How to Play Daily Orbs

Daily Orbs gives you four puzzles a day. You can do them in any order, and you can skip one. The public how-to-play page is the rulebook I follow here. Pricing and privacy answer the questions that page leaves out, and I keep those answers labeled.

Scoring

Hearts and orbs

Picture one puzzle as a short row: three empty circles and three hearts, drawn in that puzzle’s color. Orange is the first row on the home screen, then green, blue, and purple. A correct stretch fills a circle. A miss removes a heart. The circles you filled stay filled if the hearts run out. The other three puzzles keep their own hearts, so a lock on the Latin puzzle does not touch the medal table.

The pricing page is where the money is stated. I read it on 13 Nov 2026: the game is free with ads, and Premium is US$4.99 a month or US$39.99 a year before applicable local taxes to remove ads, billed through Paddle, with a 14-day window to refund the first payment or a yearly renewal; monthly renewals are not refundable. That is one page, so the price row is marked 1 source. I am not repeating a number from a second shop because I did not find one.

The privacy page says you can play without handing over a name or an email. The email login exists to keep progress when you switch browsers. “6 orbs daily game” and “six orbs game” are search spellings of this same rule, not a different mode.

The official waiting message says 5:00 AM Toronto. An earlier independent wiki snapshot reported 10:00 UTC: these agree on 13 November 2026 (EST), but a fixed UTC time and a local-time schedule would differ in summer; the public rulebook does not resolve that seasonal difference.

A round, in order

1. Open dailyorbs.com and pick any of the four puzzles.
2. Read the one-line description, then answer the pairs, the buckets, or the list.
3. Stop at six orbs if you only want the win, or clear all twelve.
4. Use 5:00 AM Toronto as the current-date reference from the official waiting message. Older dates remain available through the archive.

Long word-list puzzles are the exception called out in the public format notes: they do not spend hearts. If a board does not say that, assume the three-heart rule applies.