Tango Game Unlimited: play as many as you like

No limit, no waiting

How Tango Game Unlimited works

Tango Game Unlimited is the place to play when one puzzle a day isn’t enough. There is no waiting for tomorrow’s Daily: open the page, press Play, and when the board is done another one is a single tap away. Like the rest of the site, it costs nothing, runs in any modern browser and asks you to create nothing.

What only Unlimited does

The Daily gives everyone the same board for a whole UTC day. Unlimited instead hands you a random puzzle from the ones already out, meaning today’s Daily and every Daily before it, and lets you swap it for another at any moment. You never wait for midnight UTC, and you never run out of a turn: the toolbar’s New game button starts a different board whenever you like, and the success dialog offers the next one as soon as you finish.

Because the puzzles come from the same collection as the Daily, the status row names each one by its number, as in “No. 7 · Unlimited”, without a date. That number is the puzzle’s permanent name, so you can look it up in the Archive later or tell a friend exactly which board you mean.

That makes Unlimited suit any length of break. Play a single board while the kettle boils, or settle in for a long run and see how your times change from one board to the next. Since the timer restarts with every new board, each puzzle gets its own clean time, and nothing carries over between them.

The rules in brief

You fill a six-by-six grid with suns and moons. Each line ends up with an even split of the two, no symbol appears three times running, a pair linked by = must match, a pair linked by × must differ, and the starting symbols stay put. Those five rules decide every cell, and each board has a single answer that pure logic reaches. The How to play page walks through every rule with pictures and worked tips.

Placing and planning

Each tap on an open cell moves it one step along a loop: a sun first, then a moon, then blank again. Cells that came with the puzzle ignore your taps. Nothing on the board warns you about a wrong symbol while you work, so it pays to place a symbol only when you can say why it belongs there.

When you play several boards back to back, a little planning goes a long way. Before your first tap, scan the whole grid once for the easy wins: markers beside starting symbols, lines that are already half full, and spots where two matching symbols sit next to each other or one gap apart. Clearing those first leaves you a smaller, calmer puzzle, and the habit makes every following board faster.

If a board stops making sense, look for the line with the fewest open cells and ask what each symbol would do there. Usually one choice breaks a rule straight away, which tells you the cell holds the other.

Playing one puzzle after another

New game

New game sits first in the toolbar, to the left of Undo. Press it and a different puzzle starts at once, whether or not you finished the one in front of you. There is no confirmation step and no cover to click through: the fresh board appears with the timer already running from zero, an empty move history and no hint on screen.

The new pick is random among the puzzles already out, and it is never the board you just had. That is the only exclusion, though, so a board you played earlier in the session may turn up again later. Reloading the page picks afresh too, and the first board after a reload waits on its cover until you press Play.

Next puzzle after a solve

Finishing a board opens the success dialog, and its main button, Next puzzle, makes exactly the same move as New game: a different random puzzle, started straight away. If you would rather look at the finished grid first, close the dialog with its × button, Escape or a click outside it, and use New game when you’re ready.

Reset or New game?

The two buttons solve different problems. Reset keeps the same puzzle and wipes only what you placed, so the starting symbols remain and the clock goes back to zero; use it when you want another attempt at this board. New game throws the board away and brings in a different one; use it when you want a change. Reset is also how you replay a board you’ve already solved.

For smaller slips there is Undo, which steps back through your moves one at a time without touching the rest of the board. Undo, Reset and New game together mean a wrong turn never costs you more than you choose to give up.

Hint and your results

Stuck partway through? Hint looks at your board and, if one of your symbols is wrong, points at that cell first. With no mistakes on the board, it highlights a cell you can settle now and gives the reason, leaving the tap to you. Asking for help has no effect on what gets recorded.

Each solve shows its time in the dialog next to your best for that puzzle number. A puzzle has one best whichever mode you meet it in, so a quick Unlimited solve of No. 7 also becomes No. 7’s best in the Archive. Each time a board comes up, only your first solve of it counts as its result; a replay after Reset shows your time but leaves the best alone. Each solve also keeps your Streak going for that UTC day. Both live only in this browser, not on a server.

When to switch modes

Want the board everyone else is solving today? That is the Daily puzzle. Want to work through past boards in order, or return to one by its date? The Archive lists them month by month, with your best time beside each puzzle you’ve solved.

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