Guides and tips
Daily Box offers a new puzzle box every day, and the mechanisms hidden inside vary a lot: dial codes, scales, gears, circuits, mirrors, timers, mazes… These guides explain how to read them and how to think your way through.
No guide gives away the solution of a daily box: they describe methods, classic mistakes and what to look for. If you prefer to learn by playing, the tutorials in the game's « Learn » section offer a short guided box for each mechanism.
Getting started
- What is a puzzle box? How to solve onePuzzle box, brain teaser box, escape box: what they are, how to approach one, and how to play a free online puzzle box every day with Daily Box.
- The puzzle of the day: a brain teaser to solve every dayDaily Box's puzzle of the day: one box to open per day, the same for everyone, with streak, stars, archives and catch-up for missed days.
- Getting started: how to approach a puzzle boxTurn the box, zoom in, pick up, take notes: the method for opening your first daily box without getting lost, and the beginner mistakes to avoid.
- Reading clues: plates, legends, symbols and notesDecode Roman numerals, symbol legends, counting questions, sums, decoys and engraved surfaces: the method to turn a clue into a code.
- Stars, clock and hints: managing your scoreHow stars, gears, mistakes and the four hint levels are counted, and when it is better to ask for help.
The mechanisms
- Codes, dials, keys, panels, clock face and ringsDials, keys to press in order, slats, clock face and rings: how to enter a code without wasting an attempt or time.
- Mazes, sliding puzzles and switchesThe marble that rolls to the wall, the sliding puzzle and switches that affect each other: simple methods for these three logic mechanisms.
- Scales and coin slotHow to balance scales whose weights are deduced from plates, and slide the right coins into the coin slot.
- Gears, cranks and gaugesPlace the wheels that mesh, predict the output's direction of rotation, turn the crank the right number of times and read a gauge.
- Circuit to connect and logic gatesOrient tiles to guide the current to the right receiver, and understand the AND, OR and NOT gates of the logic switches.
- Mirrors: following a ray to the right targetFlipping movable mirrors, a live-traced ray, targets with symbols and decoys: a method to solve the Mirrors module.
- Weights and measures: the containers problemFill, empty and pour sand between 2 or 3 containers to reach a precise level: a method for finding the shortest path.
- Timers, hold buttons and blinking lampsPlates lit for a moment, a button to hold while lamps light up, blinking lamps: how to play with time.
The game day to day
- Streak, archives and rankingExtend your streak, save a broken one, catch up on a missed day in the archives and understand the daily and weekly rankings.
- Weekly themes and holiday boxesMarine, Cartographer, Bookbinding, and the Halloween and Christmas boxes: how the decorations change through the year.
- Behind the scenes: how a daily box is designedGenerator, design rules, validation by a solver, the week's difficulty curve: how a daily box is made.