The Daily Manifest: a new lane puzzle every day
Field Ops has a new lane puzzle every day: bring six convoys home past the Cybernetic Concord raiders using as few pieces as you can. The same board for every Commander until midnight UTC.
Commanders,
The Daily Manifest is live in Field Ops: one lane puzzle a day, the same board for every Commander until midnight UTC. Manifest #1 was 28 October, and a new number comes each UTC day. Find it on the Today list in Field Ops, as the 📦 Daily Manifest tile.
How to play
Your goal is to bring all six convoys home: place every convoy on a square with no raiders left, then launch. Tap a lane's shield to send an escort, choose Scout and tap a square to send a scout, then choose Convoy and tap a square to place a convoy.
The board is five lanes by five shifts: lanes are the columns, shifts are the rows. Each square shows how many raiders of the Cybernetic Concord sit on it. A convoy is safe on a square with no raiders left, one convoy to a square.
You have two ways to thin the raiders out:
- Escort: tap a lane's shield to send an escort down it. It guards the whole lane and removes one raider from every square in it. You can send up to three escorts in total, so two escorts down the same lane remove two raiders from every square in it.
- Scout: choose Scout, then tap a square. It removes one raider from each of the four squares touching it (above, below, left and right). The square the scout stands on cannot hold a convoy. Up to two scouts in total.
To place a convoy, choose Convoy and tap a square that has no raiders left.
The score
Your score is the number of pieces on the board: six convoys plus every escort and scout. Fewer is better. Each day has a par, the fewest pieces any solution needs.
There are no dice, no clock and nothing hidden. The Sunday puzzle is the week's harder one.
What it pays
It pays a streak and a badge, and nothing else. A day counts as solved on your first launch that brings all six convoys home, at any score. Your streak is the number of days in a row you have solved: skip a day and it starts again. Your result card shows your streak, and your best streak when it is longer than the current one. The badge has three steps, and you get each one from the total number of days you have solved: Manifest 7, Manifest 30 and Manifest 100. Nothing you buy changes it.
Practice and launch
Practice costs nothing: place pieces as you like, and tap Undo to take back the last one. Nothing is sent until you hit LAUNCH. LAUNCH sends your layout to the Field Station, which checks it and gives back the day's result. Your best of the day is kept, so you can launch again with a better layout. After a launch, share your result with the Share result button, or as a picture with Share card.
See you in the lanes.