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Load Order

Pack it full. Break no regulations.

Load Order — a shipping container part-packed with tagged crates

A shipping container. A dock full of awkward crates. Six regulations that do not bend.

Load Order is a packing puzzle with a clipboard. Crates arrive stencilled with a tag — HAZMAT, FOOD, HEAVY, FRAGILE, LIVESTOCK, COLD CHAIN. Drag them into the hold, tap to turn them, and the container ships only when it is packed solid with no regulation broken. Get it wrong and the load is HELD AT GATE with the infraction codes printed across it.

Three to five minutes a manifest. One thumb.

The regulations do the design work

§1.1The container ships full. No gaps.
§2.3Heavy freight rests on the floor or on other heavy freight.
§2.4Nothing rests on fragile freight. It reaches the ceiling.
§3.1Hazardous goods may not touch food.
§4.2Livestock must touch a side wall.
§5.0Cold chain travels as one connected block.

Without the rulebook this is shape fitting. With it, half the container is decided before you place a single crate, and what is left is the real puzzle. Heavy builds up from the floor. Fragile hangs from the ceiling. The solvent drums have to get past the tinned pears somehow.

Every board is solvable, and none are hand-built

Manifests are generated and machine-verified: legal by construction, so a solution always exists and no board can waste your time. Difficulty is measured rather than guessed — the game counts the decisions a board actually asks of you, and serves the ones that fit where you are.

On the docket

Screens

A six-by-six container mid-load A cleared manifest and a rank promotion The daily manifest, a seven-by-seven hold with cutouts The briefing card introducing a new regulation The regulations docket