Perceptle Archive: play a previous date.

How to select a historical puzzle

1. Open the homepage game or perceptle.com directly. This guide does not contain a second archive or replace the original’s controls.
2. On the original’s home screen, choose Archive. That button also appears on its completed-results screen.
3. Scroll the archive list. Newest dates appear first. Each row contains a puzzle number, a localized month and day, and either play ▸ or a saved score and grade. The current date also says today.
4. Select the row. If the date has no completed result in this browser, the original opens Event 1 of 5. Read the Count instruction and press Ready when you want to start.
5. Complete all five events for that dated result. If the row already has your completed score, selecting it opens the saved results instead.

Use Back at the bottom of the original’s archive to return to its home or today’s saved result. If you are in an active event, avoid leaving just to inspect another date: the inspected original does not expose a saved checkpoint for a partly completed five-event run.

How to find a Friday puzzle

Look for 🃏 beside the date. It marks the original’s Friday variations, including moving dots, ricochets and multi-turn angles. Select that row and check that the puzzle header also carries the joker marker.

The first week has an important exception: July 24, 2026 is a Friday on the calendar, but puzzle #7 uses normal rules. The reviewed game enables Friday variants from puzzle #14 onward. Follow the joker marker and the displayed instructions rather than relying on the weekday alone.

Before playing, read the five Friday control examples. Our standalone exercises train normal-mode skills; they do not provide a Friday mode.

Which dates are available, and when does today change?

In the October 17, 2026 review, the original listed 92 dated puzzles, from #1 on July 18, 2026 through #92 on October 17, 2026. Its list is generated from today back to puzzle #1; future dates are not listed. July 18 is the start of that puzzle calendar, not evidence of a public launch or a traffic milestone.

The daily date comes from the browser’s local calendar. Someone already on Saturday can see a normal Saturday puzzle while another player still on Friday sees the Friday variant. Dates may also use your browser’s language, so a month can be displayed differently from the English examples above.

If the expected newest row is missing, check the device’s date and time zone. If the game has stayed open across local midnight, finish or leave the current run first, then reload: the reviewed application reads its daily date when it starts.

A puzzle number identifies a date in the original’s calendar. It does not identify the number of games you have completed or a score.

The archive of puzzles is different from your saved results

The list offers dated puzzles whether or not you have played them. A score shown next to a row means the original found a completed result for that date in its browser storage. A row showing play ▸ means no such completed result was found in that storage context.

• Completed original date: all five event scores, the total and grade are saved together after the set. Reopening that row normally shows its result.
• Partly played date: the inspected implementation does not save an event-by-event checkpoint to resume from. Reopening an unfinished date can start it again.
• Keep playing: a random full-set practice round, labeled practice round · not recorded. It does not fill a dated archive row with a new recorded daily result.
• Our single-skill practice: this companion stores separate local best scores, last scores and round counts. Those records do not populate the original Archive.

The original’s result screen can request server comparison data. That comparison and the browser’s saved result are separate: a message such as no server connection · playing solo does not, by itself, mean the locally saved result is gone. See the storage and iframe explanation for what each site handles.

Why is my result missing, or why does a date open a result?

The date opens a score instead of a new run

The original found that date’s completed result in this browser and restored it. The reviewed archive does not show a separate replay button on each completed row. For a fresh complete set, choose Keep playing; for another recorded historical set, choose a different unfinished date.

I played that date, but its row says play

1. Confirm the date and puzzle number, especially if you crossed midnight or changed time zones.
2. Use the same device and browser where you completed the set. Another browser or a private window has different storage.
3. Try the same entry route: direct original tab or the embedded original. Privacy settings can isolate or restrict embedded-site storage.
4. Check whether you finished all five events or played Keep playing. An interrupted run and unrecorded practice do not produce the same dated saved result.

If site data was cleared or a private session ended, this companion has no backup that can restore the original result. Do not clear site data as a first troubleshooting step: that can remove more completed results. For a blank game or blocked storage, follow the problem-specific troubleshooting guide.

Choose the extra round you actually want

For example, opening a Friday archive puzzle on a Saturday gives you that dated Friday set. Choosing Keep playing afterward uses Saturday’s normal variant in the reviewed game. To continue working on the Friday changes, choose another unfinished joker-marked date.