Cramdle

Cramdle is a spatial packing game with one puzzle a day. The day's puzzle is a handful of irregular objects cut from public domain pictures: classical heads, fruit, tools, shells, a lizard, a pointing hand, musical instruments. A box is drawn around them, and its width, height and area in square metres update as you move things. Your aim is to make that area as small as you can.

The game is dressed as an old desktop computer, with grey windows and a pixel font, and frames the task as a shift at a strange laboratory: a welcome note asks a new hire to pack the artifacts in the smallest box possible, and Begin Shift starts a 90-second clock. The game records the best fit you reach before the time runs out, and you can reset to your best arrangement or finish early.

When the shift ends you see how your fit compares with the other players that day, as a percentile, and can copy a short numbered result to share. Endless mode lets you keep optimizing the same set of objects without the clock, and its result is ranked as well. An archive lists past days so you can play the ones you missed, and every puzzle starts without an account.

Cramdle's first puzzle is dated 11 October 2026. It suits players who like tangram or polyomino packing but want something looser and quicker: the shapes are not grid pieces, they rotate freely, and there is no single right answer, only a smaller box. It has no ads.