About Raveled

The puzzles aren't just random; they are intelligently crafted to provide a unique and engaging experience every time you play. Here's a deep dive into how our clever generation process works:

1. 1 Topical Theme Selection: At the heart of each puzzle is a theme. The system algorithmically selects from a vast, curated database of topics, ranging from historical events and scientific discoveries to pop culture and literature. This ensures a fresh and educational experience.
2. 2 Knowledge Graph Integration: We leverage a sophisticated knowledge graph to find interconnected concepts related to the chosen theme. This allows us to generate clues and answers that are not just related, but contextually coherent and often surprisingly clever. Even the same theme will yield different puzzles on different days.
3. 3 Timely & Relevant Themes: On special days, the puzzle generation system incorporates themes related to the current season, holidays, or significant world events, making your daily puzzle feel connected and current.
4. 4 Difficulty Ramp: The five daily puzzles are intentionally ordered with a gentle difficulty curve. The first few puzzles use more common words related to the theme, building up to a more challenging final puzzle to test the deepest knowledge of the day's topic. Additionally, the clues are written to be progressively more obvious as you use up your reveals. Abstract/vague clues for the first few reveals, then more direct clues the more you use up.

Your score is a reflection of your skill, speed, and strategy. We've designed a weighted system to reward thoughtful play.

• Base Score: Each correctly solved puzzle grants a base number of points (1,000).
• Time Penalty: A timer starts with each new puzzle. The longer you take, the more points are deducted from your score. However, time is not weighted heavily, so it's better to think than to rush.
• Hint Penalty: Revealing a clue (up to 6 available) or a letter will help when you're stuck, but it will apply a small deduction from your potential score for that puzzle. The number of letter reveals available depends on the word's length (you can reveal letters until only two are left). Clues deduct significantly fewer points, so use them more than letters for a higher score.
• Hard Mode: Feeling brave? Enable Hard Mode in Settings to remove the free first clue and the free letter reveal that normal mode provides. Every clue and every letter costs points from the start, with a higher ceiling for those who want a pure challenge.
• Ranked Tiers: Each tier is color coded per round each day. You'll notice these colors used when sharing your score, after you complete a puzzle on your daily summary, and in the score history calendar to indicate your performance that day. The tiers are as follows:

  Total for the Day
  (all 5 puzzles):

  🟥 <1,000
  🟪 1,000 -1,999
  🟦 2,000 - 3,999
  🟩 4,000+

  Total per Puzzle:

  🟥 0 - 249
  🟪 250 - 499
  🟦 500 - 749
  🟩 750+

Solving a puzzle with no reveals and quickly is your best bet, but when that fails, here are some point-saving tips:

• Reveals: Reveal Clues before Letters. You can reveal all 6 clues at the same cost as a letter reveal (-150 points). Letter reveals should be a last resort.
• Time: Don't worry too much about the timer. 1 minute off the timer is about the same deduction (-180 points) as a letter reveal (-150 points).
• Solving: Each puzzle solved gives you +50 points. So even if you take a bit longer, it's better to finish than to skip. Remember, losing points to time is capped after 2 minutes, so 1 hour or 2 minutes is the same penalty.
• Bonus: Every day you'll see ⭐ icon on your screen while playing. This will reveal the first letter of one of the puzzles once a day. Use it if you get really stuck or if you're feeling lucky. There are no point deductions for using it.

Example Scenarios

Here is a look at a single puzzle (you get 5 day in each set) and how two different players scored:

Results: Player 1 received a higher score even though they took more than 5 minutes to solve this one puzzle. In general it's better to take much more time than to use letter reveals for a high score.

Once you finish your 5 daily puzzles you'll see how you ranked globally on the Daily Summary screen. That puts you in the top 38% of players so far.

You'll also be able to view Global Stats: Score, time, clue reveals, and letter reveals. You'll also see Top Wrong Guess (where you can see where others went wrong). There's also a global score distribution chart to check out.

Raveled is a global game, so a new set of puzzles is released for everyone at the same time: UTC-4 (Midnight EST). The countdown timer on the summary screen shows you exactly how long until the next challenge is available.

If you follow @RaveledGame on X, we post a daily reminder when the new puzzles are live, what the theme for the day is, and what tomorrow's theme will be.

Automatic Saving: Your score, completion time, and puzzle statistics are automatically saved to your browser the moment you finish a puzzle. You never have to worry about losing your hard-earned results.

Score History: View a detailed history of all the puzzles you've completed. You can see your high score, days played, best individual puzzle score, fastest solve, your current streak (how many days in a row you played), and your maximum streak. You can also view the calendar to see how you did for that particular day.

Archives: You can view every puzzle we've ever released in the Archive. You can play any past puzzle, but it won't count towards your daily streak or stats. This is a great way to catch up if you miss a day, or to practice puzzles on topics you find interesting.

Raveled has 50 unlockable badges that reward everything from careful strategy to raw speed to long-term dedication. Badges are awarded automatically at the end of each game when their conditions are met. No tracking required.

Rarity Tiers

Badge Paths

Badges are organized into five thematic paths. Each path rewards a different style of play:

• Scholar Rewards accuracy and clean solves: no wrong guesses, no letters revealed, minimal reveals across all five puzzles.
• Velocity Rewards speed: under 15 seconds on a single puzzle, three puzzles under 30 seconds, or all five completed in under five minutes total.
• Devotion Rewards consistency: daily streaks from 7 to 60+ days, 50 to 365 games played, and appearances in the global top 10%.
• Strategist Rewards smart decision-making: coming back from wrong guesses, using the free letter wisely, finishing under the wire, or persisting through a difficult day.
• Secret Hidden achievements with undisclosed conditions. Playing at unusual hours, hitting an exact score, cumulative lifetime milestones. You'll have to discover these on your own.

Prestige & XP

Every game you complete earns XP, which contributes to your prestige level. XP is awarded for finishing a daily puzzle, solving individual puzzles, hitting 750+ on a puzzle, and playing clean (no wrong guesses, no clues, no letters). Unlocking badges also grants bonus XP based on rarity.

There are 10 prestige levels, from Newcomer all the way to Legend at 20,000 XP. Your current level and progress are shown in the Stats screen.

Proud of a high score? Want to challenge a friend? After completing a puzzle, you'll see a 'Share Score' button on the results screen. Clicking this will generate a unique, spoiler-free summary of your performance that you can post on social media or send directly to friends.