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Three lamps, one after another. Start with the Spark, carry on with the Puzzle and finish with the Venture. Each lamp lights when you finish its game, and the rays show how well it went.
Full strand!
All three lamps are lit. Today's glow: 0/9
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How the strand is chosen
The games of a day come from a seeded rotation. Every Spark game appears once in each three-day block, every Puzzle game once in five days and every Venture game once in four, in a shuffled order and never on two days in a row. The difficulty follows the weekday: gentle on Monday and Tuesday, steady from Wednesday to Thursday and on Sunday, stiff on Friday and Saturday.
Everybody gets the same strand on the same date: the same patterns, sums, grids, pictures, questions, finishes and spare set-ups. The date is your device's local date, so a new strand arrives at your own midnight.
Only your first finish of a lamp counts for the day. You can replay any lamp afterwards for fun; the rays stay as they were.
Streak and glow
A day with all three lamps lit is a full strand, and full strands on consecutive days make your streak. If yesterday was full and today is not yet, the streak waits for you until midnight. Each lamp gives one to three rays, so a day's glow runs from 3 to 9, and the calendar colours each day by its glow.
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When a lamp gets two or three rays
| Game | Two rays | Three rays |
|---|---|---|
| Flash Grid | pattern of 5 tiles (level 1), 7 (level 2), 8 (level 3) | 7, 9 or 10 tiles |
| Quick Sums | 14 correct answers (10 on mixed sums) | 22 correct (17 on mixed sums) |
| Odd One Out | 30 s on level 1, 36 s on level 2, 45 s on level 3 | 20 s, 25 s or 32 s |
| Bridges | no hint, or under the target time | no hint and under 2:30 easy, 5:30 medium, 10:00 hard |
| Binary | no hint, or under the target time | no hint and under 2:30 easy, 5:30 medium, 10:00 hard |
| Lights | no hint, or under the target time | no hint and under 1:00 easy, 2:30 medium, 4:00 hard |
| Sliding Picture | no hint, or under the target time | no hint and under 1:30 on 3×3, 5:00 on 4×4 |
| Jigsaw | no hint, or under the target time | no hint and under 2:30 for 12 pieces, 5:30 for 24, 11:00 for 48 |
| Flags | 5 right out of 8 | 7 or 8 right |
| Find the Country | 5 right out of 8 | 7 or 8 right |
| Darts | 2 finishes out of 5 | 4 or 5 finishes |
| Bowling | 5 spares out of 10 | 8 or more spares |
Finishing a game always lights its lamp with one ray. More about the rules in the guide How the strand works.