Daily gives you a shared starting point
The daily set contains an easy, medium, and hard puzzle. Players opening the same daily challenge work toward the same targets, which makes it useful for comparing approaches. You might solve the easy board quickly and spend longer understanding one diagonal edge on the harder board. The set gives that exploration a clear beginning and end.
Daily puzzles change at 00:00 UTC. The countdown points to that shared reset, not a deadline for each fold. An open daily board loads the new day’s puzzle at rollover, while earlier saved records remain separate. Your local date may differ from the challenge date, so check the displayed day when comparing results with someone elsewhere.
Endless turns a solve into a new question
Endless is for the moment when completing one target makes you want another. Choose easy, medium, or hard as the starting difficulty; the sequence raises its difficulty as you progress, up to hard. Each accepted solve adds points immediately. You can continue to the next target without waiting for tomorrow’s daily set or finishing the whole session first.
An Endless board is separate from Daily and is grouped by the selected starting difficulty. A longer run contains more opportunities to earn points, while a daily result refers to a defined challenge. The Endless leaderboard keeps each browser guest’s best eligible run for that starting difficulty. Select the corresponding mode and difficulty when comparing results.
Practice gives experiments their own space
Practice is unranked. That makes it a comfortable place to investigate a fold you do not yet understand, repeat a type of shape, or learn the board controls. You can concentrate on a single relationship—such as where a corner lands after a diagonal fold—without treating the session as a public performance.
A useful exercise is to predict the entire footprint before you commit a move. Then compare your prediction with the result. If they differ, undo and follow one corner at a time. This kind of deliberate repetition develops a skill that transfers to the daily board, even when the exact practice target is different.
Use difficulty to choose the kind of thinking
Easy targets use recorded routes of two horizontal or vertical folds. Medium adds diagonal directions and uses three folds; hard uses four. Those counts describe known solution routes, not proven minimums. Harder puzzles ask you to follow more transformations, while a simpler target gives you more room to focus on position, direction, and the midpoint of one fold.
If the harder outline feels unreadable, step back to a simpler one and work on the same underlying idea. Folding a rectangle into a smaller rectangle teaches alignment. Folding across a diagonal teaches reflected corners. Combining familiar ideas is usually more productive than adding random folds to a board you cannot yet explain.
Keep the identity and scoring boundaries in mind
Crease Game uses an anonymous browser identity for ranked play. You do not need to create an account, but this is not cross-device account synchronization. A different browser profile or a cleared identity cookie may appear as a new player. Check your displayed alias if you are trying to locate your own result.
The server validates ranked submissions against the puzzle and calculates the result rather than accepting a client-provided total. Practice remains outside the ranking. These boundaries let the three modes serve different purposes without turning every exploratory fold into a leaderboard entry. The rankings guide explains what an anonymous result can and cannot establish.
Pick a small goal for your next session
Choose Daily when you want a finite set to return to, Endless when you want a longer run, and Practice when you want to test a specific idea. You can move between those goals as your confidence changes. A difficult daily target might reveal exactly the folding relationship you want to explore in Practice next.
The most useful session is not always the longest or the highest scoring. Sometimes it is the one where a previously confusing corner finally makes sense. Begin with a clear question, use the mode that gives you space to answer it, and carry that understanding into the next sheet of paper.