Daily Food Games in Canada: Ladle, Origin, Ingredient

The daily food games in the Mosey app are three short puzzles that Canadians can play in a few minutes: Ladle, where you guess a dish in six tries, Origin, where you pin five foods on a world map, and Ingredient, where you answer seven questions about one dish. A fresh set arrives at midnight every day.

What are the daily food games in the app?

There are three, and each is a puzzle about food that real people eat. A new puzzle arrives for each game every day, and the day turns over at your own local midnight, whichever time zone you are in, from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific.

You can play without rating a place or following anyone. The games are for people aged eighteen and over, there are no prizes, and nothing in them asks you to spend money. Think of them as a few minutes of puzzle that also teach you where dishes come from and what goes into them.

How to play Ladle: six tries to name the dish

In Ladle you try to name today's dish in six tries. Begin with any dish the game knows, which means a spelling slip never uses up a try. Every guess returns seven tiles that compare it with the answer: cuisine, origin, main ingredient, course, vegetarian, allergens and spice.

A pale tile is a match, a copper tile is close and a dark tile is no match. Close can mean the same part of the world, a spice level one step off, or at least one allergen in common. An arrow points towards the answer, and each tile also has a symbol, so colour is never the only clue.

After three wrong guesses the game names the region, and after four it adds a one-line clue. Browse dishes lists them all by cuisine. Hard mode asks you to keep every clue you have matched and turns the clues off, and you can only switch it before your first guess.

How does the Origin food map game work?

Origin deals you five foods each day. You drop a pin on a world map where each one comes from, or you type a country or region instead, which is handy with a screen reader or a keyboard. A closer pin earns more points, up to one thousand for a food, and a pin inside the right region earns the full thousand. A perfect day is five thousand.

Distances show in kilometres by default in Canada, and a setting switches them to miles. Where people disagree about the origin of a food, Origin says so and lays out every claim with its source, rather than choosing one for you. It is a gentle way to learn that food has a long and often argued history.

What is the Ingredient ladder game?

Ingredient takes one dish and asks seven questions, from easy to hard, with four options each. You answer every question. A right answer is worth one thousand points and a wrong answer is worth nothing, and after a wrong one the game shows the right option before you move on. The most you can score is seven thousand.

The seventh question is always the same kind: which allergen does this dish contain? The games make it a habit to think about what is in a dish. A real menu is different, because its allergen and dietary details come from the place, so ask the staff before you eat. That habit is worth keeping whatever the puzzle said, because a game can only teach you about a dish in general, never about the kitchen in front of you.

How do the food game streak and weekly league work?

A streak counts consecutive days on which you finish at least one game, win or lose, and you sign in to keep it. Each week you earn a streak freeze that covers one missed day. Once you have played three days running, the app asks if you want a reminder, sent once a day and only when you have not played yet.

The weekly league runs from Monday to Sunday among people you follow who also follow you back, and nobody else. No public leaderboard exists. A Stats screen adds up the games you have played and your win rate, so you can watch a habit take shape across a month of mornings, commutes or coffee breaks.

How do the games fit with rating and lists?

The puzzles teach you dishes; the rest of the app is where you act on them. Rate what you eat by the dish, add tags, and keep a list of places to try, built alone or with friends. The daily food games page gives the short version of all three.

The app also runs debates, including which city makes the best poutine, and rating with friends, covered in rating food with friends across British Columbia. The wider Canadian food guides are there for the days you want somewhere to eat.

Get the Mosey app, play today's three puzzles and rate what you eat by the dish, so your puzzle habit and your own list of places grow together.