Fourfold guide

Ratings and assistance

Player and puzzle rating make fair matches possible while preserving a separate place to test new work.

Ranked

Ranked pairs signed-in players with established puzzles near their rating. Solve every quartet with no more than three mistakes and you win; the fourth mistake or giving up is a puzzle win. An eligible result moves both ratings.

Discovery and Casual play

Discovery helps new, human-approved puzzles find their level. An eligible result can move the puzzle's rating, but never the player's rating, ranked record, or streak. Opening a puzzle from Browse, a creator profile, or a direct link is Casual and does not affect either rating.

What can be rated

Only a signed-in player's first exposure to a puzzle version can count. Guest play, an author playing their own work, previews, replays, and practice after a loss are unrated. Once you make a guess or reveal a spoiler in a rated game, resume or concede that attempt before starting another rated puzzle.

Assistance has its own track

Revealing a creator-provided quartet hint before settlement ends the unassisted leg as a puzzle win. You can then continue the same board against that version's assisted rating: solve before the fourth total mistake for an assisted win. Revealing specialist topics or a spoiler-hidden structure label does not affect rating. Fourfold shows both rating legs and their net effect separately, and reveals after settlement cannot change either result.