Puzzle Day0.2.1 - App Store

Puzzle Day is a growing collection of bite-sized puzzles-fun, weird, and refreshingly different. Every week, a new one is added. Every day, a fresh challenge awaits.

Hi, I’m Kurt. I’m a game designer and a dad. A few months ago, I lost my job. Instead of panicking (okay, I panicked a little), I decided to make you the best puzzle game on the planet!

Puzzle Day is my way of turning that gamble into something real-one puzzle at a time. It’s a home for all the quirky little puzzle ideas I’ve had over the years but never got to share. Some are clever. Some are silly. Some are surprisingly tricky. All of them are built with care.

Here’s what you’ll find inside:

. Numby - The first of many! A clever little number-matching game with daily and random modes
. Pathwords - Each words last letter is the next words first letter ... it's ... forget it, just try it
. Burbs - Stranger Things meets Sudoku in this simple game of logic and deduction
. Hoots - The smallest possible match 3 game you've ever played. It's fast, it's cute, and it's a hoot
. New puzzle (almost) every week - I’m building and releasing new games right inside the app
. Daily mode - Play once a day, share your score, and try to beat your friends
. No accounts or logins - Just open and play
. Quick and satisfying - Most puzzles take just a few minutes, but you’ll want to replay
. Fun for your brain, not your wallet - You can support the app by watching ads (thank you!) and enjoy it for free

Why I'm Doing This

This app isn’t backed by a big company. It’s just me, in my home, designing, coding, testing, and sharing games. I’m also sharing the journey of trying to make $100K in 100 days by building indie games and posting about it on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube (@kurtiswow).

Every ad you watch, puzzle you share, or kind comment you leave helps me get a little closer to that goal-and helps me support my family doing what I love.
Coming Soon:

More puzzle types (word, logic, grid-based, memory, timing)

Achievements, streaks, and unlockables

Special limited-time puzzles and events

Your feedback! I’m reading everything and building features based on what players ask for

Thanks for checking out Puzzle Day. I hope these little puzzles brighten your day the way building them brightens mine.

- Kurt

Follow the journey: @kurtiswow on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube

Version History Word Swing is here! Is it a golf game with words, or a word game with golf? We may never know, but it's a lot of fun to play it! Try it out :) 0.2.1 08/16/2025 The UI 2 update (as I'm calling it) is live! This is a full redesign of the main menu. It's slicker, it's brighter, it's more ... puzzle-y (but is that a good thing? you decide). I'm so hype for this update! There's stat tracking, there's a bottom nav, there's a tile layout for all the games and a place to highlight upcoming or featured puzzles! It sets the foundation for all the features I plan to build (you have no idea!!). I hope you love it as much as I loved making it! Thanks so much for playing! 0.2.0 07/25/2025 Burbs patch! I finally finally finallly found the bug that has been breaking all? of the levels in Burbs. There was a line that was meant to skip inactive clues, instead it was skipping clues that were not target specific. So if a clue was like, "There's nothing in this block" (which is kinda important as a clue), the target is "none" instead of "vampire" or "alien". Well, the code would skip these clues. I'm so hopeful this finally fixes this little puzzle, it's truly one of my most loved creations in recent memory, and I absolutely adore making levels for you all ... so I'm hoping it finally works now so that you all can see what is so special about it! Here's hoping!! 0.1.6 07/21/2025 Hoots has landed! It's the tiniest, cutest, sweetest lil match three game this side of the mobile phone! But how did I get a match 3 game to fit in a 3x3 grid you ask? I don't know, somehow it just works. That's kinda how game design works. You have ideas, you try them, a lot of times what you thought was neato in your head doesn't work ... at all, and then sometimes, it works even better than you thought. Hoots is the latter :) Plus, I did a lot of little fixes to Burbs, and Pathwords including all new daily puzzles for both. Special thanks to everyone sending me messages and screenshots and ideas and support! This update feels really special for some reason. Seeing the 4 puzzles in there, it just hits different. Hope you enjoy playing it as much as I enjoyed making it! 0.1.5 07/19/2025 New puzzle! Beasts and Burbs, help a neighborhood terrified of a vampire, a ufo, a haunted VHS cassette, and a sentient ... toaster? Hide from the walking bread!!Fixed (hopefully) the issue with Pathwords where the same puzzle loaded everyday (that's sad)Added next week's "Coming Soon" puzzle, Hoots ... it's a ... wait for it ...... wait for it ...... no seriously keep waiting ...... you know what's coming? right? ...... ok fine, here! IT'S A HOOT!!!!!See you next week, thank you so much for supporting me and my craft and my family with each ad. I know it sounds strange, but each ad you watch directly supports me and my family. And maybe, if enough people do that, I can do this without wondering how much time I have left to do it. 0.1.4 07/07/2025 Hi, some friends sent me some bugs to fix on numby where it wouldn't detect a win. the issue is that at one point you'd have to get 0,0,0 as one of the goals, but there were gameplay issues with that, like if you make a 9,9,9 then does it turn in to 0,0,0 instead of 0,1,0? and if not, then what does a 0,0,0 turn into? a 0,1,0? MAAAADNESSSS. anyway, when i removed 0,0,0 as a goal, the win detecting function was left behind like Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. so that should be fixes as well as an issue where the code checks to see if you're out of moves before checking to see if you won ... so that can be a frustrating moment where you're about to win on your last move and instead of winning it tells you you're out of moves. NOT FUN. so i fixed all that (at least when it was working after some coding and i tested it) but if you run into other bugs, send them along. and thanks again to everyone out there playing!! it means so so sooo much to a guy trying to provide for his family and follow his dreams! 0.1.3 06/29/2025 Pathwords is now available to play! 0.1.2 06/27/2025 Formatted Numby tutorial dialog at the top of iPhones.Fixed a bug in Numby where 9,9,9 = 0,10,0. Now it is 0,1,0.Added a version number to the bottom right of the main menu. 0.01.1 06/18/2025 0.01 06/17/2025