Tinctorel

Tinctorel is a puzzle about painting coats of arms with the charges that sit on them. Each move you set a brace of two painted counters on a shield. Three like charges in a row or column lift away and leave their colour behind: lions and roses paint red, oaks and wyverns green, suns and crowns gold. Fill a whole line and every cell takes the colour of its own charge. Match the arms on the commission card before the satchel runs dry. The marches change the work. On the Or Coast some cells are already gilt. In the Sable Fen ink blots must be painted over, and cadency marks lift only when a neighbour resolves. In the Argent Keep the dove restores silver where earlier heralds painted wrong. At your own desk you can draw arms of your choosing, motto and all, and paint them to hang in the hall.