# Puzzle Moment — Calm daily puzzles

> Calm daily puzzles (iPhone/iPad app by Sebastiaan Pasma.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/puzzle-moment/id6788026922 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Sebastiaan Pasma](https://appshunter.io/developer/1327601844)
- Category: Games, Entertainment, Puzzle, Word
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.1 · 46 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-07-10
- Data updated: 2026-08-20
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/puzzle-moment/id6788026922/reviews.md

## What is Puzzle Moment?

Puzzle Moment brings fresh puzzles every day, made for calm play. No restless animations, no clock breathing down your neck, no notifications. Just you and the puzzle.

The app is designed for e-ink screens such as the Boox, but works just as well on a regular device. High contrast and large touch targets.

Puzzle types:
- Classic Sudoku, from 4×4 to 12×12. Difficulty follows from the solving technique it takes.
- Sudoku X: the classic rules, with each digit also appearing once on both diagonals.
- Killer Sudoku: no given digits; the cages with sum totals show the way.
- Binary puzzle (takuzu): keep zeros and ones balanced, never three alike in a row.
- Nonogram: colour the squares by the numbers and a picture appears.
- Futoshiki: place each digit once per row and column; the signs show greater and smaller.
- Hitori: shade squares so no number stays white twice in a row or column.
- Kakuro: a crossword of sums; every run adds up to its clue number.
- Tectonic: fill each block with the digits 1 up to its size; equal digits never touch.
- Number search: cross out the digit sequences; the leftovers form the final code.
- Number path: lay a path across digits and plus and minus signs to the target numbers.
- Word maker: make as many words as you can from the given letters.
- Word search: every word can be found exactly once; the leftover letters spell the solution word.
- Fill-in: cells sharing a number share a letter; the highlighted column spells the solution word.
- Arrowword: a crossword with its clues inside the grid.
- Knight's jump: jump along the eight letters like a chess knight and find the hidden word.
- Codebreaker: a crossword without clues; every number stands for a letter.
- Crossword: the classic, across and down.

Games:
- Tents and Trees: pitch one tent next to every tree; tents never touch.
- Klondike solitaire and FreeCell: every daily deal is winnable.
- Crazy eights: the familiar shedding card game against the computer.
- Sliding puzzle: slide the tiles into order.
- Peg solitaire: jump pegs over each other until one remains.
- Mahjong solitaire: find the free pairs and clear the stack; you can never get stuck.
- Way Out: steer the marked block to the exit.
- Pipes: rotate the pipes until everything connects to the source.
- Memory: find all the pairs.
- Tower of Hanoi: move the tower in as few moves as you can.
- Lights Out: every press toggles a light and its neighbors; darken the whole board.
- Secret Code: crack the symbol code.
- Merge (2048): slide equal numbers together and reach the target.
- Connect Four, Reversi, Sea Battle, Dominoes, Draughts, Nine Men's Morris and Mancala: board classics against the computer.
- Rumms: lay runs and groups of numbered tiles and empty your rack.
- Fleet Review and Rain Well: logic puzzles, always solvable by pure reasoning.
- Dice Game: roll three times and pick your category.
- Chess Puzzle: white to move and mate in one or two.
- Block Pop: pop groups of equal blocks; bigger groups score more.

Nine games do not wait for the next day: start the Dice Game, Crazy eights, Connect Four, Reversi, Dominoes, Draughts, Nine Men's Morris, Mancala and Rumms as often as you like, free of charge. An unfinished game is easy to pick up later.

The word puzzles follow a daily theme. Play offline; your progress is saved and syncs once you are connected again. No account, no email address, just your device.

Today's puzzles are free every day. Puzzle Moment Extra opens the archive of earlier days, lets you practise without limit on extra number puzzles and puts you on every puzzle's leaderboard; watching is always free. My records keeps your best times and scores, you can link several devices, and two weeks of upcoming puzzles sit on your device for a holiday without internet.

