QUINT

QUINT is a small logic puzzle played with cards instead of digits. The deck has five ranks (ace, king, queen, jack and ten) and five suits: the usual spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs plus a teal star. That makes 25 cards for a 25-square board. The goal is to place them so that each row and each column shows all five ranks and all five suits, with nothing doubled.

The old puzzle behind it is the Graeco-Latin square, two overlapping Latin squares solved at once. You have to track rank and suit together. A card can fit its row by rank and still break its column by suit, so each placement narrows two sets of options.

Every day there is one numbered board, the same for everyone. On 8 November 2026 it was Daily #7, with ten grey clue cards already fixed and fifteen cards waiting in the tray below. You drag a card onto a square, or tap a card and then a square. Tapping a placed card sends it back. Check marks clashes, Recall clears your cards, and a toggle sorts the tray by rank or by suit. Up to three clues will place a card for you, each costing one medal step. A solve under two minutes earns gold, under three minutes silver, and anything slower bronze.

The game is made by J Krishnamurthi and sits in Take5Games, a menu of about twenty small daily games that also has word, number, flag and chess-themed puzzles. There is no sign-up, and your streak, medals and solve rate stay in the browser. The rules, buttons and results can be switched into 37 languages, from Hindi, Bengali and Tamil to Spanish, Japanese and Swahili.

QUINT suits sudoku players who want a short twist on row and column logic, and card players who like a puzzle that fits in a coffee break. A settings switch between Easy and Hard changes how many cards start on the board.