Muddlework

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Your move, Muddler.

A management saying is hidden in this picture.
Rebuild it to unlock the saying, the research behind it and the source.

My library

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The Muddler ladder

This week

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How points work

Each board earns points by its level: Gentle 100, Steady 150, Tricky 200, Tough 250, Fiendish 300.
A Fun board earns 50.
Solve all seven boards from Monday to Sunday for 100 more.

How to play

Each day's board is a management picture cut into 16 squares, with one missing.
Tap or swipe a tile next to the gap to slide it. Tapping a tile further along the same row or column slides the whole line.
Put the picture back together to unlock the saying, the research behind it and a link to the source.
Show the picture shows the finished picture over the board. Look as often as you like; it never costs points.
The day's level follows the week, from Gentle on Monday to Fiendish on Sunday, and sets the board's points. Solve all seven boards from Monday to Sunday for 100 more.
Choose the day's level or Fun before your first move. Once you start, that's your board for the day. Fun is a lighter scramble with no clock, worth 50 points.
Each board must be solved before midnight, your time. Then a new one arrives.
The clock only counts while the board is on screen. Tap the clock to pause; the board is covered until you resume.
Every board you solve adds its lesson to My library. Open it from the stats button.
Keep Muddlework on your home screen. On an iPhone, Safari can clear a website's saved data after 7 days without a visit, and your streak and library with it. From the home screen, they're kept.

Settings

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Show movesAdds fewest moves, moves per solve and moves in Recent boards to your stats.

Tile numbers

Privacy

Muddlework has no accounts and never asks for your name. Your streaks, points and library stay on this device.

When the game fetches the day's board, it sends a few anonymous facts the phone already knows: roughly how many boards you've played, how long since your first, whether you played yesterday, any campaign link you arrived by and, during the beta, which of the two art styles you were shown. Tapping Share is counted too. Solving the day’s board is counted too. These are only added up, once per device per day, and hold nothing that identifies you.

Cloudflare, which hosts the game, keeps standard server logs, which include IP addresses. Muddlework doesn’t use them to identify or track anyone.

Thanks for testing.

Muddlework launches soon.

Solved

My library

The Muddler ladder

This week

Stats

Moves per solve

Recent boards

How points work

How to play

Settings

Privacy

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Solved

My library

Your stats

The Muddler ladder

This week

Stats

Moves per solve

Recent boards

How points work

How to play

Settings

Privacy

Thanks for testing.