How to play Ordrly
The goal is always the same: take the item you're given and slot it into a list that's already in order — highest to lowest, oldest to newest, heaviest to lightest, whatever the category calls for.
The basics
Each turn you're shown one item and the chain of items placed so far, already sorted for you. You don't need to know the exact number behind an item — you just need to judge where it fits relative to everything already in the chain.
- Use the ▲ and ▼ arrows to move the highlighted gap up and down the chain to the position where you think the item belongs.
- Tap the highlighted gap to drop the item into place.
- If you placed it correctly, the chain grows and you carry on with the next item.
- If you placed it in the wrong gap, the round ends (Classic) or you lose a life (Multiplayer) — so it pays to think before you commit.
Classic mode
Classic is an endless run built around a single question: how long a chain can you make before you slip? There are no lives and no second chances — one wrong placement ends the run and locks in your score, which is simply the number of items you placed correctly. The tension is entirely yours to manage: every correct answer tempts you to keep going, but the more items are in the chain, the tighter the gaps become and the easier it is to misjudge one. Beating your own high score is the whole game.
Daily Challenge
The Daily Challenge is one fixed puzzle per day, exactly the same for everyone who plays. From the day's slate you choose five categories, and in each you make five placements. Every placement is worth up to 100 points, so a perfect day is 2,500.
Scoring rewards confidence: you get a one-second grace period at full marks, after which the points on offer tick steadily down until the item times out at twenty-one seconds. Answer quickly and correctly to bank the most points — but don't let the clock panic you into a wrong answer, because an incorrect placement scores nothing regardless of speed. Play every day to build up a streak, and share your result to challenge friends to beat your score on the same puzzle.
Multiplayer
Multiplayer turns Ordrly into a party game. You can play pass and play, with everyone sharing a single phone and handing it round, or online, where one player hosts a room and shares a short code (or a link) and everyone joins from their own device.
Players take turns placing items. Each player has a set number of lives; a wrong placement costs one life, and when your lives run out you're eliminated. Play continues until only one player is left standing — that player wins. In online games, everyone can watch the current player's move unfold in real time, so there's nowhere to hide a lucky guess.
Tips for a longer chain
- Anchor yourself with the extremes. Before moving the gap, glance at the top and bottom of the chain so you know the full range you're working within.
- Narrow down, don't leap. Decide roughly which half of the chain the item belongs in first, then fine-tune the exact gap from there.
- Mind the near-misses. Most mistakes happen when two neighbouring items are close in value. When the chain is long and crowded, slow down for those.
- In the Daily, speed is a bonus, not the goal. A correct answer at ten seconds always beats a wrong one at two.
- Learn the categories. The more you play, the better your instinct for scale becomes — and that instinct is what turns a short chain into a long one.