WHEN DOES THE NEW PUZZLE COME OUT?
Every day at 00:00 New York time (Eastern Time). Everyone in the world gets the same five rounds that day.
IS ABACOTRON FREE?
Yes. The daily duel, VS against machines and people, ratings, seasons, friends and joining leagues are free, with no account needed for the daily.
WHAT DOES ABACOTRON PRO ADD?
The archive of every past duel, unlimited endless mode, creating leagues for up to 50 players, full stats, one streak freeze a month, and machine skins and card backs. It never changes the puzzles or the scoring.
HOW DO I PLAY WITH FRIENDS?
Sign in, open Account and share your friend code or link. Friends see each other’s daily score and duel result, and each other’s chains once they have finished the day. For a group, join a league with its invite code to compare weekly totals. To play live, create a room by code in VS and send the code: 2 to 8 players, the host starts.
HOW IS A ROUND SCORED?
An exact hit scores 700 + 300 × (the shortest possible number of operations ÷ the operations you used): 1000 when your chain is as short as possible. A miss scores 300 minus 30 for every unit you are away from the target, never below zero. Five rounds make up to 5000 points.
HOW DO I WIN THE DUEL AGAINST THE MACHINE?
Each round the machine lays down its answer at some moment after the target appears. You take the round if you hit the target exactly before it does, or if the machine misses and you hit it at all.
CAN I PLAY A DAY I MISSED?
Past days are in the archive with Abacotron Pro. A streak survives one missed day a month with its streak freeze.
HOW DOES VS AGAINST PEOPLE WORK?
Both players get the same cards. The first exact hit takes the round; if nobody hits within 90 seconds, the closest card wins (fewer operations breaks a tie). First to 3 rounds wins the match. Ranked matches move a monthly Glicko-2 rating and need an account.
DO I NEED AN ACCOUNT?
No. Without one your progress lives on this device. Signing in with Google keeps it across devices and unlocks ranked play, friends, leagues and Abacotron Pro.
CAN I GET A REFUND?
Yes: within 14 days of your first payment for a plan, email us with your order number and we refund it through Paddle, our merchant of record. Renewals are not refunded, but if something went wrong on our side we always refund. A full refund ends the plan it paid for.