Scoring, with the workings shown
Correct or completed work leads. Useful pace can help. Fast guessing and random tapping cannot take a shortcut. Here is the route from puzzle play to a score out of 100.
Example assumes a 7-second average response against the 8.5-second target. Pace is capped, then reduced to reflect performance above the 25% chance level.
The shared score recipe
Most games measure correct answers; Toggle Grid measures completion and move efficiency. Every recipe publishes its task-quality and pace weights rather than pretending unlike puzzles count the same thing.
Most games count correct answers. Toggle Grid combines completed boards with move efficiency against an exact optimum.
Average response time is compared with a target time. Meeting or beating the target reaches the pace cap; extra speed adds no more.
Answer games suppress pace near chance accuracy. Toggle Grid gives no pace to an unfinished board and keeps speed at only 5%.
The published task-quality and protected pace shares are combined. Quick Maths also includes correct volume; Toggle Grid includes move efficiency.
The difficulty multiplier is applied, the result is kept between 0 and 100, and the displayed game score is rounded to a whole number.
The chance guard
Four-choice games have a 25% chance baseline. A player answering around that level receives little or no pace credit, however quickly they tap. As accuracy rises above chance, more of the available pace score becomes useful.
This is why a careful correct answer is usually worth more than several rushed mistakes.
The bars show the pace component before its game weight, not the final score. Both examples are quick; only one is also reliably correct.
Fourteen current game recipes
Each game records its current scoring method. Raw measures remain game-specific, while the finished result always lands on the same 0–100 scale.
QTask qualityTarget squares found, measured against all target squares plus any wrong selections.
GShortcut guardThe average proportion of target squares in that round’s grids.
PPaceAverage recall time, measured against the game’s target time.
QTask qualityEntries that match the expected pad at the same route position. Missing timeout steps count as incorrect.
GShortcut guardOne in nine on a 3×3 board and one in sixteen on a 4×4 board.
PPaceAverage recall time per expected route step, measured against the target for that difficulty.
QTask qualityTargets found, measured against all targets plus any wrong selections.
GShortcut guardThe average proportion of target symbols on that round’s boards.
PPaceAverage search time, measured against the game’s target time.
QTask qualityExact matches out of every symbol shown. An unanswered timeout counts as incorrect.
GShortcut guard33% on Easy, 25% on Standard and 20% on Hard because the option count changes by level.
PPaceAverage answer time, measured against the target for that difficulty and suppressed at chance accuracy.
QTask qualityValues selected in the exact ascending prefix, with unfinished values reducing completion and wrong taps reducing control.
GShortcut guardNo fixed guessing baseline. Pace is multiplied by completion twice and by error control, so a quick partial board earns little speed credit.
PPaceAverage time between correct selections, measured against the target for that difficulty.
QTask qualityCorrect answers out of every sequence shown. An unanswered timeout counts as incorrect.
GShortcut guard25%, because each sequence has four answer choices.
PPaceAverage answer time, measured against the game’s target time.
QTask qualityThe unique grid completed, with limited partial credit for correct editable cells on an unfinished attempt.
GShortcut guardNo fixed guessing baseline. An unfinished grid receives no completion or pace credit.
PPaceCompleted-puzzle time against the target for that grid size; capped and worth only 5%.
QTask qualityCorrect answers out of all equations attempted during the 60-second round.
GShortcut guard25%, because each equation has four answer choices.
PPaceAverage answer time, with fast guessing suppressed by the same chance guard.
QTask qualityCorrect equations measured against all eight generated rounds; unanswered rounds receive no correctness credit.
GShortcut guardOne in three on Easy, one in sixteen on Standard and one in sixty-four on Hard. Pace is gated by completion-adjusted work above that baseline.
PPaceAverage response time for submitted equations, measured against the target for that difficulty.
QTask qualityCorrect answers out of every shape shown. An unanswered timeout counts as incorrect.
GShortcut guard25%, because each shape has four answer choices.
