01 · Cipher
Rookie
Forgiving.
Leaves enough breadcrumbs to learn the loop. Beat the Rookie and the rest of the game opens up.
iOS · iPhone
Crack the3-digitcode.
A pure deduction puzzle. Pass-and-play with a friend, hunt three AI opponents, or sharpen yourself on one Daily Challenge a day.
Coming soon Free to play. One-time unlock for the hard AI. No ads, ever.
The mechanic
Three digits. Three signals. No hand-holding.
Every guess returns counts, not positions. The game tells you how many you hit. Where they land is yours to figure out.
- 01
LOCK
Right digit, right slot. You found a fixed point. Now isolate the others.
- 02
GUESS
Right digit, wrong slot. You know it's in the code. You don't know where.
- 03
MISS
Not in the code. The whole digit is gone. Cross it off and move on.
Solo mode
Three opponents. None of them flinch.
Pick the AI that matches your patience. Each tier picks its codes and reads your guesses with a different kind of cruelty.
02 · Vault
Professional
Steady.
Won't gift you the win. Won't hunt you down. The middle line where deduction actually has to work.
03 · Echo
Impossible
Relentless.
Plays the optimal counter to your last guess. Most games end with the Impossible AI solving you in five.
Daily Challenge
One code. Every day. Globally.
Same seed, same puzzle, every player. Solve it before midnight, build the streak, share the emoji grid.
- Date-seeded so the puzzle is identical worldwide
- Streak counter that you can actually lose
- Share Results as an emoji grid, like the puzzle game you're thinking of
- Saved locally on device. No cloud, no account, no leak
For your brain
A puzzle, not a slot machine.
Most mobile games are designed to consume your attention. TriCode is designed to sharpen it. The mechanic only rewards focus, working memory, and deduction. There's nothing else to optimize for.
Working memory
You hold partial information across guesses. The game does not summarize. You do.
Pattern isolation
Each guess narrows the space. Spotting which digit can't be in which slot is the entire skill.
Pure deductive logic
There is no luck. No probability layer. A perfect solver wins in five. You can train to get closer.
Bounded attention
A round ends. The Daily ends. There is no infinite scroll. Play, finish, put the phone down.
We don't claim health outcomes. We just refuse to design against your attention.
The anti-game-design promise
What TriCode will never do.
A list of patterns the mobile game industry treats as default. TriCode opts out of all of them, by design, forever.
- No ads.
Not on launch. Not in v2. Not as a banner, an interstitial, or a rewarded video.
- No accounts.
No email. No login. No social graph. You don't exist to a server.
- No tracking.
Zero analytics. Zero third-party SDKs. The privacy nutrition label reads Data Not Collected.
- No infinite scroll.
Every round has an end state. The Daily is one puzzle, then you leave.
- No energy or lives system.
No timers, no cooldowns, no buy-to-keep-playing. One optional one-time unlock for the hard AI, then nothing else to spend on.
- No dopamine traps.
No confetti spam, no streak guilt, no notifications begging you back.
Game Center
Eight ways to prove the crack.
Optional. Plays nice if you have Game Center signed in. Invisible if you don't.
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First Crack
Win your first round.
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Rookie Down
Beat the Rookie AI.
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Pro Beaten
Beat the Professional AI.
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Beat the Impossible
Beat the Impossible AI.
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Three in a Row
Three daily wins in a row.
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Lucky Seven
Seven daily wins in a row.
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Quick Crack
Solve in fewer than five guesses.
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Flawless Daily
Daily win with zero missed digits.
Get it
Crack the code today.
iPhone, iOS 17 or later. English and Spanish. Free to play with a $2.99 one-time unlock.
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