The Leaderboard Is Now a Leaderboard

For a while, the leaderboard page was trying to be two things at once. Part of it was your own play history. Part of it was a way to see how everyone else did. Neither half was very good at its job, and the tabs across the top made it worse: achievements here, rivals there, challenges somewhere else. If you landed on the page wanting a simple answer to "how did today go?", you had to hunt for it.

So we split the two ideas apart. The leaderboard is now about the puzzles. The history page is about you.

The leaderboard: one day at a time

The leaderboard now lists the puzzles that were completed on a given day. Each puzzle gets its own card showing the puzzle number, how many players finished it, and the top score for that puzzle.

  • Your puzzles come first. Any puzzle you played that day is tagged and sorted to the top of the list, so you can see how your result held up. Everything else follows, sorted by how many people played it.
  • Top score details on demand. The top score line always shows the player, points, time, and hints used. Open it and you get the full breakdown — self-solved letters, hint letters, unused hint rounds, and any insight bonus.
  • The full standings, collapsed. Every card has a "Full leaderboard" toggle that expands the complete list of players for that puzzle, with your own row highlighted. No extra page, no losing your place.
  • Not played yet? There is a play button right on the card that drops you straight into that exact puzzle.

Pick a day, any day

The page opens on today. There is a tab for yesterday, and a date picker for anything further back. In the date picker, days where you solved at least one puzzle are highlighted, which turns the calendar into a quick map of your own streaks and gaps.

History is now a real play log

With results moved to the leaderboard, the history page got to become what it always should have been: a clean log of what you have played.

  • Puzzles you never started no longer clutter the list. Unfinished puzzles are tagged so you can pick them back up.
  • Every completed puzzle now shows where you placed — #1, #2, Top 5, Top 10, Top 25 — ranked against every player who finished that puzzle.
  • The achievement totals card sits at the top, open by default, with a new average rank stat alongside your totals.

Two pages, two jobs. Go see where you landed today.