KEEPYBOO
The KEEPYBOO logo beside a board of numbers and × marks, a ghost popping out of a glowing cell, and the five Keepyboos lined up in front

KEEPYBOO

A logic puzzle of hidden ghosts

Find the ghosts hiding on the board, using nothing but the numbers.
Nothing is left to luck — all 2,000 puzzles solve by reasoning, start to finish.
Nothing rushes you, and there is no one to keep up with. Play at your own pace, for the long run.

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How it works: why none of the 2,000 puzzles needs a guess

The numbers tell you where they are

Ghosts are hidden somewhere on the board. All you can see are numbers.

Read them and the board resolves a cell at a time — this one is empty, that one has to hold a ghost. You never tap and hope. Every ghost, down to the last, is found for a reason.

A 9×9 board in play: numbers and × marks across the cells, the ghosts already found, and a child's-room wallpaper showing through behind it

Three things to remember

  • A number in a cell counts the ghosts in the eight cells around it.
  • A number at the edge of a row or column counts the ghosts in that line.
  • Mark the cells you've ruled out with an ×.

Reveal a cell with no ghost in it and you lose one of three lives. Lose all three and the puzzle starts over — you lose the moves, never your progress.

Your first time in, you start on a tutorial board that walks you through it — each move, and the reason for it — so you can start without reading any of this.

The tutorial, with Keepy explaining why the next move is forced and pointing at the cell to mark

Screens

The round list, grouped by difficulty, with a best score and time kept for each puzzle
Pick a round
The Tips library, using a drawn board to explain which cells to read first
Read the techniques
A 9x9 board on the night-sky theme, with the moon, stars, an angel and an owl showing through the gaps
Change the wallpaper
The characters screen, listing Keepy, Mimo, Zuzu, Piri and Tobi with a note on each one's temperament
Meet the crew

What's in it

2,000 puzzles, ten sets

EASY through ULTIMATE, with boards growing from 4×4 to 9×9. A small board takes a few minutes; a large one takes as long as you like. Every puzzle is saved on its own, so you can go a little at a time.

At your own pace, for the long run

No time limit. Nothing that compares you with friends. Take a break for a while — your progress and everything you've collected stay just as they were. Just one puzzle today is fine.

It's a game for working through 2,000 puzzles, little by little, at your own speed.

You don't have to be a maths person

The first 160 puzzles — EASY — are built entirely from moves where a single number gives you the answer. Later sets add new kinds of move: comparing two numbers, then assuming a ghost is somewhere and finding the contradiction. The boards grow, but that isn't where the difficulty comes from.

Every technique is written up in the Tips library, one at a time, illustrated on a real board.

Solve it, and a second puzzle opens

Come back to a round you solved by pure logic and the ghosts now show faintly. The question is no longer where they are, but in what order to catch them. On the same board the order can change the score several times over, and only the best order earns the diamond.

The ghosts, and things to collect

The five Keepyboos: Keepy, Mimo, Zuzu, Piri and Tobi

Keepy, Mimo, Zuzu, Piri and Tobi — the Keepyboos. They chatter away beside you while you think.

As you go, new wallpaper themes, sound sets and ghost friends join you. Milestones in puzzles solved, diamonds and crowns, your Logic Rating — more than 50 rewards mark the way on a long journey.

Questions

Isn't this Minesweeper?

The numbers read the same way. Very little else does. One wrong tap doesn't end the board — there are three lives. Nothing comes down to a coin flip: every one of the 2,000 puzzles has been checked to solve by reasoning alone, all the way to the end. And rows and columns carry totals too, so you can work the whole board at once.

How the no-guessing guarantee works, in detail

What does it cost?

EASY, NORMAL, HARD, EXPERT and MASTER — 1,110 puzzles — are free, with no time limit and no play limit. Past those, EXTREME (690 puzzles) and ULTIMATE (200) are paid, and the first 20 and first 10 of them are free to try. Beyond that, you can buy the ads away, and some of the wallpapers and sound sets are for sale (others are earned by playing). Everything is a one-time purchase. There is no subscription.

Are there ads?

In two places: occasional ones between rounds, and a video when you ask for a hint. The hint button is marked “Ad”, so a video only starts when you tap it (we ask once, the first time). You can buy the ads away.

Does it work offline?

Yes. A connection is only needed to show ads and to back your progress up.

Will my progress follow me to a new phone?

Progress backs itself up automatically. Link a Google account in the settings and it comes with you to a new device.

What languages does it speak?

Fourteen: English, Japanese, German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional).

Who makes it

Bit K.K. / Bit Corp. (株式会社ビット)

Contact: contact@keepyboo.com

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