The daily challenge: one course a day, the same for everyone
Daily Flight is a daily challenge game in the tradition of Wordle: there is one shared puzzle each day, it takes a few minutes, and the result is something you can compare with friends. The puzzle here is a paper plane obstacle course.
Why everyone gets the same course
Most endless runners give every player a different random course, so leaderboards end up measuring luck and free time as much as skill. Daily Flight does the opposite. The obstacle layout for a day is generated from the date itself: the game turns the day number into a seed, and that seed produces the exact sequence of pencils, rulers, gaps and stars. Two people on opposite sides of the world, on different devices, fly a pencil-for-pencil identical course. Collecting stars never alters it: gap sizes, speed and when rulers appear follow the number of obstacles passed, not your score.
The practical effect is that every score on the daily leaderboard is directly comparable. If your friend scored 120 and you scored 95, they flew the same line better. That is the whole idea.
Easy, Medium and Hard days
Each day also has a difficulty rating, shown on the home screen before you fly, and it is the same for everyone that day. The rating is derived from the day number too, so it is not editorial and it does not favour anyone. It changes two things:
| Rating | Obstacle speed & spacing | Class thresholds | Pencils to Graduate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | 0.85× baseline | ×1.3 | 583 |
| Medium | 1.0× baseline | ×1.6 | 717 |
| Hard | 1.2× baseline | ×2.0 | 896 |
Because the thresholds scale with difficulty, reaching Class 12 or Graduating on the daily course is deliberately rare. Free Flight and friend matches use the unscaled ladder described on the how to play page.
Three attempts, one score
You get three attempts at each day's course. Only your best attempt counts, and it is posted to the leaderboard automatically. After the third attempt you can unlock one bonus attempt by watching a short ad. That is the only way to get a fourth try; there is nothing to buy.
Because the course is identical on every attempt, the first run doubles as reconnaissance. Players who memorise the awkward sections on attempt one routinely score higher on attempts two and three.
When the course resets
The course changes once every 24 hours at midnight US Eastern Time (ET), regardless of where you are. A countdown on the home screen shows exactly how long today's course has left. Using one fixed time zone keeps "today" the same day for everyone, which is what makes the leaderboard fair.
The leaderboard
The Ranks tab shows Today (the daily course) and All-time (Free Flight) boards, each filterable to Global or Friends. Players appear with their username, a country flag and, if they signed in with Google, their profile photo. Your report card after a daily run also shows the percentile of players you beat that day.
Guests post scores too, under an auto-assigned pilot name. Signing in with Google lets you choose a username, add friends, and keeps your scores and day streak across devices.
Streaks
Fly the daily course on consecutive days and you build a day streak, shown as a flame on the home screen and on a week or month calendar. One flight a day keeps it alive; the attempt does not have to be a good one. Days follow the same midnight US Eastern clock as the course. Every 7th day in a row earns a Spare Wing (shown as a 📝 sick note), you can earn one by watching a short ad on the streak screen, and you earn one when a friend flies your shared link for their first time (one a day). You hold at most two. Miss exactly one day and the next flight uses a Spare Wing automatically, so the streak carries on; miss two days and it resets.
Day numbers
Daily Flight launched on 17 August 2026, which is Day 1. Every day since adds one, and the number appears on the home screen and in the Instagram posts, so "Day 55" always refers to the same course for everyone.