“A management saying is hidden in this picture. Rebuild it to unlock the saying, the research behind it and the source.
Solved
The research
Added to your library
Same time tomorrow? Add Muddlework to your home screen and it’s one tap away.
Tap the Share button in Safari.
Choose Add to Home Screen.
Open your browser’s menu (⋮).
Choose Add to Home screen or Install app.
My library
Your stats
You are a
The Muddler ladder
This week
Stats
Moves per solve
Recent boards
Your solved boards will show here.
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: it’s one tap away each day. On an iPhone, in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. On Android, in Chrome, tap the menu (⋮), then Add to Home screen or Install app. 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.
How to finish a board
Most boards get stuck on the last two rows. Here's the trick most Muddlers learn.
Settings
SoundNo sound? Check the silent switch on the side of your iPhone.
Show movesAdds fewest moves, moves per solve and moves in Recent boards to your stats.
Tile numbers
Privacy
Your streaks, points and library stay on this phone. 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, whether you opened the game from your home screen, and any campaign link you arrived by. Tapping Share, solving the day's board (with the level and roughly how long it took), and being offered or using the hint are each counted once a day. These facts are only added up, once per device per day. They hold nothing that identifies you, and Muddlework doesn't use them to identify or track anyone. Cloudflare, which runs the game, keeps standard server logs. There are no names, emails or accounts.
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Want a hint?
Stuck on the last rows? Here's the trick most Muddlers learn.