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Getting started

Hanpanmadang runs right in your browser with no install. Just go to hanpanmadang.comto start right away as a guest without signing up, and sign up with email anytime from [Profile] or [Settings]. Use 'Add to Home Screen' in your phone's browser to open it like an app (Android also has an app installer), and games you've opened once still load if your connection drops for a while.

Pick a game on the home screen and you'll see how to play first; games with difficulty levels let you choose right there. Detailed rules and tips for every game are in the Game guide.

Accounts and guests

To delete your account, use [Settings] in the app. For details, see Account deletion.

Records and rankings

• Score gamescompete on your best record. Depending on the game, rankings go by highest score, fastest time or highest round.
• Versus gamescompete on wins, draws and losses. You enter the weekly and all-time rankings after 10+ games at that difficulty. Rank reflects both win rate and games played, so a higher displayed win rate can still rank lower with fewer games (e.g., 90 wins in 48 games beats 10 wins in 10). A draw counts as half a win.
• Games with difficulty levels (or board sizes or player counts) keep separate records and rankings for each. Easy scores never mix with Hard ones.
• Solo games have separate phone and PC rankings. Tapping with a finger and playing with a keyboard and mouse differ in speed and control, so each game is filed under the phone (touch) or PC (keyboard · mouse) ranking based on the input actually used. Versus games are judged by the server with the same rules and time limits, so they share one ranking.
• Records only count for rankings from the latest version. Older app versions can update from the home-screen notice, and on the web just refresh. Online matches also connect only between latest versions.
• There's a weekly rankingand an all-time ranking. The weekly ranking resets every Monday at midnight (Korea time).
• Online matches and ranked AI matches are judged directly by the server. Weekly ranking rewards (game points) are given only for these server-judged rankings, settled every week and sent to your mailbox.

Daily puzzles in the logic games

Sudoku · Nonogram · Bridges · Circuit Connecthave a 'Daily puzzle' and a 'New puzzle (practice)' mode.

• Daily puzzlegives everyone the same puzzle for each date (Korea time) and difficulty (board size). Only your first full solve that day is ranked; solving it again counts as practice.
• If you leave mid-puzzle, the board and time are saved and you pick up where you left off. You can't restart from scratch to improve your time.
• New puzzleis practice with a different puzzle every time, so nothing is recorded.
• Every puzzle has exactly one solution and can be solved to the end with human techniques — no guessing.
• Hints don't just reveal the answer; they explain why a cell must be what it is. Each hint adds 30 seconds to your time.

Game points

Game points are a free in-app currencyearned from check-ins, gameplay, time in the app, weekly ranking rewards and more. Spend them on cosmetics like themes and game skins, decorate your own garden, or stake them on online matches.

• Points aren't sold and can't be bought with money. Hanpanmadang has no paid purchases.
• Points can't be exchanged for cash, gift cards or other goods.
• There's a daily limit on points. Earning points outside the intended ways is abuse and may be restricted.
• Invite friends: when a friend signs up with the link or 7-character code from [Profile › Invite friends] and plays 10 games on 2+ different days within 14 days, you get 200P and your friend gets 100P. It's capped at 5 friends per 30 days, and accounts identified as made on the same device (based on an identifier stored on the device) earn nothing. Invite reward points can't be staked on online matches. If you installed the app and the link didn't carry over, you can enter the code yourself within 7 days of signing up.

Online matches

• Real-time matches: Air Hockey · Ping Pong. You both see the same screen and move at the same time.
• Turn-based matches: Go · Chess · Janggi · Checkers · Backgammon · Gomoku · Reversi · Four in a Row · Tic-Tac-Toe · Hex. Players alternate moves with a time limit on every turn.
• Multiplayer rooms: in Yut Nori you can create a room for 2–4 players. If someone doesn't move in time or disconnects, the AI plays their seat; it's a friendly game with no records, rankings or points.
• If your connection drops briefly, you get time to rejoin. Leaving in the middle of a match counts as resigning.
• Invite links: after creating a room, use [Send invite link] to share it through a messenger or text. Whoever taps it joins the room instantly with no install (for private rooms the password is in the link too, so only send it to people you know).
• Result cards: after a game, use the share button on the result screen to send a card with your score and this week's rank. Tapping the card's QR code or link opens that game instantly.

