Lanterns Daily

Five daily logic puzzles in one quiet app. Light the board, build your streak.

Lanterns is a daily logic puzzle in the spirit of the Queens family of games — with a warm twist. Every day, everyone gets the same hand-built board. Place a lantern in every row, every column, and every colored region, with one simple rule: no two lanterns may touch, not even diagonally. Too close, and their light washes out.

The board starts dark and blank — it's pure deduction from the very first tap. Mark embers where a lantern can't go, and if you're ever stuck, ask for a hint: it reveals the next genuinely deducible move on your board. Never a guess.

THE PROMISE: NO GUESSING
Every daily puzzle in every game is verified to be solvable by logic alone — a unique solution you can always reason your way to, never guess at. A lot of puzzle games skip this. We don't. If it can't be solved by deduction, it never ships.

FIVE DAILY GAMES
• Lanterns — one lantern per row, per column, per colored region, and none may touch
• Mini Sudoku — a calm 6×6: one of each per row, column and box, in three difficulties
• Skyscrapers — a 6×6 skyline: match every view from the edge
• Fireflies — a 6×6 meadow: light half the swarm, no three alike in a row
• Fuse — a 6×6 burn: one unbroken line through every square, passing the charges in order

Each game has its own daily board, its own streak, and its own stats. Jump between them from the games hub.

A DAILY RITUAL
• One fresh puzzle a day in every game, the same boards for everyone
• A solve timer and a streak counter that rewards showing up
• A spoiler-free, emoji-grid result you can share — compare times, not solutions
• A dark board that illuminates as you solve, with regions that glow when satisfied

COMPETE, QUIETLY
• A global daily leaderboard for Lanterns — same board for everyone, one honest ranking of solve times
• A best-streak leaderboard for every one of the five games, via Game Center
• Entirely optional: no sign-in required, ever — leaderboards are there when you want them and invisible when you don't

CALM BY DESIGN
No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No network — your puzzles are generated right on your device, and your streak and history never leave it. Just you, the board, and one good puzzle a day.

HOW TO PLAY LANTERNS
• Tap a cell to mark an ember ("no lantern here"); tap again to place a lantern; tap once more to clear
• One lantern per row, per column, and per colored region
• No two lanterns may touch, including diagonally
• Light all the regions with no conflicts to win

Take a breath. Light the dark.