Saturday, 17 October 2026
Beat as many of the 16 opponents as you can. You play all of them at once with the same placement, so you are not looking for the best split, you are looking for the split that beats the most people.
With people
No puzzle of the day
Five Fronts is played against the room rather than against a board. There is no arrangement to work out and no answer to find: what you are reading is the other players, and on your own there are none to read. So it has no daily, no streak and no place on the daily board, and it lives in a lobby instead, which is where it is one of the best things here.
Five Fronts
Beat as many of the 16 opponents as you can. You play all of them at once with the same placement, so you are not looking for the best split, you are looking for the split that beats the most people.
- Put all 20 tokens on the 5 fields.A field is worth what its number says. Whoever puts more tokens on it takes that weight, and an exact tie means neither of you does.
- Commit.The same placement is then played against all 16 opponents at once. You beat an opponent by taking more total weight than they did.
- Look at what beat you.Here is the thing people get wrong. There is no best answer. Spreading evenly loses to somebody who abandons two fields and swamps three. Swamping three loses to somebody who spread. You are guessing what they will do, not solving it.
Scored on duels won.A lobby game. There is no puzzle of the day.
What the words mean
- A field:
- one of the 5 places you can put tokens. Its number is what it is worth to win it
- A token:
- one of your 20. All of them must be placed, and none of them can be held back
- Weight:
- the total value of the fields you took in one duel. More weight than your opponent wins it
- A duel:
- your placement against one opponent's. You fight all of them at once with the same placement
- The opponents:
- the placements you are up against. In a lobby they are everybody else in the room, and nothing about them is known until they have all committed; on the practice page they are 16 dealt from a seed, each playing a habit real people play