A star hides in every row and every column — one each, and never two touching. Find them all.
One per row. One per column.
Numbered cells count the stars in their touching cells — all eight directions, diagonals too.
This 1 touches exactly one star. A 0 clears its neighbours.
Tap cycles star → ✕ → clear. Submit grades exactly what you placed: right stars lock green, wrong ones lock red.
Once you start, the clock runs in real time — even if you leave — until you solve it. Score rewards fast, clean, bold.
Counts is pure spatial deduction: find the one hidden cell in every row and column from number clues that count what they touch, then lock it in. Every daily falls to a single forced line of logic — no guessing, ever. Counts is made by Puzzle North, in Canada.
Three levels each day — Easy (10×10), Medium (12×12) and Hard (14×14). Place a star and its row and column cross out for you; the X’s you add yourself are left alone.
Every daily is generated and verified to have exactly one solution reachable by pure logic — no guessing is ever required. Everyone in the world gets the same boards, and your score stands.
Made in Canada. A calmer corner of the internet, every morning.
No cookies. Counts stores a random id and your progress in your browser’s local storage. We never set tracking cookies and never share data with ad networks.
What we collect (18+ only, in aggregate): coarse region from your device’s timezone; coarse device context — type, operating system, browser, screen-size band, connection type, dark-mode and reduced-motion preferences, and where you arrived from (e.g. “a search engine”); your language; and how the game is played (plays, solves, ad views, how long a session lasts, how many days you’ve returned). If you arrive from a marketing link we read its campaign tag, and we detect whether an ad blocker is active. We also note, in aggregate, which advertiser categories (e.g. food, auto) our players tend to engage with — never tied to you personally. On browsers that support it (Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox), we read the coarse interest topics your browser chooses to share — you control these in your browser settings, and they are never linked to you. These are broad, bucketed signals — we do not fingerprint your device, and do not collect precise location, your IP, names, contacts, or any unique identifier beyond a random in-browser id.
Under 18: no analytics are collected at all — you just play.
Your choice: turn analytics off anytime in your profile. We honour Do-Not-Track and Global Privacy Control automatically.
How it’s used: only aggregate audience totals (with a minimum group size) are shown to sponsors. Your individual activity is never sold or shown.
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