A moonlit hedgerow in cross-section: a badger, a hedgehog, a moth and mice asleep in lantern-lit burrows under the soil.

Three new boards every night

Dig a home for every creature before dawn.

Every sleeping creature needs a burrow of exactly the right size. Moonburrow is a calm logic puzzle for iPhone, with three new boards each night that are the same for everyone, wherever they are.

Play a board now Coming soon to the App Store

Try it here

Your first burrow takes about ten seconds.

This is a real board from the game: level 6 of the Hedgerow, where the first hedgehog turns up. Nine creatures, one way to house them all.

  1. Drag corner to corner to dig a burrow around a creature. Its number is how many squares it needs.
  2. Every square gets dug, burrows never overlap, and each one holds exactly one creature.
  3. The hedgehog sleeps curled up, so its burrow has to be square. Tap a burrow to fill it back in.

Hedgerow · Level 6

Start in a corner: creatures there have the fewest ways to fit.

Tonight's Dig

Three new boards, every night.

They open at midnight wherever you are, and everyone in the world gets the same three. A quiet few minutes before bed, or a race against your group.

  1. Dusk6 × 6 · about a minute
  2. Midnight7 × 7 · about two minutes
  3. Witching Hour8 × 8 · about four minutes

Keep your streak

Finish a board each night to keep it going. Every seven nights earns a spare lantern, which saves your streak if life gets in the way.

Share without spoilers

Send friends your times and the lanterns you kept, without giving away a single burrow.

The Tonight's Dig screen: the moon, a 23-night streak, and the Dusk, Midnight and Witching Hour boards.
A naturalist's plate of hedgerow creatures: a hedgehog, a badger, a wood mouse and a moth among hawthorn and berries.
Plate I. The Hedgerow, from the Field Journal you fill in as you play.

The Field Journal

Every creature sleeps its own way.

New creatures bring new rules, so a board you could read at a glance on night one becomes a proper puzzle by the time the moths arrive.

  • Wood mouse First night

    Apodemus sylvaticus

    Any rectangle will do.

  • Hedgehog Level 6

    Erinaceus europaeus

    Curls up tight to sleep, so it only takes a square burrow.

  • Badger Level 16

    Meles meles

    Lives in a roomy sett: at least two squares by two.

  • Moth Level 31

    Lepidoptera

    Drawn to light: its burrow must include a lantern.

Further afield, in seasons to come

  • Grey heronStands in narrow channels: one square wide.
  • Water voleBurrows into the bank: must touch the edge.
  • Mountain hareSits upright in its form: taller than wide.
  • Barn owlHunts its own range: owl burrows never touch.
  • KiwiNests deep in the bush: keeps off the edge.

When you're stuck

Three boosters, for the nights a board won't give.

Glow-worm

Lights up a creature whose burrow you can work out next. A nudge, not an answer.

Lantern

Digs one correct burrow for you, and the rest of the board usually falls into place.

Full Moon

Tap anywhere and moonlight floods the soil, digging every burrow in a three-by-three patch.

You start with a few, win more at streak milestones and on the leaderboard, and can watch a short ad for a Glow-worm or Lantern. Using one on Tonight's Dig keeps your streak, but that night's time isn't ranked.

The leaderboard: a group of 28 diggers with times, and prizes for first, second and third.

The nightly leaderboard

Thirty diggers. One night. Three prizes.

Finish all three boards and you're placed in a group of up to thirty players who dig at about your speed. Your time is the three boards added up, plus twenty seconds a mistake.

  • 1stA Full Moon and a Lantern
  • 2ndTwo Lanterns
  • 3rdA Lantern and two Glow-worms

Free, and fair about it

Moonburrow is free because of ads. We keep them out of your way.

  • Never during Tonight's Dig.
  • Never the moment you open the game.
  • Never while you're meeting a new creature.

Ads that earn you something, like a booster, are always your choice. How we handle your data is set out plainly in our privacy policy.

A wetland at night in cross-section: reeds and a still pond above, lit burrows in the bank below, and a heron at the water's edge.

Beyond the Hedgerow

Moorland, wetland, and further south.

Moonburrow starts in an English hedgerow. New biomes bring new creatures and new rules, all the way to the kiwi.

The lanterns are nearly lit.

Moonburrow is coming soon to iPhone. Until then, the practice board above is yours to dig as often as you like.

Coming soon to the App Store Play the practice board