Numerati
A daily puzzle game where today's date is the answer
2 followers
A daily puzzle game where today's date is the answer
2 followers
Every day, the 8 digits of today's date (MM/DD/YYYY) are scrambled across a tile board. Your job: restore them to the correct order. Tiles don't just swap. A tile can blast its neighbor across the board, traveling a distance equal to its own value. Finding the optimal solution in the fewest moves possible is the challenge. One puzzle per day. Everyone plays the same one. Your days are numbered.
Hey PH. I'm Kyle, the solo dev behind Numerati.
The idea came from wanting a daily puzzle where the answer was both new and hiding in plain sight. Today's date is always the solution. You just have to find your way back to it.
The mechanic took the most work to get right. Tiles can "blast" each other across the board: selecting a tile and jumping it left causes it to displace the destination tile forward by the destination's own value. It sounds simple but creates surprisingly non-obvious optimal paths.
Built solo with Django + Next.js. Been quietly live for a few weeks. Would love to hear what you think, especially from anyone who finds a fast solve today.