Coronet

About Coronet

Coronet began with Queens and has grown into a set of nine short puzzles, all played in the browser with no account. A fresh set lands every midnight in your own time zone, and the home page counts how many of the day's nine you have finished.

Most of the set is logic grids with a single answer that you reach by reasoning: Queens, where one queen goes in every row, column and colour region with no two touching; Tango, balancing suns and moons; classic 9x9 Sudoku and a 6x6 Mini; Minesweeper boards that never force a guess; Patches, where you cut the grid into rectangles that fit their clues; and Zip, one path through every cell joining the numbered dots in order. Two are word puzzles: Pinpoint asks for the category behind five clues, and Crossclimb is a word ladder with trivia clues.

The daily boards are built from the date, so everyone sees the same puzzle. The Queens daily is smaller early in the week and bigger at the weekend, and is never set to Hard. Missed days can be played from the archive.

Hints do more than fill a cell: each one names the technique, such as a naked pair in Sudoku or a region squeeze in Queens, and explains why it works. A skills panel tracks which techniques you have met. Each game banks one streak freeze that covers a single missed day.

Beyond the dailies there is unlimited play for fresh boards whenever you like, and Beat the Clock, three-minute sprints for every game. Progress is kept only in your browser, and the site says it is not affiliated with LinkedIn.

How to play Coronet

1. Open playcoronet.com and pick any of the day's nine puzzles from the Today's puzzles list.
2. Read the short rules box at the top of the puzzle, for example one queen per row, column and colour in Queens.
3. Solve the board by reasoning; tap to mark cells, and use Check or a Hint if you get stuck.
4. Come back for the rest of the set, or open the archive to play a day you missed.

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Tips

• In Queens, look first for a colour region confined to a single row or column: its queen must go there, which clears that line for every other region.
• Use the hints to learn rather than to finish: each one names the technique, and the skills panel shows which ones you have not seen yet.
• Each game has its own streak and one freeze, so missing one puzzle on a busy day does not end the others.

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