Lanterns Daily
One quiet logic puzzle a day
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
One quiet logic puzzle a day. Light the board, build your streak.
Lanterns is a daily logic puzzle in the spirit of the Queens family of games — with a warm twist. Every day, everyone gets the same hand-built board. Place a lantern in every row, every column, and every colored region, with one simple rule: no two lanterns may touch, not even diagonally. Too close, and their light washes out.
The board starts dark and blank — it's pure deduction from the very first tap. Mark embers where a lantern can't go, and if you're ever stuck, ask for a hint: it reveals the next genuinely deducible move on your board. Never a guess.
THE PROMISE: NO GUESSING
Every daily puzzle is verified to be solvable by logic alone — a unique solution you can always reason your way to, never guess at. A lot of puzzle games skip this. We don't. If it can't be solved by deduction, it never ships.
THREE DAILY GAMES
Lanterns, Mini Sudoku (6×6, three difficulty levels), and Skyscrapers (a visibility-clue Latin-square puzzle) — each with its own daily puzzle, streak, and stats. Jump between them from the games hub.
A DAILY RITUAL
• One fresh puzzle every day, the same board for everyone
• A solve timer and a streak counter that rewards showing up
• A spoiler-free, emoji-grid result you can share — compare times, not solutions
• A dark board that illuminates as you solve, with regions that glow when satisfied
COMPETE, QUIETLY
• A global daily leaderboard for Lanterns — same board for everyone, one honest ranking of solve times
• Best-streak leaderboards for all three games via Game Center
• Entirely optional: no sign-in required, ever — leaderboards are there when you want them and invisible when you don't
CALM BY DESIGN
No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No network — your puzzles are generated right on your device, and your streak and history never leave it. Just you, the board, and one good puzzle a day.
HOW TO PLAY
• Tap a cell to mark an ember ("no lantern here"); tap again to place a lantern; tap once more to clear
• One lantern per row, per column, and per colored region
• No two lanterns may touch, including diagonally
• Light all the regions with no conflicts to win
Take a breath. Light the dark.
Ratings & Reviews
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Lanterns 1.6 — fairer times, friendlier first steps.
• New interactive tutorial: learn the rules by solving a guided mini-board. Replay it anytime from Settings.
• Play any solved day again from the Archive — just for fun. Your recorded time and streak stay untouched.
• Restarting the daily no longer resets your solve timer — times on the leaderboard are earned, not rehearsed.
• Fixed: Game Center scores now submit reliably when the app launches fresh.
• VoiceOver now announces hint-revealed embers on the board.
• Shared results and invites now include a download link, and Rate Lanterns takes you straight to the App Store.
Thanks for playing. Light the dark.
The developer, David Price, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
- David Price
- Size
- 4.1 MB
- Category
- Puzzle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © David Price 2026
