Daily Skyline support & FAQ

A skyscraper puzzle (also called towers) is a Latin-square logic puzzle, not a daily format by itself. You place building heights so each row and column uses every height once. Numbers on the edges tell you how many rooftops are visible from that side — taller buildings hide shorter ones behind them. Daily Skyline is a free 5×5 daily of that classic for iPhone.

Yes. A free Easy 5×5 is at https://dailyskyline.muratoncu.com/play, with a new board every day. It is a web warm-up, not the app’s shared daily, and nothing is saved. The daily puzzle, streak, freeze, and Skyline Points are in the app.

No. You can play right away. Progress stays on your device. Game Center is optional if you want leaderboards and achievements.

Yes. Each calendar day produces one deterministic board, the same skyline for every player.

Each number tells you how many buildings you can see looking into that row or column. Taller buildings hide shorter ones behind them.

Skyline Points are a skill rating that starts at 800 and stays on your device. Each solve is compared with what your rating expects: beating that puzzle’s typical time with few mistakes and hints raises it; slower or messier solves add less, or lower it. Running out of chances, or leaving the day’s puzzle unfinished, counts as a loss. The Top % on Stats compares your current rating to other installs anonymously. It is not the same as “faster than X% today” on Home, which is only about today's solve times.

Streak Freeze can cover a single missed day. You earn a freeze every 7 streak days, and you can hold up to two. The app spends one automatically the next time you open it after a gap. If you had no freeze left, the run resets.

If reminders are on, you can get a daily puzzle reminder around the hour you usually play. A second, later “last call” fires only when today's puzzle is still unsolved, your streak is alive, and you have no freeze left. Both are local notifications on the device. We do not send them from a server.

Turn them off in Daily Skyline Settings, or in your phone’s notification settings for Daily Skyline (on iPhone: Settings → Notifications → Daily Skyline). That covers both the daily reminder and the last-call streak reminder.

Progress, streak, freezes, and Skyline Points live on the device. Removing the app or clearing its data resets them. Skyline Points ranking also mints a new anonymous install token after a reinstall, so you start a fresh rating in the pool. Device backups sometimes restore local data.

Yes. Open the archive to replay recent past puzzles if you missed a day. Archive clears do not keep the public “players solved today” counter growing.

On iPhone, add it from the Home Screen: touch and hold an empty area, tap Edit, then Add Widget, and choose Daily Skyline. It shows your streak and a mini skyline. It does not need an account.

In Settings, Reduce Motion calms transitions and juice. The puzzle rules stay the same. On iPhone, the app also follows the system Reduce Motion setting.

Yes. New installs get a short guided intro — a wordless demo, a few exercises, and a guided 5×5. You can replay it any time from Settings.

Milestones mark things like streak length or solving a puzzle you failed earlier. Newer ones include Steel Frame (14-day streak), High-Rise (60-day streak), and Rebuild (clear a puzzle you had failed). They stay on your device with your other progress.

In the app, a hint can walk you through where to look, which rule applies, and the answer for one cell. Taking the help still counts as using a hint for that cell. The sample puzzle on this website uses a simpler fill-in hint.

On the App Store for iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/app/daily-skyline/id6791111716. Free to download, no account required.

Android is in a closed beta on Google Play. Join it at https://dailyskyline.muratoncu.com/android-beta.

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