughs under real gravity and pours into the pails below. Each pail wants exactly one grade — Golden, Amber, or Dark. Fill a pail to the brim and it SEALS with a wooden lid. The twist that turns it from a tap-toy into a puzzle is the murky SOUR sap, which must never touch a grade pail. Pull a sour tap over an open pail and the whole grove spoils. But a sealed pail's lid SHEDS anything poured onto it — so seal your grade pails FIRST, and only then pull the sour, and it rolls off the lid, off the edge of the…