Buzzled
Colour hexagons to match each row's sum.
Buzzled is a daily logic puzzle played on a honeycomb grid where every hex holds a number and can be coloured yellow or black. Each row carries a pin showing a target sum and a colour, either yellow or black, and your job is to colour the hexes so the sum of that row's hexes in the pin's colour matches the target. It works out like a nonogram built on hexagons, driven by arithmetic instead of run-length clues.
What is Buzzled?
At its core Buzzled is a deduction puzzle. The board is a grid of hexagons, each printed with a number, and every row has a pin off to the side. That pin shows a target sum and a colour, either yellow or black. You cycle each hex through its colours until the hexes of the pin's colour in that row add up exactly to the target. Left-click moves a hex forward through the colours and right-click moves it backward, so you can correct a mistake without cycling all the way around. The board also has undo and reset buttons, so you can experiment and back out freely.
What sets it apart from most daily games is the shape and the maths. Wordle-style games ask you to guess and get coloured feedback, and standard nonograms use run-length clues along square rows and columns. Buzzled instead asks you to satisfy two-colour target sums across a hexagonal grid, so progress comes from arithmetic reasoning rather than pattern matching. Because the grid is a honeycomb, its rows run in more than one direction, and a hex can belong to lines that cross it at an angle. That overlap lets one solved pin help unlock several others. When a row is solved, its pin gains a green border, and clicking that pin auto-fills the row's remaining white hexes with the opposite colour, which speeds up the endgame.
Buzzled lives on Puzzmallow, a site that hosts a suite of daily word, number, and logic games, and it was made by a creator using the handle Usefulcat. The main puzzle is labelled CLASSIC DAILY followed by a number, so a fresh Classic puzzle arrives each day. There are four difficulty modes to choose from: Mini for a quick beginner-sized board, Classic as the standard daily, Expert for larger and harder grids, and Master, the hardest, where the hexes show no numbers at all and the pins only tell you how many hexes of a colour a row should contain.
The puzzle is free to play. A Premium membership tier exists, marked by a gold join link, and it unlocks extras including an archive of past puzzles under a Collections section. Feedback is entirely visual and lives inside the puzzle: pins turn green-bordered when a row is satisfied, and a timer runs at the top of the board, which you can hide if you prefer to solve untimed. It is a calm, self-paced solve. Nothing forces a wrong colour to stick, so you can experiment, back out, and reason your way to the finish at your own speed.
How to play Buzzled
- Open Buzzled at puzzmallow.com and pick a difficulty mode: Mini, Classic, Expert, or Master.
- Read each row's pin, which shows a target sum and a colour (yellow or black) for that row.
- Left-click a hex to cycle its colour forward; right-click to cycle it backward.
- Colour the hexes so the sum of that row's hexes in the pin's colour equals the pin's target.
- When a pin gains a green border, its row is solved; click that pin to auto-fill the row's remaining white hexes with the opposite colour.
- Use the undo and reset buttons to back out mistakes, and keep adjusting rows until every pin is satisfied and the whole board is solved.
Tips and strategy
- Start with rows whose target sum is very high or very low, since those force most or all hexes into one colour and give you fixed values to build on.
- Use the numbers already printed on each hex to check your arithmetic before committing; the target is an exact sum, not a range.
- Look for hexes shared between two rows, because solving one row often pins down a shared hex and cracks its neighbour.
- Right-click to step a hex backward when you overshoot, rather than cycling all the way around and losing track.
- Once a pin shows a green border, click it to auto-fill the rest of that row so you can focus on the unsolved rows.
- In Master mode remember the pin gives only a count of coloured hexes, not a sum, so lean on which hexes each row shares rather than the numbers.
Good to know
- Category
- Logic / deduction puzzle
- Resets
- Daily (Classic puzzle labelled CLASSIC DAILY #n)
- Cost
- Free, with an optional Premium membership tier
- Guesses
- No fixed guess count; solve freely until every row's sum is satisfied
- Modes
- Mini, Classic, Expert, Master
- Archive
- Yes, a Collections archive
- Creator
- Usefulcat, published on Puzzmallow
- Launched
- 2025
- Feedback
- Pins gain a green border when solved; on-screen timer (hideable)
Buzzled FAQ
Is Buzzled free?
Yes, Buzzled is free to play. There is an optional Premium membership tier, marked by a gold join link, that unlocks extras such as an archive of past puzzles.
How do you play Buzzled?
Each row has a pin showing a target sum and a colour. You left-click hexes to cycle their colour (right-click cycles backward) until the sum of that row's hexes in the pin's colour matches the target. Solve every row to finish the board.
When does Buzzled reset, and is there an archive?
The Classic puzzle is a daily, labelled CLASSIC DAILY followed by a number, so a new one appears each day. Past puzzles are collected in a Collections archive.
Is Buzzled like Wordle?
Not really. Wordle is a guessing game with colour feedback, while Buzzled is a deductive logic puzzle on a hexagonal grid where you colour hexes so each row's coloured hexes add up to a target sum.
Who made Buzzled?
It was made by a creator using the handle Usefulcat and is published on Puzzmallow, a site that hosts a suite of daily word, number, and logic games.