PPaceAverage answer time, measured against the game’s target time.
QTask qualityCorrect folding nets out of every question shown. An unanswered timeout counts as incorrect.
GShortcut guard25% on Easy and Standard, or 20% on Hard because the option count rises from four to five.
PPaceAverage answer time, measured against the target for that difficulty and suppressed at chance accuracy.
QTask qualityCorrect clue answers out of every ladder step. An unanswered timeout counts as incorrect.
GShortcut guard25%, because each clue has four legal one-letter choices.
PPaceAverage clue-answer time, measured against the target for that difficulty.
QTask qualityCorrect clue words measured against all eight rounds; unanswered rounds receive no correctness credit.
GShortcut guardNo fixed guessing baseline. Pace is based only on correctly solved words and multiplied by whole-set correctness.
PPaceAverage response time for correct words, measured against the target for that difficulty.
QTask qualityBoards cleared, plus move efficiency measured against each board’s exact shortest solution.
GShortcut guardNo fixed guessing baseline. An unfinished board receives no efficiency or pace credit.
PPaceCompleted-board time against the target for that grid size; capped and worth only 5%.
Difficulty and fair comparisons
Game difficulty changes puzzle demands as well as applying a small final adjustment. That adjustment recognises the harder setting without pretending the experiences are interchangeable.
Personal bests, attempts and game averages stay within the same game and the same difficulty. A Hard Shape Rotation result is not placed in the same record lane as an Easy one.
The Daily Brain Workout currently uses Standard for all five stations, so every Daily exercise uses the neutral ×1.00 multiplier.
From five games to one Daily Score
A Daily Score is the rounded arithmetic mean of the five completed station scores selected from that date’s balanced eight-skill rotation. There is no hidden bonus for a strongest skill, completing quickly, sharing the result or maintaining a streak.
A Daily Score appears only after all five stations are complete. The first completed result for each station is saved as that date’s official result. Replaying a game later can build its standalone history, but cannot rewrite that Daily Score.
Records, averages and streaks
These labels describe locally saved puzzle history. They do not compare you with other players or a population sample.
Your highest score for that exact game and difficulty across Daily, standalone and practice play. A tied best is not labelled as a new personal best.
The average of up to your seven latest results for that game and difficulty. On the dashboard, this includes the newest result.
After a game, the newest result is compared with up to seven earlier like-for-like results. The current score is excluded from that comparison baseline.
Today’s Daily Score is compared with up to seven previous complete five-station workouts, even though the balanced skill mix can vary. Exact personal-best comparisons remain separated by game and difficulty.
Consecutive local dates with all five Daily stations completed. It remains active when the latest finish was today or yesterday.
The longest run of consecutive completed Daily dates in this browser. Standalone games do not extend a Daily streak.
Scores, records and streaks are stored locally with no account or public profile. Clearing site data, using another browser or changing device can mean starting a separate history.
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Recorded scoring methods
Every result saves which scoring and puzzle methods were used, alongside the raw game measures, difficulty, mode, date and active duration.
If a formula is refined later, that marker lets the site identify the change rather than implying two different calculations were identical. The page will be updated when a published scoring method changes.
Score questions
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No. It describes how you performed in one of these recreational puzzle rounds. It is not an IQ score, medical assessment, diagnosis or measure of neurological health.
Task quality has more weight than pace in every game. Answer games suppress pace near their chance level, while Binary Grid and Toggle Grid give pace only 5% and award it only for a completed board.
They present different demands and use a small difficulty adjustment. Personal bests and game averages therefore compare only the same game at the same difficulty.
No. Paused time is excluded from active play time, and hiding the browser tab automatically pauses a game. The response time already used for a completed question or round still counts.
No. The first completed result for each Daily Workout station is the official result for that date. Later standalone or practice plays can add to that game’s history but do not replace the completed Daily Score.
It may be refined as games develop. Every saved result records which scoring method was used, so a future change can be identified rather than silently presented as the same calculation.
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