Network (PuzzleMadness)

About Network (PuzzleMadness)

Network is a rotation puzzle. The grid is full of tiles with line pieces on them (straights, corners, T-junctions and end pieces), all turned at random. One tile is the power source, marked with a lightning bolt, and you turn tiles until every one is linked to it in a single network with no loose ends.

The daily page opens today's puzzle on its own, and its title carries the date (on 3 October 2026 it read "Daily Medium Network Puzzle for Saturday 3rd October 2026"). There is a separate dated puzzle for each size: Small, Medium, Large and Mixed. Past days stay in the archive, so a missed puzzle can be played later, and there is a print version and an image download of the grid. PuzzleMadness does not publish solutions: the site tells you when you have finished a grid correctly or made a mistake. Each completed puzzle adds to your total on the Network monthly and all-time leaderboards, where only your best score on any one puzzle counts.

The rules page suggests starting at the edges: a tile on the border cannot point out of the grid, which often fixes its orientation, and fixed tiles then fix their neighbours. Smaller grids are the gentle way in; the large ones need more care about loops and stray branches.

PuzzleMadness is a British puzzle site with dozens of daily puzzle types in the browser, from many sudoku variants to logic grids such as Nurikabe, Hashi and Slitherlink. It is free to play and carries ads. A free account keeps track of the puzzles you have finished and puts your name on the leaderboards, and the badges next to usernames mark how many puzzles a player has completed.

How to play Network (PuzzleMadness)

1. Open the day's Network page and choose Small, Medium, Large or Mixed.
2. Click a tile to rotate it.
3. Start with tiles on the edges and corners, turning them so nothing points out of the grid.
4. Connect every tile to the power cell with no dead ends; the site marks the puzzle complete.

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Tips

• Corner tiles have only one or two ways to sit; set them first.
• Think of each tile in terms of its openings: two neighbouring openings must face each other or both be closed.
• End pieces next to each other cannot face each other, or they would form an isolated pair.

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