Today
Four puzzles a day. The same four for everyone.
Everybody in the world gets the same four puzzles each day. They reset at midnight UTC, whether you finished them or not.
Checking your record
Resets at midnight UTC
JARGON
Guess today's five-letter business word in six.
Checking your recordVALUATION
Higher or lower. Ten companies. One market cap at a time.
Checking your recordTHE AUDIT
Sixteen line items. Four groups. Four lives.
Checking your recordPAY BANDS
Six jobs. Put them in order of what they actually pay.
Checking your record
Archive days are practice. They do not count towards your streak.
Or bring colleagues
The main game is a board game about being an employee: roll, move round the floorplan, collect Shareholder Value from paydays, lose it to deductions and restructures, and buy sign-off on your objectives from THE BOARD. Two to six players, in a browser, no download.
Four puzzles, one office
Four short puzzles a day, all set in the world of work, all the same for everybody on the planet, all resetting at midnight UTC. None of them takes more than a few minutes and none of them needs an account.
What each one asks of you
| Puzzle | What it tests | Best score |
|---|---|---|
| JARGON | Five-letter business word in six guesses, guessing only in office English | Solved in one |
| VALUATION | Higher or lower on company market caps, ten rounds, no lives | 10 / 10 |
| THE AUDIT | Sixteen line items, four hidden groups, four lives | All four groups |
| PAY BANDS | Six real UK jobs in order of what they pay | 5 / 5 adjacent pairs |
Why they are the same for everybody
Each puzzle is worked out from the date, so there is no server storing what you were given and no way to reroll a board you do not like by refreshing. That is the whole point of a daily: a score is only worth posting if the person reading it had the same problem.
It also means the answers stay on the server. Every one of these games sends your browser the question and keeps the answer back, so none of them can be finished by opening the developer console.
Which to play first
JARGON is the friendliest if you have a Wordle habit, because the format is familiar and the vocabulary restriction does more to help you than to hinder you. THE AUDIT is the one that most often ends badly, so it is the one worth reading the notes on.
PAY BANDS and VALUATION are both ordering games and both punish the same instinct: assuming that the thing you have heard of most is the biggest. Missed a day? The archive goes back to launch and is explicitly practice.