The Fidget Drawer
Sand Garden
A small dry garden of raked sand, seen from above. Drag the rake to leave neat grooves, set a few smooth stones down, then sweep it all flat and start again.
How to play
- Drag across the sand to rake. Rake has 5 tines and Wide rake has 9; Stick draws a single fine line for shapes and spirals. Raking over old grooves reshapes them, as real sand does.
- Stones: tap the sand to set a stone down (up to five), or drag one to move it. Ripple rings: tap near a stone to rake rings around it.
- Smooth it flat sweeps a board across the garden; the stones stay where they are. Clear the garden lifts the stones too.
- Undo takes back the last stroke. Save picture keeps a copy as my-sand-garden.png.
- With the garden selected, the keyboard works too: arrow keys move the rake (Shift moves faster), Space lowers or lifts it, T changes tool, S smooths the sand, and Ctrl or Cmd + Z undoes.
- Calm mode fades the sand back to flat instead of sweeping a board across it.