Cosmetics and gardens

Use your points to change the app theme and in-game looks (skins), and decorate your own garden with ornaments and resident characters. Grow your garden by expanding the land, and tap someone's name in the rankings to visit their garden. Cosmetics never affect skill or results.

• 3D garden: tap the garden miniature in your profile to enter the 3D garden. You can walk, jump, go inside the house (chair · bed) and switch to first-person view. Drag the miniature sideways to rotate it.
• 3D character customization: in [Shop › Character], buy hairstyles, hair colors, tops, bottoms, shoes, hats and accessories with points. You can rotate a try-on preview before buying, and your look shows in the 3D garden, profile miniature and garden visits.
• Water park: your front yard comes with a house. Build a water park in [Shop › Garden › Facilities] to add an entrance to the yard; inside are a pool and a flowing water slide. Once built, it's yours to keep.
• Farm: plant lettuce, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, rice, strawberries and pumpkins in [Profile › Garden › Farm] or in the field at the back right of the 3D garden. Seeds are free, and slower crops sell for more. Harvested crops pile up in your storehouse, and selling them earns game points (up to 40P a day). You start with 2 plots and can expand to 4, 6 or 9 in [Shop › Garden › Expand farm]. Growth is timed on the server clock, so changing your device clock won't speed it up.
• Auto-farming (Android app 1.3.8+): watch one ad and for 4 hours, even with the app closed, ripe crops are harvested into your storehouse and the same crops are replanted (twice a day · up to 8 hours from now). An ad only counts when Google's ad server tells our server directly that it was watched to the end.
• Garden invites: create an invite link in [Profile › Garden › Invite] and send it through a messenger or text. Recipients can visit your garden without logging in, and only you can decorate it. It shows the garden as saved on the server, so you don't need to be online.
• Invite links expire automatically after 7 days, and you can cancel them all at any time. Keep in mind that recipients can forward the link to others.
• Visibility: choose Public (anyone can visit from the rankings), Link only (only people with an invite link) or Only me. The default is Public. Switching to Only me also blocks every invite link you've sent.
• Your garden is saved on this device first, then to the server when you're online. If it was changed on another device first, nothing is overwritten — you'll be asked which layout to keep.

Playing offline

• Solo games, logic puzzles and card gameswork without internet. Records are saved on this device, and signed-up accounts send them to the rankings once online. They're kept for up to 7 days and count toward the week in which the server receives them.
• vs AIworks as usual when the app plays the AI. Ranked AI matches played by the server need internet, so without a connection you can play a practice match instead (no rankings or points). Online matches need internet.
• Decorate gardencan be rearranged with items you own, even offline. Buying items, expanding the garden, check-ins and claiming points need a connection because the server has to confirm them.
• Android appincludes the game files, so it opens without internet from the start. The web versiondownloads what it needs the first time you open it online, and from then on opens without internet (if the browser clears its storage, it has to download again).
• When you're offline, the top of the home screen shows 'Playing offline' and how many records are waiting to be sent.

About ads

Hanpanmadang runs without paid purchases, and ads may be shown to cover running costs. Ads never appear while you're playing. On the web, ads appear only on pages with content like these guides; in the Android app, an ad may show when you leave the result screen once every few games.

Some score games let you continue once per game by watching an ad. Where ads aren't available you can continue without one, so everyone competes under the same conditions.

FAQ

My guest records disappeared.

Guest records are stored only in that device's browser. They won't show if you clear browser data or open the site on another device. Sign up with email on the same device and your guest records move to the new account; from then on, ranking records and points are stored on the server.

I can't see my record in the rankings.

Guest records don't appear in rankings. For versus games you need 10+ games at that difficulty that week (or overall for the all-time ranking), and each difficulty has its own ranking, so check the one you played.

Can I exchange points for money?

No. Game points are a free currency used only inside the app and can't be exchanged for cash or goods.

Can I play on a PC?

Yes. You can play every game in a PC browser with the same account. On wide screens the menu appears on the left and games open in a portrait frame in the middle.

How do I contact you?

support@hanpanmadang.comis our email address. When reporting a bug, please include the game name and what happened so we can look into it quickly.