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Ilkday Logic Puzzle: Helibrain Daily

Ane new nummer-grid puzzle ilk day, the same for awbody. Fill the grid, watch the signs, share yer time. Free, nae sign-up.

Bi the Helibrain teamChecked bi Robert(Inglis), PhD candidate in biophysicsPit oot Last checked

Loadin the day’s riddle…

How tae play

  1. Fill the grid. Pit the nummers 1 tae 5 (up tae 7 later in the week) intae the squares. Ilk nummer gangs in ance in ilka row an ilka column.
  2. Follow the signs. A sign atween twa squares maun haud true: in 4 > 2 the open side faces the bigger nummer. Atween rows, ∨ means the tap square is bigger, an ∧ means the bottom ane is.
  3. Start wi whit ye ken for sure. A square neist tae a “less nor” sign cannae haud the biggest nummer; a row wi juist ae place left for a nummer gets it there. The puzzle aye has exactly ae solution, an ye never need tae guess.

Tap a square, syne a nummer, or uise the keyboard (digits, arrow keys, Backspace). Turn Notes on tae jot doun the nummers a square micht still haud. A reid square or sign means a rule's bein broken the noo.

Whit is Helibrain Daily?

Helibrain Daily is a free logic puzzle that changes ilka day at midnight UTC. Awbody in the warld gets the same grid, sae ye can compare yer time wi freends athoot giein onythin awa. Puzzles get harder through the week; the weekend anes are the toughest.

Quick facts

  • Puzzle type: a nummer grid in the Futoshiki faimily, cried “mair or less” or “unequal” an aa. Ilk puzzle is made for its day by oor ain programme.
  • The same for awbody: ane puzzle ilka day for the hale warld, numbered: the nummer gangs up by ane ilka day.
  • Difficulty: smawer, easier grids early in the week, bigger grids an harder logic at the weekend. Maist days shoud tak 2 tae 5 minutes ance ye ken the rules.
  • Yer time: counts juist while the page is open in front o ye; it pauses on anither tab.
  • Streak: kept in this brouser alane. Naething tae sign up for.

Yer result an the share line

When the grid is fu an breaks nae rule, it's solved. Ye see yer time, the nummer o mistaks (an entry that brak a rule whan ye made it), an hou mony fowk solved the day's puzzle, wi the middle time ance at least 5 hae played.

The share line luiks like this: Helibrain Daily #12 · 2:41 · 🟩🟩🟨🟩🟩. Ilk square is ae row o the grid: green wi nae mistaks, yella wi ane, orange wi mair. It shaws hou ye got on athoot giein awa ae nummer.

Dae puzzles like this train yer brain?

Honestly: we dinnae ken, an naebody's shown it. Amang 19,078 adults aged 50 tae 93, fowk that did nummer puzzles mair aften scored better on memory, attention an reasoning tests [1]. That kinna study cannae tell if puzzles sharpen the mind or if sharp minds enjoy puzzles. A muckle review o brain-trainin studies fand that practice maks fowk better at the task they practised, wi little evidence that it carries ower tae ither tasks or ilka-day life [2].

Sae play Helibrain Daily cause it's fun an a guid daily habit for focus, no as treatment. It's no a test o intelligence, an yer time says naething aboot yer health.

Aften-asked questions

When does the new puzzle come oot?

Ilka day at midnight UTC. The page shows a countdown tae the neist ane efter ye solve the day's puzzle.

Is there aye exactly ae solution?

Aye. Ilka puzzle is checked by a solver that works step by step, the wey a body wad, athoot guessin. If it can fill the grid that wey, the solution is the ae ane.

Why dae times differ sae muckle fae day tae day?

The grids get bigger through the week an the logic gets harder, wi the toughest puzzles at the weekend. Compare yer time wi ither players on the same day, or wi yer ain times on the same weekday.

Whit counts as a mistak?

An entry that breaks a rule the meenit ye mak it: a nummer that's awready in the row or column, or ane that breaks a sign wi a filled-in neighbour. Fixin it later still leaves the mistak in yer coont.

Is Helibrain Daily free?

Aye, wi nae sign-up. Helibrain maks siller fae its app, that ye dinnae need tae play.

Can I play yestreen's puzzle?

No yet. Ilka puzzle is the puzzle for its day; a grid ye stertit afore midnight UTC can still be finished an coontit.

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Cite this page: Ilkday Logic Puzzle: Helibrain Daily. Helibrain. 2026. https://helibrain.com/sco/daily-puzzle. CC BY 4.0.

How this test works

Helibrain Daily is one number-grid logic puzzle a day, the same for everyone. Fill the grid so that each number appears once in every row and every column, and every "greater than" sign between two squares holds. Grids are 5 by 5 early in the week and grow to 7 by 7 at the weekend. Your result is your solving time, counted only while the page is open in front of you, and the number of mistakes. It is a puzzle for fun, not a test.

Version 1 · Cite this test:

Helibrain (2026). Daily logic puzzle, v1. https://helibrain.com/daily-puzzle/methods

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Sources

  1. Brooker H, Wesnes KA, Ballard C, Hampshire A, Aarsland D, Khan Z, Stenton R, et al. (2019). The relationship between the frequency of number-puzzle use and baseline cognitive function in a large online sample of adults aged 50 and over. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 34(7):932–940. doi.org/10.1002/gps.5085
  2. Simons DJ, Boot WR, Charness N, Gathercole SE, Chabris CF, Hambrick DZ, Stine-Morrow EAL (2016). Do "brain-training" programs work? Psychological Science in the Public Interest 17(3):103–186. doi.org/10.1177/1529100616661983

How we made this page: scrieved bi the Helibrain team fae the studies listed abuin, an checked bi Robert(Inglis) (PhD candidate in biophysics) on 11/4/2026. We update it when the soorces chynges.