Ping: Daily Sonar Puzzle

Three nodes are hiding on an 8x8 grid. Tap any tile and it answers with a single number: how many steps, up, down, left or right, to the closest node you have not found yet. Read the numbers, work out where the nodes have to be, and capture all three in as few taps as you can. That is the whole game. No energy, and no timers on your patience. DAILY GAUNTLET • Four boards a day, the same four for everyone, generated from the date • One attempt, scored against par • Level 1 is clean. Then the modifiers arrive • Panic Room puts a clock on every turn • Broken Grid drops in black holes that pings have to route around • Total Chaos moves the nodes while you are hunting them • Keep the streak alive • Share your result as a card that shows your taps and never gives away a position ARCADE • Play a bot for the same three nodes • Every ping you make, it sees too, and every ping it makes, you see • First to two nodes wins • Win streaks unlock smarter bots and harder modifiers VERSUS • Play a real player, live, on the same board • 15 seconds a turn, and first to two nodes wins • Every match you finish moves your rating, and one ladder ranks every player on Android, iPhone and the web • No account needed: you play under a generated name ACHIEVEMENTS AND THE DAILY LEADERBOARD • Ten achievements, from your first finished gauntlet to a hundred-day streak • Today's Ping: a leaderboard that resets every day, because everyone played the same board • Signed in through Play Games, which you already have. No account to make • Earn new looks for the board: four colours for your pings, four shapes for the ripple QUIET BY DESIGN • One small ad card, under the board and on the results screen • $3.99 removes it for good, and Restore purchase brings it back on a new phone • No analytics: nothing counts what you tap or how long you play • Outside Versus, nothing about your play leaves your device except the achievements and scores you send to Play Games • Sign-in is optional. Skip it and the game is exactly the same, saved on your device • Versus needs a connection. The Daily Gauntlet and the Arcade work completely offline Ping is small on purpose. It opens instantly, asks you one question, and gets out of the way. You can try it in a browser first at ping.nicksaulino.com.