Griddle Badge Guide: How to Earn Every Achievement
Griddle tracks your accomplishments through a badge system that spans five categories. Whether you're a casual player curious about what you can unlock or a completionist chasing every last achievement, this guide covers every badge in the game: what it requires, how hard it is, and practical tips for earning it.
How Badges Work
Before diving into the individual badges, here are the ground rules:
- Daily games only. Badges are evaluated only when you complete the daily game. Bonus rounds don't count — no matter how great your score, a bonus game won't trigger any badge.
- Permanent once earned. Once you unlock a badge, it stays in your profile forever. It records the date you first earned it.
- Repeat tracking. Some top-tier badges track how many times you've hit their criteria. A small counter dot appears on these badges after you've earned them repeatedly.
- Local storage. Badge progress is stored in your browser's localStorage, just like your stats and streaks. Clearing your browser data will reset your badges.
You can view all your badges — earned and unearned — from the Stats screen, accessible via the Stats button on the start screen or the View Stats button on the end screen.
Streak Badges
Streak badges reward consistency — playing the daily game on consecutive days. Your streak increments each day you complete the daily puzzle and resets to zero when you miss a day.
| Badge | Requirement | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
| 3-Day Streak | Complete the daily game 3 days in a row | Easy |
| 7-Day Streak | Complete the daily game 7 days in a row | Medium |
High Score Badges
These badges trigger when your daily game score reaches specific thresholds. Higher tiers require strong vocabulary, efficient use of bonus squares, and fast play.
| Badge | Requirement | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
| Score 50 | Score at least 50 points in a daily game | Easy |
| Score 100 | Score at least 100 points | Medium |
| Score 200 | Score at least 200 points | Hard |
| Score 500 | Score at least 500 points | Very Hard |
The Score 50 badge is achievable in your first few games. Score 100 comes with practice and attention to multipliers. Score 200 requires a combination of long words, bonus square exploitation, and efficient time management. Score 500 is an elite achievement that demands an exceptional board plus flawless execution — most players won't reach it, and that's okay.
Long Word Badges
These badges celebrate finding words of exceptional length. On a 6×6 grid with adjacency constraints, long words are genuinely challenging to spot and trace.
| Badge | Requirement | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
| 5-Letter Word | Find a word of 5+ letters in a daily game | Easy |
| 6-Letter Word | Find a word of 6+ letters | Medium |
| 7-Letter Word | Find a word of 7+ letters | Hard |
| 8-Letter Word | Find a word of 8+ letters | Very Hard |
Five-letter words appear on most boards and are reliably findable with prefix/suffix scanning. Six-letter words are less common but show up regularly with practice. Seven-letter words are rare — not every board supports one, and finding it requires both spotting the word and tracing a valid adjacent path. Eight-letter words are exceptional achievements.
Word Count Badges
Word count badges reward volume — finding many words in a single daily game. These badges test your speed and breadth of vocabulary more than the depth tested by long-word badges.
| Badge | Requirement | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Words | Find at least 10 words in a daily game | Easy |
| 20 Words | Find at least 20 words | Medium |
| 30 Words | Find at least 30 words | Hard |
| 50 Words | Find at least 50 words | Very Hard |
Finding 10 words in three minutes is comfortable for anyone who knows the basics. Twenty words requires a brisk pace of roughly one word every nine seconds. Thirty words means submitting at a rate of one every six seconds — you'll need to spot words quickly and avoid any hesitation. Fifty words in three minutes (one every 3.6 seconds) is a sustained sprint that demands exceptional pattern recognition.
Contributor Badge
The Contributor category has a single badge:
| Badge | Requirement | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
| Contributor | Enable the Drag Select beta feature | Easy (but hidden) |
This badge rewards players who explore Griddle's beta features. To earn it, you need to unlock the Beta Features menu (hint: look for the build version text at the bottom of the start screen) and toggle on the Drag Select feature. Then complete a daily game. The badge is evaluated based on your feature flag preferences at the time of game completion.
Repeat Counts
For certain top-tier badges (Score 500, 7-Letter Word, 8-Letter Word, 30 Words, 50 Words), Griddle tracks how many times you've achieved the criteria across multiple daily games. Once you've earned the badge, a small counter dot appears showing your repeat tier:
- 5+ — Achieved the criteria in at least 5 daily games
- 10+ — At least 10 games
- 25+ — At least 25 games
- 50+ — At least 50 games
Repeat counts give endgame players something to chase after unlocking every badge. Even if you've earned all the achievements, pushing your repeat counts higher is a mark of sustained excellence.
Viewing Your Badges
Open the Stats screen to see all your badges organized by category. Earned badges show a green border and checkmark with the date they were first earned. Unearned badges appear grayed out with their description visible, so you always know what to aim for next.
A summary at the top shows how many badges you've earned out of the total available. Can you catch them all?
Play today's Griddle and work toward your next badge.