once a day
One puzzle a day, the same for everyone.
Ten steps, a single attempt, and a result you can share as a small grid. It is the daily ritual format, played by ear instead of with letters.
Most of Acrobeat is the endless free climb, where you chase your own best level with as many tries as you like. The daily challenge is the opposite of that on purpose. It is short, it is fixed, and you get one shot. That constraint is the whole appeal: everyone in the world is hearing the same ten gaps today, so your score actually means something to compare.
How the daily works
- Ten steps. A daily run is exactly ten gaps to match, not an endless ladder. It takes a minute or two.
- One attempt. Once you start, that is your run for the day. There is no retry, which is what makes the score honest.
- The same for everyone. Every player gets the identical ten gaps on a given date, so a friend's result and yours are directly comparable.
- It locks when you finish. Come back later and you will see your result for the day, not a fresh attempt. The next puzzle arrives tomorrow.
The same puzzle, with no server
Here is the part that is quietly unusual. Acrobeat has no backend. There is no account, no login, and nothing of yours is sent anywhere to make the daily work. The puzzle is generated from the date itself: the calendar day acts as a seed for the sequence of gaps, and because every device runs the same recipe on the same date, every device produces the same ten gaps without ever talking to a server. Your score and your streak live only in your own browser. It is a small trick with a nice payoff, a shared daily ritual that costs nothing to run and keeps your data on your device.
A result worth sharing
Finish the ten steps and you get a scorecard with a compact grid, the kind you can paste into a chat without spoiling the puzzle for anyone. It shows how you did step by step, not what the answers were.
example result
Acrobeat #161 · 8/10
Finish on consecutive days and you build a streak, shown on the scorecard. The streak is the real reason to come back tomorrow, and it is the one number that rewards the habit rather than a single lucky run.
Where it sits among daily games
If you keep a little stable of once-a-day games, Acrobeat will feel familiar. Wordle made the format famous: one puzzle a day, the same for everyone, a spoiler-free grid to share. Heardle brought that ritual to sound, asking you to name a song from a sliver of audio, and a lot of people were sorry to lose it when it moved behind a music service and faded. Acrobeat sits in that lineage but takes a different angle. There is no trivia and nothing to know in advance. The only thing being tested is your ear for timing, so a first-time player and a daily regular start on equal footing.
Getting a good daily score
- Warm up in free climb first. A few practice gaps before you open the daily settle your ear, and they do not cost your one attempt.
- Use listen again. A second listen before you answer is free and almost always worth it when only one run counts.
- Do not rush the last few. The daily is short, so there is no reason to hurry. Slow, deliberate copies beat fast, anxious ones.
Keep reading
manual
How to play
Controls, what the readouts mean, how each level tightens, and recovering from a fall.
why by ear
The science of timing
Why your ears read time far more finely than your eyes, and what that means here.
play by ear
Accessibility
How a fully blind player plays it start to finish, plus buzz mode and its limits.
overview
About Acrobeat
The short version of the idea, with an FAQ and the privacy details.
Today's puzzle is waiting. Open the daily from the mint button in the top right of the game. Questions? Write to acrobeat@proton.me.