Games like Tango: daily sun and moon grids to play next

Tango is a binary puzzle, known elsewhere as Binairo or Takuzu: fill a grid with two symbols so every line is balanced and no three match in a row. The games closest to it use exactly those rules on more or larger grids; after them come LinkedIn's other short dailies and the logic hubs that include a binary grid in their daily set.

The games

Start with Equinox from Puzzleship. It keeps Tango's suns and moons, its balance rule, its ban on three in a row and its equals and cross markers between cells, and it publishes six numbered grids a day, from very easy to ultra hard. If Tango's six by six feels quick, the harder Equinox grids are the natural next step.

For one long solve, the Special Daily Binairo gives everyone the same large grid each day, often 20 or more cells across, with black and white circles in place of suns and moons and the extra rule that no two rows or columns may be identical. It takes far longer than a Tango but uses no new ideas. Nunca Quatro from O Globo loosens the rule to never four in a row and offers three 9x9 grids a day in Portuguese.

If you like having several small puzzles in one place, Yotsu gives you four a day, one of them a Binairo, and stops there. Everyday Grids from the makers of CodyCross has a mode called Libra that balances fire and ice symbols the way Tango balances suns and moons, alongside a Queens-style grid and a Zip-style path. Daily Grid and Gridjoy each publish a dozen or more small puzzle types a day, binary grids among them, and 0h n0 from Q42 is a short dot puzzle from the studio that also made a well-known binary puzzle app.

Finally, the rest of LinkedIn's games sit next to Tango with the same leaderboard against your connections: Queens for region logic, Zip for paths, Patches for cutting a grid into rectangles and Mini Sudoku for numbers. Each takes about as long as a Tango, so they make an easy routine together.

Questions

What kind of puzzle is Tango?

A binary puzzle, also called Binairo or Takuzu. You fill a grid with two symbols so each row and column has equal numbers of each and no three of the same sit next to each other.

Where can I play harder Tango puzzles?

Equinox from Puzzleship has six daily grids up to ultra hard with the same suns and moons, and the Special Daily Binairo is one large grid a day.

Can I play more than one Tango a day?

LinkedIn gives one Tango a day. Equinox publishes six grids a day, and hubs like Yotsu, Daily Grid and Gridjoy add a binary grid to their daily sets.

Do these puzzles need guessing?

No. Like Tango, each grid has one solution you can reach by deduction.

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