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Every card
has to climb.
Four ladders. One rule: a card must beat the one it lands on. Fill a ladder to clear it. Let the high cards box you in, and you're out of moves.
DOWNLOAD ON THE APP STORE Free on iPhoneFree, with no ads. Today's Daily takes a few minutes.
Where does the 7 go?
Tap the ladder you'd put it on.
SENT HERE BY A FRIEND?
Seen one of these?
That's someone's Daily, told without giving the deck away. Each block is one moment of their run, left to right:
- ▓A ladder cleared.
- █A perfect — four in a row, like 7, 8, 9, 10.
- ░A card burned — thrown away to stay alive.
HOW IT PLAYS
One rule, and its consequences.
Drop
You're dealt a number. Put it on any ladder where it beats the card on top. Empty ladders take anything.
Clear
Fill all four rungs and the ladder clears. Tight runs score more; four in a row doubles it.
Burn
Can't use the card? Burn it and take the next one. You start with five, and earn them back: one every four clears, and one for every perfect.
Don't get stuck
High cards are the dangerous ones. Drop an 18 and that ladder is finished — almost nothing can beat it.
NO DOWNLOAD NEEDED
Play a round right now.
Endless runs in your browser on the same engine as the app — the same deck as it hardens, the same scoring, the same burns. It takes about a minute to find out whether you like it.
- Any phone, and any computer. Android included. Add it to your home screen and it opens like an app.
- It keeps working offline, and your best score stays on your own device — there's no account and nothing to sign up to.
- The Daily stays in the app. One deck a day, dealt the same to everyone: a browser that could hand you today's deck early would spoil it for every other Climber.
THE DAILY
One deck a day.
Every Climber gets the same one.
Every morning there's a new deck, dealt identically to every Climber in the world. You get one go at it, so a score means something — and tomorrow there's another.
- One go. No restarts and no second tries. The run you play is the one on the board.
- A real leaderboard. Every score is checked by replaying its moves before it's accepted. You can't post a number you didn't play.
- A streak for every day in a row you come back.
THE NAME
Hashigo means ladder.
It's also the everyday Japanese term for a pub crawl. はしご酒, hashigo-zake — literally a liquor ladder — is moving from one bar to the next, sampling something different at each. You climb it a rung at a time, and each one is higher than the last.
There's a phrase for when it goes wrong, too. はしごを外す — to remove the ladder — is to cheer someone up onto something and then take away what they were standing on. That's the deck, late in a run.
QUESTIONS
Everything people ask.
What is Hashigo?
Hashigo is a free number puzzle game for iPhone. You're dealt one number card at a time and drop it onto one of four ladders, where it has to beat the card on top. Fill a ladder's four rungs to clear it and score. The run ends when a card has nowhere to go.
How do you play Hashigo?
Each card must be higher than the card it lands on; empty ladders take anything. Four cards fill a ladder and clear it, and tighter runs score more — four consecutive numbers, like 7, 8, 9, 10, is a perfect and scores double. You start with five burns to throw away a card you can't use, and earn more back by clearing ladders.
Is Hashigo like Wordle?
The Daily is. Every Climber in the world gets the same deck each day, you get one go at it, and you can share your result as a spoiler-free strip of blocks. There's also Endless, a fresh random deck every run, for as long as you like.
What does the Burn button do?
It throws away the card you've been dealt and deals the next one — your way out when a card has nowhere good to go. You start each run with five burns, shown as red dots on the button, and earn them back: one every four ladders you clear, and one for every perfect. Run out of burns with a card that fits nowhere, and the run is over.
When does the Daily reset?
At midnight where you are. There's a new numbered deck every day, and a streak for every day in a row you play. An optional morning reminder tells you yesterday's rank and that today's deck is ready.
How is the leaderboard kept fair?
Every Daily score is checked by replaying its moves on the server before it's accepted, so you can't post a number you didn't play. There are no restarts and no second tries: the run you play is the one on the board.
What is a crawl?
A crawl is a private leaderboard for the Daily. Start one, name it, and send the invite link to family or friends; every Climber in it plays the same deck and the crawl shows how you rank against each other. You can be in up to three.
What are wilds and the joker?
Later in a run, a wild card can turn up. It lands on any ladder and becomes one higher than the card beneath it. Played on a 20 it becomes the joker, a 21 — and as a ladder's fourth card, it rescues a ladder you'd given up on.
What does Hashigo mean?
Hashigo (梯子) is Japanese for ladder. Hashigo-zake (はしご酒), a liquor ladder, is the everyday word for a pub crawl: moving from one bar to the next, a rung at a time. That's why the people who play it are Climbers.
Is Hashigo free? Is it on Android?
Hashigo is free, with no ads and nothing that follows you around the web. It's on the App Store for iPhone. Android is coming: there's no date yet, and you can leave an address on the home page to get one email when it's ready.
A LOOK INSIDE
The climb, on your phone.
OUT NOW
Ready to climb?
Hashigo is free on the App Store. Today's Daily is waiting, and you get one go.
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KEEP IT RUNNING
Free, with no ads.
Hashigo is made by one person, and the servers that run the Daily and the leaderboard aren't free. If you enjoy it, a coffee helps keep it going.
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