Frequently Asked Questions

PuzzleParty turns your daily puzzles into something social. Track your scores, share them with friends, and compete on friendly leaderboards called parties. Same puzzles you already love — now with bragging rights.

Yes — a free account keeps your scores, streaks, and parties in sync across all your devices. Sign up takes a few seconds.

No. Keep playing your puzzles wherever you normally do. PuzzleParty is where you bring your results to track and share them.

Your home screen shows your parties and the day's activity. Tap your avatar (top corner) any time for your profile, settings, this Help guide, and Support.

Finish a puzzle, tap its share button, and choose PuzzleParty — or paste the result in. See Sharing Scores for the details.

Two easy ways: share it straight from the puzzle using your phone's share sheet, or copy the result and paste it into PuzzleParty. We figure out the game and score for you.

After finishing a puzzle, tap Share, then pick PuzzleParty from the list. We'll read the result and add it automatically. (First time? Pick PuzzleParty once and it'll be there from then on.)

Copy your result to the clipboard and open PuzzleParty — we'll often spot it and offer to add it. You can also tap the pencil icon on a puzzle you haven't completed to enter it by hand. Most supported games allow manual entry, including Wordle, Connections, Mini Crossword, Strands, and more.

This is normal for new installs on iOS. PuzzleParty may start in the full share menu (extensions list) until you pin it to your favorites.

1. Open your puzzle app and tap Share.
2. Scroll to the right in the share sheet app row and tap ... (More).
3. Tap Edit in the top-right corner.
4. Find PuzzleParty and tap the green + button.
5. Tap Done.

PuzzleParty now appears near the left in your share sheet favorites.

Lots of the popular daily puzzles — and we're always adding more based on what players ask for. If a result won't import, it may be a game we don't support yet.

Make sure you copied the whole result (including the title line), and that you've finished the puzzle. If it still won't take, you can retry from your share history, or reach out via Support and we'll take a look.

Today's results submit normally. Older ones depend on the party — some parties pull in your recent past scores when you join (see Parties → Backfilling). For one-offs, share the original result if you still have it.

Each daily puzzle counts once per person, so leaderboards stay fair. Your first valid result for the day is the one that sticks.

A party is a group of friends comparing scores. Everyone shares their daily results and you all see a shared scoreboard. Make one for your family, your coworkers, your group chat — whatever.

From your home screen, create a new party, give it a name, and choose which games it tracks. You're the host.

Share your party's invite code or link. Anyone who taps it (or enters the code) can join — no account juggling required.

Tap an invite link or enter the invite code a friend gave you. You'll be added to their scoreboard right away.

The host runs the party and its settings. They can promote others to co-host to help manage it. Members play and chat. Only hosts/co-hosts change party settings.

Any score you submit for today counts toward the party right away. Some parties also pull in your recent past scores when you join, so you're not starting from a blank slate — this depends on the party's settings, so it won't always happen.

Members can leave any time. Hosts can pause a party (a break) or archive it (wrap it up) from party settings.

You get one point for every party member you beat on each game, plus one. Your day's total is the sum of those points across every game your party plays.

For example, in a 3-player party:

• Finish 1st on Wordle → 3 points (you beat 2 party members, plus one).
• Finish 2nd on Connections → 2 points (you beat 1, plus one).
• Miss the Mini → 0 points.
• Day total: 5 points.

If you don't solve a puzzle (or don't submit one), you get zero points for that game.

Because the daily total is the sum of per-game points, two players can reach the same total through different paths.

Example: in a 3-player party you finish 1st on Wordle (3 points) and 3rd on Connections (1 point) for a 4-point total. Your friend finishes 2nd on both (2 + 2) and also ends the day with 4 points. Same total, no shared placements.

Overall ties are a normal outcome under this system.

Missing a game — whether you didn't submit or didn't solve it — earns 0 points for that game.

The game still counts toward the ceiling of what you could have scored. In a 3-player party, skipping a game you could have won costs you up to 3 points that day.

Submitting consistently matters as much as placing well: a full card of 2nd-place finishes beats a mix of 1st-place wins and skipped games.

Yes — solving beats skipping every time. Even a last-place finish earns at least one point (you always get the "plus one"), and submitting consistently often beats a few big wins with gaps. Showing up counts.

Points reward how you did against your own party that day, so wildly different puzzles compare fairly and the leaderboard is about your group — not a global average.

Your profile and stats screens show how you're doing across games — averages, distributions, and trends over time.

They track how a given game's results move over days, so you can see yourself improving (or spot a slump).

A streak counts the days in a row you've kept up — both your personal streak and your party's shared streak.

Add at least one eligible score each day. Miss a day and the streak resets — so it's a fun nudge to keep playing.

When you hit a streak milestone, we throw a little celebration. Enjoy the moment — you earned it.

Spoiler hiding keeps puzzle-related content out of sight until you're ready to see it. When it's enabled for a party, three things are protected:

• Spoiler comments in the feed — messages tagged to a specific puzzle stay hidden until you've completed that puzzle yourself
• Puzzle entries in the feed — other members' results (scores, emoji grids, streaks) are hidden until you've done the same puzzle
• Daily scoreboards — the full scoreboard stays locked until you've completed all the puzzles represented on that day's board

New parties have spoiler hiding on by default. Party hosts can turn it off at any time in party settings.

Any member can choose "Show spoilers anyway" for themselves without affecting anyone else in the party.

Three things, until you've completed the same puzzle: spoiler comments in the feed, other members' puzzle entries (scores and emoji grids), and the day's scoreboard.

Yes — new parties have spoiler hiding on. Hosts can turn it off in party settings.

Yep. You can choose "Show spoilers anyway" just for yourself — it doesn't change anything for the rest of the party.

Each party has a shared feed where results and messages live together. Just type and send.

When someone's writing a message, you'll see a little typing indicator — same as your favorite messaging apps.

Yes. You can tag a comment to a puzzle; if spoiler hiding is on, it stays hidden from anyone who hasn't done that puzzle yet.

Keep spoilers tagged, cheer each other on, and remember there's a real person on the other end of that scoreboard.

Tap your avatar → My Profile to update your name and how you appear to friends.

Pick from our avatar options or upload your own. Your avatar shows up across your parties.

Frames are decorative rings around your avatar that let you show a little personality. Equip one from your profile.

Friendly nudges: a daily reminder to play, plus alerts when something happens in your parties (a friend joins, scores come in).

Of course. Manage notifications from your device settings (and any in-app toggles). Keep the ones you like, mute the rest.

Check that notifications are enabled for PuzzleParty in your phone's system settings, then reopen the app. Still stuck? Support can help.

Yes. Sign in on any device and your parties, scores, and streaks come with you.

We keep your data secure and use it to run your scores and parties. See our Privacy Policy for the full picture.

Tap your avatar → Logout. You can sign back in any time without losing anything.

Yes! The core experience — tracking scores, creating and joining parties, competing — is free, and there are no ads. PuzzleParty Plus is an optional subscription for players who want a little extra.

Plus is an optional subscription that adds extra features and helps keep PuzzleParty running — and ad-free — for everyone.

Three things:

• Deeper stats — extra breakdowns and insights beyond the standard stats.
• More profile frames — extra frames to dress up your avatar.
• Keeps PuzzleParty ad-free — your subscription is what lets us skip advertising entirely. Going Plus supports that for everyone.

Manage or cancel Plus any time through your app store account (App Store or Google Play), just like any other subscription.

No worries! Open Support from your avatar menu to send us a message — or email support@puzzleparty.app — and we'll get back to you.