Ping: Sonar Puzzle

Three nodes are hiding on an 8x8 grid. Tap any tile and it answers with a single number: how many steps, up, down, left or right, to the closest node you have not found yet. Read the numbers, work out where the nodes have to be, and capture all three in as few taps as you can. That is the whole game. No energy, and no timers on your patience. DAILY GAUNTLET • Four boards a day, the same four for everyone, generated from the date • One attempt, scored against par • Level 1 is clean. Then the modifiers arrive • Panic Room puts a clock on every turn • Broken Grid drops in black holes that pings have to route around • Total Chaos moves the nodes while you are hunting them • Keep the streak alive • Share your result as a card that shows your taps and never gives away a position ARCADE • Play a bot for the same three nodes • Every ping you make, it sees too, and every ping it makes, you see •…