Once in every line
Each row and each column holds every shade exactly once. Set the same glass twice in a line and the lead cracks red.
Every pane is a deduction, and every window you finish fills the dark cathedral with light.
A number logic puzzle for iOSA window is a square of panes, as many shades of glass as it is wide. Thick lead binds the panes into panels, and three laws decide every one of them.
Each row and each column holds every shade exactly once. Set the same glass twice in a line and the lead cracks red.
A panel marked 7+ must add to seven; 2÷ means one glass is twice the other. Two-pane panels may subtract or divide, larger ones add or multiply.
When a panel's glass is right it lights in amber, ruby, sky or moonlight. Every window has one glazing, and reasoning alone gets you there.
Forty-seven windows wait along the ground plan, from the Narthex at the west door to the Lady Chapel behind the apse. After the Crossing, the two transepts may be glazed in either order.
Every panel shows its number and its sign. The nave is glazed this way, 3×3 up to 7×7.
The signs are painted over in grey. Work out whether a panel adds, subtracts, multiplies or divides, and its true colour shows.
Two gold fillets cross corner to corner, and both diagonals must hold every shade as well.
The last window joins grey paint and gold fillets in one 7×7 pane of glass and reasoning.
At Vespers one window waits each evening, the same for every glazier that night. Glaze it before the day is out; an evening that passes simply passes, with nothing lost.
Candle Rush lays small windows on the bench one after another while a candle burns down. Each restored window adds wax, clean ones lengthen a chain up to five, and a crack breaks the chain.
Restored windows earn ambers for the Tracery, a shop that grows like window stonework: sun shafts, cartoon sheets and lenses to help at the table, new glass that changes the colour of every lit panel, gilded or verdigris lead. Crown-glass bullseyes fill a shelf as the cathedral comes back to light, and the fabric rolls keep the accounts of every pane you set.