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Life & fun · March 23, 2026

Daily Unfold – A paper folding puzzle game

I built a daily puzzle where a piece of paper is folded and hole-punched, and you predict where all the holes end up when it's unfolded. It's the kind of thing I used to do in grade school with actual paper and scissors, and it turns out the mental version is a surprisingly good spatial reasoning challenge. Three difficulties each day: easy is a 4×4 grid with one fold, hard is 6×6 with three folds. It's built with Next.js. The puzzles are generated deterministically on the fly using a daily seed. The engine runs a forward simulation of the paper folds using 2D coordinate mirroring, then…

Daily Unfold – A paper folding puzzle game launched on March 23, 2026 with 6 votes, #1,631 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

A piece of paper is folded along dashed lines and a hole is punched through, your job is to predict where all the holes appear when the paper is unfolded. Three puzzles every day (easy, medium, hard) plus a timed Expert mode with a global leaderboard. Free, no signup, plays in your browser.

A free daily puzzle game like Wordle for spatial reasoning. Paper is folded and hole-punched — predict where all the holes appear when unfolded. 3 new puzzles every day: easy, medium, and hard.

Daily Unfold is a free daily puzzle game for spatial reasoning — think Wordle, but for visualizing folded paper. Each day you get a fresh sheet that has been folded along the dashed lines and then hole-punched through every layer. Your job is to predict exactly where all the holes will appear once the paper is unfolded. It is a deceptively simple idea that turns into a genuine mental workout. You are shown the folded, punched paper. Tap the grid to mark where you think each hole will land when the sheet is opened back up, then submit to watch the paper unfold and reveal the answer. The closer your prediction, the more stars you earn — three stars for a perfect read. New to it? The full…from dailyunfold.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

I built a daily puzzle where a piece of paper is folded and hole-punched, and you predict where all the holes end up when it's unfolded. It's the kind of thing I used to do in grade school with actual paper and scissors, and it turns out the mental version is a surprisingly good spatial reasoning challenge. Three…

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