A private daily-puzzle leaderboard
Make a game
of your games.
You play the daily puzzles. Your friends play the daily puzzles. Right now, separately — on different phones, in different rooms, never knowing who's actually best. Pumpkin stitches all of that together into a private weekly leaderboard for two to four friends. Same puzzles, new reason to win them.
Free, private, and never asks for a credit card.
Turn a habit you already have
into a thing you do together.
Solo daily play is the default. Most people knock out the morning puzzle alone, hit Share, and never see how anyone else did. Pumpkin adds the layer that's missing: invite two or three friends with a single link, everyone pastes their share each day, and a private weekly competition just happens.
Running totals, automatic scoring, end-of-cycle winner, gentle stakes. No screenshots, no group-chat math, no spreadsheet. The app handles the scoreboard so you can stay focused on the part that's actually fun — beating your friends.
Two to four friends. One paste a day. Lowest score wins the cycle.
How it actually works
Pick two or three friends who play
Anyone who already does the daily Wordle or Connections is a candidate. Two-to-four players makes the best competition. Send each one a single invite link and they're in — no app to download, no account hoops.
Everyone pastes their daily share
Each day, after you finish the puzzle, tap Share and paste the result into the app. One paste, one second. The app reads the official NYT share text, scores the day, and updates the running totals for the whole group.
Each cycle, a winner emerges
Lowest total wins the cycle. The app shows what each loser owes the winner under your group's settings — defaults to $20 plus a buck per point, fully voluntary, never touches your bank. Settle in cash, Venmo, beer, or a running tab. Or set the payouts to $0 and play for pure bragging rights.
Three groups have been playing for two months.
Peek in.
Public, frozen, and seeded with real share text. The scoreboards, payouts, comments, and stats are all real data.
Magical Mystery Word
The full experience — daily totals across both games, weekly winners, the whole stats page.
VisitAcross the Wordle
For groups that just want the one puzzle. Same scoring, same payouts, one column on the board.
VisitCome Together
For Connections purists. Mistakes are points; zero mistakes is a flex.
VisitWhat it doesn't do
It doesn't touch your money.
Payouts are voluntary — a group handshake. The app does the math and shows what's owed, then steps out of the way. No bank link, no Venmo integration, no credit-card form anywhere. Set the payouts to $0 and play for pure bragging rights if that's your speed.
It doesn't charge you.
Free to set up, free to play. There's no premium tier, no upsell, no ads. The whole thing is a friend's project — one person, two friends, and a habit that wouldn't go away.
It doesn't peek over the fence.
Your group is only visible to invited members. Outsiders can't browse it. There's no public directory of groups, no leaderboard you'd appear on. The only public groups are the three demos linked above.
It doesn't ask you to count.
No spreadsheets, no manual tallies, no end-of-week math night. Paste each day, get a notification when a friend submits, watch the chart fill in. The app handles the scoring, the cycle, the payout.
Who would you invite?
Think of one or two friends who already play the dailies.
Set the group up in under a minute. Send them the link.
Got an invite link from a friend? Open it directly to sign up and join in one step.