Daily
One puzzle a day. The same one everybody else is looking at. A new one at midnight, and a streak you can lose.
One puzzle a day. The same one everybody else is looking at. A new one at midnight, and a streak you can lose.
Because unlimited puzzles aren't a habit, they're a binge — and you'll be sick of them by Thursday.
A single puzzle, shared by everyone, arriving at a fixed time, is a small daily appointment. It's the whole reason a five-letter word game took over the world in 2022, and it had almost nothing to do with the word game. The streak is the mechanism: it costs nothing to start and it hurts to lose, which is a remarkably efficient piece of psychology.
Here the puzzle is generated from the date itself, using a deterministic shuffle. There's no server dealing them out, which means everybody gets the same cipher because everybody's calendar agrees — and it means the page still works with the internet off. Your streak lives on your own device. No account, and nobody at this end knows whether you kept it.