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Calm games · ten a day
Calm games, ten a day.
Rather is puzzles you can do slowly. A clock counts up while you play and nothing counts down, so a grid can take two minutes or twenty.
Each game has its own music, soft and instrumental; turn it off from the sound menu in any game or the speaker on Today. When you’ve played today’s puzzles, Today says “That’s all for today.”
What calm means here.
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A clock that counts up
Take as long as you like: the clock counts up from zero. Three stars ask for a target time.
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Music for each game
Fingerpicked guitar for Nonogram and a handpan for Islands. Mute it from the sound menu.
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A day that ends
Today’s puzzles, then the day is done. New ones arrive at midnight.
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Hints that explain
A hint shows the next step and why. Errors checks your board only when you ask.
Slow ones to start with.
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A picture appears as you fill it in.
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Turn the tiles one at a time until every pipe joins.
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Take the long way round: only the clock keeps score.
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Split the sea from the land, one square at a time.
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One closed line, drawn dot to dot.
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Turn two cards at a time and remember where each piece was.
Today
Ten puzzles a day. Easy to Expert.
The same ten for everyone, from ten different games. Play them in any order. When you've played them: “That's all for today.”
Rather More
Free accounts play seven of each day's ten. Rather More adds:
- The other three dailies, every day.
- Every past daily, to play any time.
- More hints.
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Easy
- ◐ Pairs about 1 min
- ◆ Pattern about 1 min
- ⊞ Sliding tiles about 2 min
Medium
- ★ Stars about 3 min
- W Word guess about 3 min
- ▦ Nonogram about 4 min More
Hard
- + Math cages about 5 min
- 01 Binary grid about 6 min More
Expert
- ▢ Loop about 8 min
- ▟ Towers about 10 min More
Questions
Is there a timer?
A clock counts up while you play, so you can take as long as you like. Three stars ask for the puzzle’s target time with no hints or Errors.
Can I turn the music off?
Yes. In a game, open the sound menu in the top bar and turn off Music. On Today, the speaker turns sound off with one tap.
Are there ads?
No, in neither plan.
Are these relaxing puzzle games?
They’re logic, number and word puzzles you take at your own pace, from Easy to Expert.
Does it send notifications?
Only the ones you turn on: reminders at your times, only on days you haven’t solved anything yet. On iPhone the app blocker sends one when you tap Open Rather on its screen.
Is it free?
Yes. Rather Free plays seven of each day’s ten puzzles with an account. Rather More, a subscription in the iPhone and Android apps, adds the other three, every past daily and more hints. It isn’t sold on the web.
More ways to play
- Daily puzzlesTen new ones at midnight, your time.
- Logic puzzlesGrids to solve by reasoning, new every day.
- Daily gamesTen games, one list, new at midnight.
- Quick gamesA minute or two, for spare moments.
- All gamesAll fourteen games and how each one works.