Snug
Today's puzzle
Snug Daily
One critter in every row, column and color. No touching.
Tap a square once for ✕, twice for a critter.
No hints left today. Check still points out slips, free.
Hint
Solved!
Not done for today? Lily's school has twelve practice boards.
There's more Snug on iPhone
The app adds 100 free levels, a streak widget for your Home Screen and 56 critters to befriend. No ads, no lives.
How to play
The rules
Put one critter in every row, every column and every color patch. Two critters can never touch, not even at the corners.
Every puzzle has exactly one answer, and you can always reach it by logic alone. No guessing.
Marking the board
Tap a square once to mark it ✕ (no critter here), again to place a critter, and once more to clear it. Drag across squares to ✕ many at once.
A small dot means a critter you placed already rules that square out. With a mouse, right-click places a critter straight away. With a keyboard, use the arrow keys, Enter and X.
Hints that teach
Stuck? A hint shows the next step and explains why it works, so you learn the trick instead of just getting the answer. You get three a day.
Pointing out a slip never uses a hint, even after your three are gone. New to this kind of puzzle? Lily's first lesson takes a minute, and her school has twelve practice boards where hints never run out.
A new Star Battle puzzle every day
The Snug daily is a free Star Battle puzzle, the logic game some newspapers print as Two Not Touch, with critters instead of stars. It changes at midnight, your time, and it's the same puzzle everyone gets in the Snug app that day.
The week starts gentle on a 7 by 7 board and gets trickier as it goes. Thursday brings numbered stumps, Saturday a big 10 by 10 board, and Sunday a board that takes two critters in every row, column and color.
It plays in any browser, on a phone or a computer. Your progress and streak are saved on your device, with no account and no ads.