Daily Netwalk Challenge
One puzzle. One day. Everyone in the world gets the same board. Can you solve it in fewer moves than your friends?
How Daily Netwalk Works
- Every day at midnight UTC, a new 7×7 board is generated.
- Everyone gets the same board. Your friend in Tokyo sees the exact same tiles as you.
- The UTC date seeds a repeatable pseudorandom board. Scores are stored in your browser, not verified by a server; this is a friendly challenge, not an anti-cheat competition.
- Solve it, note your moves and time, and compare with friends.
- Come back tomorrow for a new challenge. 365 puzzles a year.
Daily uses Bounded rules: every opening must match its neighbor, all tiles must reach the center, and loops are not allowed. Endpoints and crosses are valid pieces. Press Z to undo or R to restart the same challenge. Want other modes and sizes? Open the game options →
Rules update, September 14, 2026: Bounded boards now preserve their generated tree. Daily layouts from older game versions and their local scores are not comparable with this version. See the generation correction and tests.
What is shared, and what stays on your machine
Daily is not a separate rule set. It is Bounded mode on a 7×7 board. The outer edge is a wall, the server is the center tile, cycles are not allowed, and no tile is locked. Everyone who loads the same UTC date on this version of the generator starts from the same scrambled board. A friend in another city is looking at that layout, not at a copy of your personal progress.
The date badge uses UTC, not your local midnight. Late in the evening in the Americas, the next puzzle may already carry tomorrow's UTC date. The archive links under the board request an earlier UTC date on this same page. They still use Daily rules. They are not a saved replay file you can mail to someone.
How a comparison stays fair
The move counter and the timer live in the page. A personal best move count can remain in local storage in this browser. Reloading keeps that best and the date seed. The game does not upload the result, and nobody else can see it unless you copy it. The share buttons place text on your clipboard or open the site you choose. There is no account, no official leaderboard, and no check that a pasted number matches a finished board.
Compare like with like. Name the UTC date, the move count, and the time. A score from before the 14 September 2026 generator correction is not the same puzzle: Bounded boards now keep the tree that was generated, and older local bests used a different storage key. Do not average those older numbers into a streak and call it one continuous record.
How to work this single board
Read the corners first. An elbow against two walls has one useful orientation. An endpoint still has a choice, so leave it until a neighbor asks for one direction. Cyan tells you which tiles currently reach the center. That light drops away if you rotate a tile that was holding the path. A red cycle means this Bounded board is not finished, even when many tiles are lit. Z undoes one step. R resets this date. It does not roll a new random board.
Another size, or Torus, or Classic, belongs on the main game. Those choices are not part of the daily seed. The interactive lessons, the FAQ, and the Chinese guide describe the same completion test: matching openings, every tile joined to the server, and no cycle in this mode. If the page and a guide disagree, write through the contact page with the UTC date and the browser.