This page looks at how the daily puzzle is actually played. Not which games are popular, that is what the ranking is for, but how hard the cells are, how many people complete a full grid, and how often everyone arrives at the same answer.
Period covered: 2026-03-20 to 2026-07-25
Share of completed puzzles by number of solved cells. Nine means a fully filled grid.
Within any single cell, an average of 37.3 percent of all correct answers go to one and the same title. Put differently: roughly every third to fourth solve lands on the same game, even though a dozen or more titles would usually fit.
On average 11.4 different games show up as the answer to a single cell. The gap between those two numbers is what the scoring system is built on. Playing the obvious title gets you through. Finding one of the rarer correct titles scores more.
These titles account for the largest share of solves whenever they are a valid option. They are the safe pick, and they score accordingly little.
These titles were a valid answer in the widest range of different cells. That measures how many categories apply to a game at once, not how popular it is.
Everything here is based on completed runs of the daily 3x3 puzzle. Each finished puzzle records which cells were solved and with which game. Nothing else feeds into the figures on this page.
Hardcore mode is deliberately excluded. It has sixteen cells instead of nine and noticeably tighter categories, and mixing the two would make any solve rate meaningless. Unlimited mode is excluded as well, because everyone gets a different grid there and the numbers would not be comparable.
Absolute counts per game are deliberately not published, only shares and orderings. Otherwise the numbers would reveal which titles reliably work in which categories, and that would spoil the puzzle for everyone else.
Related: Most popular Nintendo games · Play NintenDoku · About N-Puzzle