Daily Akari No. 256 was submitted by nmk33. Originally they submitted this puzzle: puzz.link/p?akari/16/1... but it was revised to the one shown today. We decided together to also share this one separately.

Thanks to a generous player (and puzzle author) WYXkk, Daily Akari is now available in Simplified Chinese!

After thinking about it a while I've just made my Ko-fi page public. If you enjoy playing Daily Akari and want to help support it, you can do that here! Thanks! ko-fi.com/singfisher

Thursday's puzzle is actually the logo of a YouTube channel called "Icely Puzzles"

毎日パズルが出題される「Daily Akari」というサイトにて、本日8月23日ぶんのパズルを担当しました！ 解いてみてね！ https://dailyakari.com/

Aug. 21 is "World QR Code Day" and it's also my birthday, so I thought it was a perfect fit for the QR code puzzle that was submitted. I was surprised to find that you can read QR codes even through Daily Akari's UI. Thank you to @hugobdesigner.bsky.social for making it! dailyakari.com

ありがとうございます！

Originally the "Premiere" label was a special case when we would show a puzzle that had never been seen before. Now with all the help from your puzzle submissions it has become more normal for a while, so I'm considering removing that label🤔

Today's (Sunday's) puzzle by "brownie" is one of my favourite submissions. It is also definitely one of the most challenging puzzles we've shown. Please let me know how you find it! dailyakari.com

@singfisher.com istg i look up at the ceiling in my lecture hall and instinctively look for where i can and can't place lights

Today's (Monday's) puzzle is the Deltarune heart

We've been getting a lot of puzzle submissions lately, so I've needed to be more selective. I've been trying to increase difficulty throughout the week, but I might need to abandon that in order to show all the most interesting puzzle submissions quicker.

Starting to work on a new project soon so probably won't be able to make any big Daily Akari updates for a while. Hope to continue working on it more in the future!

Just pushed a change to reduce the padding on mobile (so the puzzle is bigger on screen)

Shoutout to _AtomicNeoN_ for letting us show their debut Daily Akari puzzle on Saturday! puzsq.logicpuzzle.app/puzzle/18398

Fun fact, today's (Monday's) puzzle is actually "Akari" written in braille

Today's puzzle by phenomist is probably the most difficult one we've shown yet. dailyakari.com

Streaming again! Fixing some bugs / improving the game. Maybe we can go over some past puzzles.

Sunday's puzzle is so hard that I'm adding a feature specifically for it

Doing a quick stream at www.twitch.tv/mistermard. Maybe going over some Daily Akari problems, maybe working on the game a bit.

Daily Akari has been growing in Japan recently so we now have a Japanese language option!

Another excellent puzzle by Carrick22 today. It's marked "Very Hard" but mostly due to its size. People have said it's fun and flowy! dailyakari.com

Another really tough but really good puzzle today (Saturday) by phenomist dailyakari.com

Thank you @flebpuzzles.bsky.social for sending in today's (Friday's) Akari puzzle! Really fun one. You can play on Daily Akari or via FLEB's original post below.

Today's (Wednesday's) puzzle is the first from puzzle setter Carrick22! I asked if we could feature some other Akari puzzles of theirs and it turns out they already had two other unpublished Akari puzzles that they kindly sent my way for the site!😮 You can find more from them here:

I hadn't chosen between Daily Akari and "Akardle" originally so we actually have both domains akardle.com

Today's puzzle by @hugobdesigner.bsky.social is very interesting. There are a few ways that you can solve it without guesswork but I don't think any of them are simple to spot. They all feel clever in their own way. I'm excited to hear what solution path people find. dailyakari.com #puzzle #godot

Sorry, the site was broken for a little bit! Just fixed it. I think it may have only affected certain time zones.

Yesterday's clever Akari puzzle was by Neonesque. They are a fellow puzzle game developer, you can see their games here: neonesque.itch.io

It looks like we're receiving another influx of puzzle submissions! I'm guessing people have been inspired by the first wave of submissions that started coming out this week!

We have a lot of submissions coming up in the next few weeks so I may not be able to shout them all out, but today's puzzle in particular by phenomist is one of my favourites. It's surprising that such a nice layout can also have such a clean and interesting solution path.

Right now the game always rotates the puzzle if it would make better use of the screen space. I'm trying to make adjustments today to not rotate the puzzle if the cell size would be big enough on screen anyway, and to not rotate if it wouldn't make much of a difference.

We've gotten some really amazing puzzle submissions since we released the puzzle submission form! Really looking forward to featuring them all.

A few other recent-ish updates I haven't posted about (1/2) ✅ Increased take-backsies window (for accuracy scoring) ✅ Short descriptions added to some settings ✅ Fixed cells getting stuck lit at low FPS ✅ Fixed iOS How To Play playing full screen ✅ Fixed X not disappearing properly sometimes

🥳🎉 Happy 100 days of puzzles!! 💯 百！ Just a couple days ago we also released the Daily Akari archive! Still can't comprehend the amount of support this game has received. Thank you for playing! dailyakari.com

Friday's puzzle is genius

I think the archive is all done! This is by far the biggest update yet, so I am just going to be reviewing the changes a bit before releasing it.

Sorry, recently the puzzles' difficulties haven't been completely accurate. I initially rated some of them before Pro Mode tracked your accuracy, and it was easier then to try things out without being penalized.

Today's (Wednesday's) puzzle is the first by Amzad Hosein! Amzad is actually my friend from university. He doesn't use social media, but he texted me this puzzle and I thought it was cute and had some clever logic. Thank you, Amzad! dailyakari.com

Another special submission today (Tuesday) from Siegfried! Some interesting logic here I haven't really seen before. Thank you!! dailyakari.com

Another excellent puzzle specially submitted by @cjquines.com today (Sunday)! We've had so many submissions lately that I'm realizing I've forgotten to shout them all out! I'll try to make sure to keep doing that. dailyakari.com

Daily Akari is most popular in 🥇 America 🏈 🥈 Japan 🎌 🥉 The Philippines ⁉️ I'm from Canada, so when we released I thought maybe most people playing would be friends from here. It's so cool to see people from all over the world enjoying the game! ☺️

The archive is basically working now but I still need to fix it up a bit before releasing it.

Saturday's Daily Akari puzzle is very special! Grant Fikes has generously allowed us to feature an Akari puzzle from his puzzle subscription service: "Outside The Fox Puzzles" Thank you, Grant!! mathgrant.blogspot.com/2024/11/outs...

@juliahenderson.bsky.social did all the sound design for Daily Akari! It seems to be one of the biggest reasons people enjoy the game so much. Check her out if you're looking for any sound design / music-related things! #gameaudio #gamedev #indiedev #vgm #vocalist #audio #sound

Today's (Wednesday's) puzzle is the first from @cjquines.com. Thank you!!

A new special submission today (Tuesday) from puzzle author phenomist! His work includes some of the most clever (and difficult) Akari puzzles I've come across. phenomist.wordpress.com dailyakari.com

We just released an option "Pro Mode 🎯" in the settings. If you turn it on it will also share your accuracy!

Trying to think of a way to dissuade random guessing without discouraging a certain degree of experimentation. Hopefully in a way that is natural... I'm not sure if it's possible. This is only really a problem on smaller puzzles. Any ideas?

Started working on an archive feature!