Text size is adjustable, boards are zoomable and the app works with VoiceOver.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Puzzle Moment Extra | $2.99 | per month |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.6.1 — 2026-08-18

New in this version:
- In sudoku and the other number puzzles the digits were squeezed together so tightly that they were hard to hit. They are now always big enough for a fingertip, and they spread over two rows as soon as they no longer fit side by side.
- Erase and Notes moved to a line of their own, so they no longer push the digits out of the way.
- Fixed: the bottom button partly disappeared behind the keyboard. Exactly enough room is now kept free.
- Fixed: a leaderboard time could be cut down to a wrong number, so 1:39 appeared as 1:3. Numbers now always stay whole; when room runs short the name is shortened instead.
- Fixed: the daily theme under the word puzzles broke off halfway. On a narrow screen today's theme and tomorrow's now sit one above the other, both complete.
- Fixed: on a large screen the progress bar and the Tap letters box in Word Maker sat against the left edge instead of centred. The same applied to the clue lists in the crossword and the filippine.

### 1.6.0 — 2026-08-15

Bug fixes and Design updates

### 1.5.0 — 2026-08-14

New in this version:
- New game: Rumms, the tile-laying game with numbered tiles. You lay runs of consecutive numbers in one colour, or groups of the same number in different colours.
- More room for the board on small screens. The app used to assume a fixed margin below the board; now it measures what your screen actually offers. On a small phone the board more than doubles in size.
- The buttons under the board now sit side by side instead of stacked, and pausing has moved to the new pause button at the top.
- The zoom buttons are off by default, leaving more room for the puzzle. Switch them back on with the Options button at the top, under Show zoom buttons. You can always zoom by pinching with two fingers.
- Fixed: opening two puzzles in quick succession could leave the first board on screen, showing numbers that puzzle cannot contain. Restarting the app helped; that is no longer needed.
- When the board runs past the screen, an arrow along that edge shows which way there is more. Tap it and the board moves half a screen that way. A zoomed board now uses the full width.
- In the filippine, all the clues are now listed below the board with the letter count beside each, the way they are printed on paper. Tap a line to jump to that row.
- Fixed: the rules text on the start cover would not scroll, leaving the last tips out of reach. For the same reason the board could not be panned sideways in the crossword, the Swedish crossword, the filippine and the code cracker.
- Full screen: the bar with the clock and notifications at the top is now hidden, so nothing interrupts you while you puzzle. Swipe down from the top edge to bring it back, or switch it off in Settings.

### 1.4.0 — 2026-08-07

- Free play: eight games no longer wait for the next day. Start a new round whenever you like of the Dice Game, Crazy eights, Connect Four, Reversi, Dominoes, Draughts, Nine Men's Morris and Mancala. Those games began the same way every day, so one a day made little sense.
- Free play is included in the free app. If a game has several difficulties, you pick one with the buttons at the top.
- Your earlier games are listed underneath, with the date and your final score. A round you left halfway picks up exactly where you stopped.
- In the Dice Game your highest score now counts, with a leaderboard for today, this week, this month and all time. No single throw decides your place.
- Sea Battle keeps its daily puzzle: there the fleet is laid out differently every day, and that is precisely the puzzle.
- Extra puzzles and games outside the daily set now count towards your own statistics and records. Your daily streak still follows the daily puzzles.

### 1.3.0 — 2026-08-06

- Animations and vibration (in Settings, off by default): cards, draughts pieces and tiles move along if you want them to.
- Four new games: Fleet Review (find the hidden fleet by pure reasoning), Rain Well (a brand-new puzzle of our own design), and against the computer Nine Men's Morris and Mancala.
- Statistics now show the details per difficulty, your fewest moves and highest scores.
- New: My records, a personal ranking per game. Play against yourself and beat your own best times and scores (with Puzzle Moment Extra).

## More apps by Sebastiaan Pasma

- [Choice Spinner](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/choice-spinner/id1522154145)
- [Penal App](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/penal-app/id6475668867)

All apps by Sebastiaan Pasma: https://appshunter.io/developer/1327601844

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