About FaunaGrid
A new animal puzzle every day. Nine cells, nine clues, one rule: the rarer your animals, the better you score.
FaunaGrid is a daily 3×3 grid built on the animal kingdom — mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates. Every row and every column has a clue — a line, a region, a animal feature, or a bit of wordplay — and each cell sits where a row clue and a column clue cross.
How to play
- Tap a cell and name a animal that satisfies both its row clue and its column clue.
- Each animal can be used only once across the grid.
- A correct answer scores that animal's rarity (0.1–100) — obscure animals score less.
- A wrong guess adds an escalating penalty — 30 for your first mistake, 60 for your second, 100 each after that — and you can try that cell again.
- Lowest score wins. Reach 1300 and you're locked out, so guess carefully.
Say a cell's row clue is Apex Predator and its column clue is Freezing or Colder Habitats. Polar Bear fits both — but so does a rarer animal like Snow Leopard, and the rarer your pick, the lower (better) your score.
Scoring
Your score starts at 900 and drops as you lock in correct answers. Wrong guesses add an escalating penalty — 30 for the first, 60 for the second, then 100 each — and once your score reaches 1300 you're locked out, so guess carefully. A perfect grid of nine obscure animals can score far lower than a perfect grid of nine common picks, so think rare, not just right.
Play, then share
Come back each day for a fresh grid. When you finish, copy your emoji result to share, and see how you stacked up against everyone else who played today.
Free to play, no account needed — it all runs in your browser. FaunaGrid is a fan-made puzzle. Animals data is approximate and community-maintained.