Daily Crumble
One puzzle a day, the same for everyone, with a global leaderboard.
Rules
How to Play
Crumble is a scored word race. Build a crossword from your colored crumbs and score as many points as you can.
The goal
Build one crossword that uses every crumb you hold, and score as many points as you can. Speed matters in most modes, too.
Crumbs
A crumb is a chunky letter piece. Every crumb has a letter and one of four colors:
- Orange
- Blue
- Yellow
- Green
- Wild crumbs have a rainbow rim. Pick any letter when you place one, and tap it later to change it.
- Crumbs you haven’t placed wait in your crumb area (the tray). The rest sit face-down in the pile.
The crossword
- Words read left to right and top to bottom, just like a crossword.
- Every word must connect. Crossing words share a crumb, and that crumb counts in both words.
- Every word must be a real word, two-letter words included. Invalid words glow red, and you can’t Pull or Set while any word is invalid.
- Only your biggest connected piece scores. Crumbs left in other pieces cost −1 each.
The four moves
These are the big buttons in every game.
| Move | What it does | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Pull | Once every crumb you hold is on the board in valid, connected words, take a new crumb from the pile. In multiplayer, everyone takes one when anyone Pulls, but only the puller gets the points. | +2 each |
| Dump | Stuck with a crumb? Tap Dump, then the crumb you want to get rid of. It swaps for 2 new ones. | −4 each 3 per game |
| Crumble | Tap Crumble, then tap crumbs to send them back to your crumb area. Hold Crumble to clear the whole board at once. | Free |
| Set | Finish the game. The button lights up blue when a clean Set is ready: every crumb used and the pile empty. | Ends the round |
Handy controls
- Drag crumbs from the tray to the board, and drag them back down to take them off.
- Hold a crumb, then drag, to move its whole connected group at once.
- Shuffle and Sort by color buttons tidy up your tray.
Scoring & flushes
- Mixed word (more than one color): +1 per crumb.
- Flush: a word of 3 or more letters all in one color. Every crumb in it gets a multiplier equal to the number of letters minus 1, up to ×6.
- Two-letter words never flush.
- Wilds can fill a gap in a flush, but a wild scores 0 inside one. A wild at a crossing counts its color separately for each word, so it can help two flushes.
| Word length | Mixed | Flush multiplier | Flush score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 letters | 3 | ×2 | 6 |
| 4 letters | 4 | ×3 | 12 |
| 5 letters | 5 | ×4 | 20 |
| 6 letters | 6 | ×5 | 30 |
| 7 letters | 7 | ×6 | 42 |
| 8 letters | 8 | ×6 (cap) | 48 |
SUN in mixed colors3scores 3.
NET all green: 3 × 26scores 6.
Add an S to make NETS: 4 × 312scores 12.
Moves, penalties and bonuses
- Each Pull +2. Each Dump −4.
- Each crumb left out of your scoring crossword when the game ends: −1.
- Most modes reward speed: a time bonus for finishing fast in Free Play and Daily Crumble, and +24 for the first player to Set in multiplayer.
Twists
- Hot Color: flushes in the day’s (or level’s) Hot Color earn +1 per crumb.
- Rare Letter: shown with a gold star. A word of 4 or more letters that uses it earns +2 per crumb of that word.
Twists show up in Daily Crumble every day, and in the Campaign from World 2.
Modes
Free Play
Relaxed solo games with no opponents. Leave and resume any time.
Campaign
Handcrafted levels with stars to earn and a time limit to beat.
Multiplayer & Ranked
Race 2–8 players on one shared pile. Ranked is for real people only, for rank points.
New to Crumble? The game starts with a short, hands-on tutorial that walks you through all of this.