Every day at midnight UTC, every detective in the world receives the same ten cases — each of the five difficulties twice, once untimed and once as time attack — beginner, easy, medium, hard and expert. Same boards, same clues, same killer. That's the spine of Kludoku's competition: when you beat a daily in eight minutes, that time means something, because everyone else faced the same room.
Beginner dailies are compact 5×5 scenes; the ladder rises through larger grids to 10×9 expert cases that may carry a lying accomplice or a motive layer. You don't have to climb it all at once — solving any daily keeps your streak alive, and streaks are tracked per player, not per difficulty.
Solving earns points, and points earn detective ranks — Recruit up through Master Detective — which unlock the hardest difficulties. Points also feed a weekly race that resets every week, so newcomers are never permanently behind the veterans: every Monday the ladder is winnable again.
Each daily case has a global leaderboard; add friends to carve out a private one, or form a team with an invite code and compete as a squad. Guests rank too — you don't need an account to appear on today's board, though an account keeps your streaks and stats across devices.
Beyond the dailies, time-attack mode is pure speed: race the clock on fresh cases and chase best-time boards. It's a separate game list, so your careful daily solves and your reckless speedruns never mix.
The archive keeps past dailies — you can solve any day's day's cases from the app and see how the world did. (Streaks, of course, only count the day they were due. That's what makes them streaks.)
Play today's cases free — no download, phone or desktop.