FORGE archive
Every past daily puzzle. Green ones you have finished. Playing an old puzzle does not change your streak.
Every past daily FORGE, newest first. The archive starts on October 28, 2026, the first day of Brainiac Play. A past puzzle never changes, so the tiles and target are the ones everyone had that day.
The week ramps up. Monday has five small tiles and a two-digit target with many ways to hit it. Sunday has six tiles including big ones, a three-digit target and only a few ways. Every puzzle was solved by a program before it was published, so there is always an exact answer. Archive puzzles do not count toward your streak.
How to play FORGE
- Drag one tile onto another and pick plus, minus, times or divide from the ring that pops up. Each button shows what it would make. Or tap a tile, tap an operation, then tap another tile.
- The two tiles melt into one tile with the result. Tiles glow hotter the closer they are to the target, and the ingot at the top fills up.
- Subtraction and division put the bigger number first for you, because tiles stay whole numbers above zero. If a merge cannot work, the tiles shake and say why.
- Make the target to light the forge. You do not have to use every tile. Undo takes back the last merge as often as you like.
- On a keyboard, type a tile's number to pick it, press + - * or / for the operation, type the second number, and press Enter or Backspace to undo.
- Stars: three for hitting the target in at most one merge more than the minimum with no hint, two for any exact answer, one for finishing within 10 of the target. The first hint is free and lights the two tiles to merge next; asking again shows the operation. Each hint after the first costs a star. When the target can no longer be made, the bench says Dead end so you can Undo. Finish with extra merges and you can replay for par. Show me ends the puzzle with no stars.
A worked example: puzzle #1, October 28, 2026
The tiles for puzzle #1 are 2, 5, 5, 6, 7 and 9, and the target is 130. One way is 2 times 5 is 10, then 6 plus 7 is 13, then 10 times 13 is 130. That is three merges, the minimum for this puzzle.
There are many other routes that also work. Any exact route earns two stars and the shortest ones earn three.
Latest puzzles
| Puzzle | Date | Recap |
|---|---|---|
| The first FORGE puzzle comes out on November 7 (New York time). | ||