Daily Number Puzzle for Beginners: Play Today’s Sumthread

Sudoku asks you to hold nine constraints in your head at once. Wordle asks you to know words. This asks you to add small numbers and not lift your finger. The rule: one path through every tile, no diagonals, no revisits, and your running total must hit each target in order; when it does, the tile locks, and you start counting again from zero. The last target has to land on the last tile. That is the whole game, and it is enough.

Questions first, puzzle second

What is Sumthread?

A number-path puzzle with one rule: trace a single continuous path through every tile on the grid, up, down, left or right, no diagonals, no revisits, while hitting the ordered target sums at the top in exact sequence. Each time your running sum reaches the active target, that tile locks as a checkpoint and the next segment starts from zero; the final target must land on the last tile. The puzzle above is the same rule on a 3×3 board.

Is this a good daily number puzzle for beginners?

The rule fits in one sentence, the small boards are forgiving, and there is no clock. In the app the Starter Threads collection is 3×3 with two or three targets, which is where this page's puzzle lives; the 4×4 daily board and the larger collections are where it gets properly hard.

How do I get started if I am stuck?

Count backwards. The last target must finish on the last tile, so the final segment is often the easiest to pin down. Then look for a corner: a corner tile has only two neighbours, so a path can only pass through it one way or start or end there.

Is Sumthread free?

The listing describes 100% offline play with no account, no ads and no third-party tracking, and mentions no purchases. We have no evidence of one either way; if that changes we will update this page.

Does it have a daily puzzle?

Yes: one fresh 4×4 board generated each day, with local completion history and spoiler-free emoji-grid sharing, per the listing. The page puzzle changes with the day of the week, so it is a daily of its own, smaller.

What is a Clean Weave?

Finishing a board with zero hints and zero undos. The app gives it a seal; this page gives you nothing but the satisfaction.

Wednesday, 7:50 am, made up but familiar

7:50Kettle on. The 4×4 daily in the app: targets 9, 12, 12, 13. You start in a corner, because corners only have two ways out.

7:53Second target reached one tile early, which means the segment is wrong, not the arithmetic. Drag back two tiles. The amber ring appears on the right one.

7:57Last target lands on the last tile. Clean Weave, no hints, no undos. The emoji grid goes to the family chat with no spoilers in it. Kettle has boiled.

Today’s board

3×3 · tap or drag · no clock

Current segment: 0 / —Tiles used: 0 / 9

Tap any tile to start.

Solution:

If the sum is right but the tile count is wrong, the path is wrong. Count tiles, not numbers.

Four daily puzzles, compared for a beginner

Wordle

Rules to hold: One: guess the five-letter word in six tries
Needs: Vocabulary
Time: A few minutes
Forgiving?: Six tries, then it is over for the day

Sudoku

Rules to hold: Three at once: row, column, box
Needs: Patience and a pencil habit
Time: Ten minutes to an hour
Forgiving?: One wrong digit can poison a region

KenKen

Rules to hold: Sudoku's rows and columns plus arithmetic cages
Needs: Arithmetic and the Sudoku habit
Time: Varies by size
Forgiving?: About as much as Sudoku

Sumthread (ours)

Rules to hold: One: a path through every tile hitting the targets in order
Needs: Adding numbers to about 20
Time: About five minutes, per the listing
Forgiving?: Backtrack by dragging; pause mid-path; no clock

How the app runs it

One continuous thread.Drag across adjacent tiles or tap step by step; backtrack by dragging backwards or tapping an earlier tile on your path.
Reach and exact-match cues.Dashed borders show the tiles you can move to; amber marks the neighbour that would complete the active target. Both are on the page puzzle too.
Daily, saved, collected.A fresh 4×4 daily with local history and emoji sharing; automatic local save mid-path; five collections from 3×3 starters to 4×5 boards; five board themes and high-contrast borders.

Sumthread First Thread: a 3 by 3 board with ordered target sums 12, 11 and 10, a teal path through 5 of 9 tiles and an amber checkpoint ring — Starter Threads: 3×3, the same shape as the page puzzle.

Sumthread Daily Challenge: a 4 by 4 daily thread for Monday 2 November with four ordered targets, a week of completion history and a 3-day streak — The daily 4×4 and its local history.

Sumthread Deep Weave board in Charcoal Dark theme: a 4 by 4 grid with targets 15, 11 and 13 and a path through 4 of 13 tiles — Deep Weave in the Charcoal Dark theme.

Honest limits

Brand new.Released 2 November 2026, version 1.0.0, 3.8 MB. No reviews yet, and the five collections are what there is; the daily board is the renewable part.
Small numbers, real patience.The arithmetic never gets hard; the path-finding on 4×5 boards does. If you want hard sums, this is the wrong puzzle.
Solo, by design.No leaderboard, no account, no multiplayer. Sharing is an emoji grid.
iPhone, iOS 18.The page puzzle runs anywhere; the app does not.

Get Sumthread free

Sumthread. One path, every tile, targets in order. A fresh daily board, five collections, automatic save, no clock. 100% offline, no account, no ads.

A calm five-minute break

Sources

Sumthread on the App Store, listing read 4 November 2026 (version 1.0.0): the rule, cues, Clean Weave, daily board, collections, themes, offline and privacy statements.

The page puzzle is ours and follows the app's published rule; it stores nothing. Descriptions of Wordle, Sudoku and KenKen are rule summaries, not reviews.