Compete every month. Every daily puzzle counts.
The Monthly League turns the Daily Challenge into a month-long competition: steady daily play beats one lucky solve, and a fresh league starts on the 1st of every month.
Five steps, every month
Play the Daily Challenge
Finishing your first Daily Challenge of the month puts you on that month's board. No sign-up; an internet connection is needed so the result can count.
Earn a Daily Score
Our server scores the solve from your time, mistakes and hints. Only your first completion of each day counts.
Build your Monthly Score
Your 20 best Daily Scores plus 30 points for every day you played. A bad day never lowers it.
Climb the ranks
See your rank and the players just above and below you in the app, and open the full Top 100.
Collect your reward
When the month is over, the Top 100 can claim ad-free days in the app. Everyone else gets a monthly badge.
How a day is scored
The app never sends a score: it sends your solved board, time, mistakes and hints, and the server works out the score with these rules.
| Part | Points | How |
|---|---|---|
| Completion | +500 | Every finished Daily Challenge. |
| Speed | up to +300 | Faster solves earn more, measured against the puzzle's difficulty. |
| Accuracy | up to +200 | 200 with no mistakes, then 130, 70 and 20. Mistakes also reduce the speed points. |
| Hints | −80, −100, … | The first hint costs 80 points, each further hint 20 more. |
| Difficulty | ×1.00 – ×1.30 | Easy ×1.00, Medium ×1.15, Hard ×1.30. |
The total before the difficulty multiplier is never below 100, so a Daily Score is between 100 and 1,300.
Example from the app (right)
A Medium puzzle in 1:07 with 2 mistakes and no hints: 500 + 180 (speed) + 70 (accuracy) = 750, × 1.15 for Medium = 863 points, 3 stars.
Star rating
Each day also gets 1 to 5 stars from the score before the difficulty multiplier:
- ★★★★★900+
- ★★★★780 – 899
- ★★★650 – 779
- ★★500 – 649
- ★below 500
Who ranks higher
- The higher Monthly Score (20 best Daily Scores + 30 per day played).
- On equal scores, the player who reached that score earlier.
Checked on the server. The solved board must match the day's solution, and only the first completion of a day counts.
Today's puzzle only. Days follow your local calendar; a puzzle finished up to an hour after midnight still counts for the day before. Your time zone is fixed for the month at your first play.
The Top 100. The app shows your rank and the players around you; the full Top 100 opens from the league screen (in the latest version after a short video, or straight away while you have ad-free time).
Monthly League · Top 100
Sample data- #1Player 7KQ2X21,480
- #2SudokuFan20,915
- #3Player M4T9A20,640
- #4GridWalker19,870
- #5Player Q8ZL119,310
Calendar, streak and Streak Shield
The league screen shows your Monthly Score, rank, days completed and day streak, and a calendar with the stars you earned each day.
Streak Shield: once a month you can use a free shield to cover one missed day, so your streak carries on. It is never used automatically and does not add points.
Longest streaks of 7, 14 and 30 days earn streak badges.
Ad-free days for the Top 100
| Final rank | Reward |
|---|---|
| #1 | 30 days ad-free |
| #2 – 3 | 14 days ad-free |
| #4 – 10 | 7 days ad-free |
| #11 – 25 | 3 days ad-free |
| #26 – 100 | 1 day ad-free |
| Everyone else | A monthly badge |
Ad-free means no ads in the app, and features that normally ask for a short video open straight away. A new reward is added on top of any ad-free time you still have. Rewards have no cash value.
Claiming a reward
- The month is closed once it has ended in every time zone, normally on the 1st (evening in India).
- Open the Monthly League in the app: a "League Complete" card shows your final rank and reward.
- Tap Claim Reward. From version 1.0.23 a short video plays first (none while you already have ad-free time).
- Your ad-free time starts straight away. A reward can be claimed once, by its owner, in the app only.
Previous months
Finished months appear under My League History with your final rank, score and reward. Every month you take part in also earns a league badge, plus a Perfect Month badge if you played every day.
From version 1.0.23 your league progress is linked to your Google Play Games account, so it comes back after a reinstall or on a new phone. Questions? See the FAQ.
Join this month's league
Finish today's Daily Challenge in the app and you are on the board.