Coronet Arcade

About Coronet Arcade

Coronet Arcade gathers thirteen short daily puzzles on one page at coronet.one. The site says it is run by Lueva Labs in the United States. Each game has its own free daily board, labelled with the UTC date, and a separate practice mode that does not replace the daily.

The logic side is the larger part. Coronet, the game the hub is named after, asks you to place one crown in each row, column and coloured region, with no two crowns touching, even diagonally. Soluna fills a grid with suns and moons, Circuit draws one path through every checkpoint, Inlay covers a board with given rectangles, Mosaic fills cells from number clues, Bones places dominoes so each region holds, and Mini Sudoku fills each row, column and box. Each board is built to have one solution, so it is solved by deduction rather than guessing.

The word and association side has Weave, a word search; Ascent, a ladder where you change one letter at a time; Glyph, a word guess from letter marks; Hive, which has you spell words from a set of letters; Clusters, which sorts words into their groups; and Nexus, where you name what a set of clues has in common.

Every daily is free, with two free hints a board, a timer and streaks kept in your browser. A one-time Arcade Pass for 4.99 US dollars adds unlimited hints, the last 60 daily boards from the archive and expert practice without the daily cap. Signing in is optional and only saves finished dailies to an account or restores a Pass. There is also a Group mode for playing alongside people you choose.

It suits players who already do LinkedIn's or the New York Times' daily grids and want a set of similar boards in one place, with a fresh one in each game every day.

How to play Coronet Arcade

1. Open coronet.one and pick a game from the hub, or press Play today to start with Coronet.
2. Read the one-line rule under the game's name; a short guide sits below each board.
3. Solve the day's board: in Coronet, tap a cell once to mark it with an X and twice to place a crown, so each row, column and colour region holds one crown and no crowns touch.
4. Use Check to test your board, Undo or Reset to back out, and Hint for a next step if you are stuck (two hints a board are free).
5. Move on to the next game with Next, or come back after midnight UTC for thirteen new boards.

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Tips

• In Coronet, start with the smallest colour region: its crown has few places to go, and marking the cells around it with X clears whole rows and columns.
• Drag across cells to paint X marks quickly when a row or region is already ruled out.
• Use the Still open filter on the hub to see which of the day's thirteen boards you have not finished.
• Practice boards are separate from the daily, so you can warm up on a game without spoiling the shared board.

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