Our own product

ZipPuzzle

A number puzzle that gives you a reason to come back tomorrow

Status
Live · iOS and Android
Year
2025
ZipPuzzle
A product we build for our own team.

Number-linking puzzles have been around for years, and most of them are over in four minutes. We wanted the same three seconds of thinking, but with a reason to come back tomorrow.

Client ZipPuzzle
Industry Mobile & casual games
Category Proprietary product
Technology JavaScriptHTML5CSS3

Our approach

Every puzzle has to be solvable as a single unbroken path through all the cells, so the grid generator walks a Hamiltonian path rather than guessing until something looks right.

What it does

  • Four board sizes, from 5x5 up to a full 8x8 grid.
  • The same daily puzzle for everyone, generated from one shared seed.
  • Streak freeze: miss a day and the shield saves your run for you.
  • Unlimited puzzles in free mode, generated as you play.
  • A live global leaderboard for each board size.
  • Eight achievement badges, from the first solve to threading a full 8x8 board without lifting your finger.
  • Hints when you are stuck, so a dead end is never the end of the run.
  • A high-contrast score card you can post straight to a story.
  • Works with no connection at all.

What we delivered

  • iOS & Android apps
  • Puzzle generator & solver
  • Live web demo
  • Store assets & icon set

Screens & collateral

Results

  • Shipped on both stores, with the same puzzle logic running in the browser.
  • A daily habit instead of a one-off download.

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