About Panelist
One house a day.
Nothing is labeled.
Panelist is a daily puzzle about the breaker panel in your basement. One job, a panel of unlabeled breakers, and as many trips up the stairs as it takes to find the one you need.
Why we made it
Everyone who has owned or rented a home knows this one. You need to swap a light fixture, the panel labels are smudged pencil or just say "misc," and you end up yelling "Did the kitchen go off?" up the basement stairs. We wanted a game built around that moment.
So every day there's a new house, an unlabeled panel, and one job: a light to swap, an outlet to replace, a fan to hang. Switch off one breaker, a few, or all of them, walk upstairs, and see what went dark. The job's done when your room is dark with just one breaker off, the way you'd leave it while you work. And the house is rarely empty: someone's on a work call, the baby's napping, the game's in overtime. Cut their room and you'll hear about it, and it costs you a trip. So does leaving the fridge or freezer off two trips in a row. Some days a breaker has already tripped before you get there. Fewest trips wins.
The panel helps if you can read it. Lights and bedrooms run on 15-amp breakers; kitchens, baths, and laundry get 20; the double breakers feed big appliances. The panel also has old pencil labels, which never name the room you're working on but can tell you where the fridge or the sleeping teenager is. The week gets harder as it goes: on Monday and Tuesday every rating is readable and most labels are right; midweek two ratings are gone and half the labels are wrong; by the weekend four ratings are gone and you shouldn't trust the labels at all.
What we care about
Every day is fair
Each panel is built from the date and checked before it goes live, so it can always be found by reading the panel and halving what's left. No luck required, though luck is allowed.
The house keeps the answer
Your browser never sees the wiring. Every trip is judged on our server, so nobody can peek and everybody plays the same puzzle.
Spoiler-free sharing
Your share card shows how many breakers you flipped each trip, never which ones. Friends can see how you played it. They still have to find it themselves.
Better with friends
Private leagues are on the way. Your group chat, office, or trivia team will get its own leaderboard.
Playing for keeps
You can play without an account. Sign up and every day counts: you get a spot on the daily leaderboard, a streak to protect, and career stats that show your average and your best day.
Today's house is live
Can you find the breaker?
It takes about two minutes. A new house goes live every night at midnight Eastern.