Solvent

About Solvent

Solvent is a daily puzzle site that runs in the browser with no download. Each day it puts out a full set of fifteen small puzzles, and every player gets the same ones. Its mascot, a blue square called Pip, turns up through the set: you water Pip's plant in Pipes, slide Pip across the ice in Glide and look for Pip in a busy picture in Where's Pip?.

The set mixes logic, words, memory and a little skill. Pipes asks you to turn tiles until water runs from the tank to the plant with no open ends, against a par of taps. Snapshot is a daily memory test, Mini Golf gives you one hole, Pip's Mystery asks which suspect is lying, Thief is a code to crack and Hivemind asks you to guess how everyone else voted. For word players there are Gridlock, a five-letter word game, plus Riddles, Quartets, a Mini Crossword and a Word Search, and the classic grids are covered by a Sudoku and a Nonogram.

Solving any one puzzle keeps your daily streak going, and you can pin your favourites into a personal daily set. Each solve is timed, and mistakes and hints add seconds to your time (3 seconds, then 5, then 7 and so on) before it goes on the day's leaderboard of the top 100. You can add friends, put them into groups and compare times on a leaderboard for each group, and you earn badges and experience along the way.

The daily puzzles are free and can be played as a guest; a free account keeps your streak and badges across devices. The site shows ads. A paid Solvent Plus membership (4.99 US dollars a month or 32.99 a year) removes them and adds unlimited practice puzzles in every game at easy, medium and hard, plus an archive of the last 14 days.

It suits players who like a varied morning routine of short puzzles rather than one long one, and anyone who wants a quick daily race against friends.

How to play Solvent

1. Open solventgames.com; today's puzzles are listed on the home page, with a countdown to the next set.
2. Pick any puzzle, read its one-line rules at the top and solve it; the clock starts when the puzzle opens.
3. Use a hint if you are stuck, knowing that each mistake or hint adds a few seconds to your time.
4. Solve at least one puzzle each day to keep your streak, and tap the star on your favourites to pin them into your daily set.
5. Check the leaderboard for the day's fastest times, or add friends to a group to compare times with them.
6. Use Share today to send your results once you have finished.

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Tips

• Start with the puzzles you are quickest at if you are chasing the leaderboard: a clean solve with no hints keeps your time free of added seconds.
• In Pipes, fix the corner and edge tiles first, since they can only point inward, and aim for the par number of taps.
• Create a free account before a long streak builds up, because a guest streak is kept on that device only.

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