Stands (Mind Loft)
Rate itRebuild every result of a small league from a few surviving facts.
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Stands is a free daily logic puzzle from Mind Loft. Five invented clubs have each played the others once, the results sheet is lost, and a handful of facts survive, such as a points total or one remembered result. You fill in every match so that all the facts hold; only one set of results does.
About Stands (Mind Loft)
Stands is a deduction puzzle on Mind Loft, a free site of daily browser games. Each day a small league has played a full round robin: five clubs, ten matches, everyone against everyone once. The results sheet has been lost, and only a few facts remain. On the day we looked there were five: Barmoor beat Dalehead, Arrowfield finished on 6 points, Enderby on 0, Dalehead on 7, and Culverton won exactly 3 matches.
No sport knowledge is needed and the clubs are invented. A win is worth three points and a draw one, so a points total is a small equation with only a few solutions, and one solved row usually forces the next. Every board is built with a constraint solver and checked to allow exactly one table, with the clue set trimmed until no fact is redundant.
You play on a grid of clubs against clubs. Tapping a cell cycles it through win, draw, loss and blank, and the mirror cell fills itself in. Beside it, the league table updates as you go, with played, won, drawn, lost and points. When you think it is right you hand in the sheet. A Nudge hint costs 2 of your 12 points, and wrong hand-ins are counted as rejected.
A new season opens at midnight US Eastern Time, with a sixth club on Sundays. Mind Loft suggests Venn, Alibi and Tally alongside it, and it suits players who like logic grid puzzles with a little arithmetic.
How to play Stands (Mind Loft)
- Open mindloftdaily.com/stands and press Open the record to see the surviving facts.
- Tap a cell in the grid to set that match as a win, draw or loss for the row club; the opposite cell mirrors it.
- Watch the table update with each club's wins, draws, losses and points.
- Fill all ten matches so that every surviving fact is true.
- Press Hand in the sheet; a Nudge hint is available for 2 points.
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Tips
- Start with the extremes: a club on 0 points lost every match.
- Work out which win and draw combinations make each points total; with four games, few combinations fit.
- A fact like "won exactly 3 matches" fixes a lot once one other result is known.
- Check that the total points add up across the table before you hand in.
Questions
Do I need to know about football to play Stands?
No. The clubs are invented, and the puzzle only uses three points for a win and one for a draw.
How is Stands scored?
You start on 12. A Nudge hint costs 2 points, and handing in a wrong sheet counts as a rejection; the leaderboard also uses time.
Is Stands free?
Yes. Stands runs in the browser on mindloftdaily.com at no cost. There is no app and no account to make; entering a display name only puts your result on the daily leaderboard.
When does a new Stands come out?
Every day at midnight US Eastern Time, with the same season for every player. Sundays bring a sixth club.
Can I play old Stands seasons?
Yes. Mind Loft keeps past days in its puzzle archive, together with each day's standings.
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