Quarry

Quarry is a pursuit puzzle dressed as deduction, and its twist is that looking and moving are the same act. A single target hides somewhere on the grid; you tap a cell to probe, and the probe tells you how many king-steps away the quarry is — while simultaneously spooking it one cell directly away from you. That dual nature is everything: you are not reading a static map like minesweeper, you are tracking a live thing that flees on a known rule. Because the only random part is where it starts, every reading narrows the cells it could be on, and the next probe should split those possibilities rather than chase it. A wall can pin it in place, since it never hops off the board, but a pin narrows nothing on its own — fresh readings from different directions do. The distance number works like a hot-and-cold reading, but you must always remember it has moved since you took it, so you plan where your probe will shove the quarry, not just what it reveals. Catch it with a probe that lands right on it, inside your budget. Each catch adds to a running score for the session, and your best run is saved to beat next time.