Beat My Ladle: Challenge a Friend With a Game Link

Beat my Ladle is a challenge link built into the Mosey food games. When you finish a puzzle, the share link opens the day's game for your friend with your result shown as a row of tiles, and a line above it that asks "Can you beat it?" Your friend does not need an account to try, and the link never gives away the answer.

What is a Beat my Ladle challenge?

The Mosey games are three quick food puzzles, with a new set every day: Ladle, where you guess the dish in six tries, Origin, where you drop a pin on where five foods come from, and Ingredient, a seven-rung ladder of questions on one dish. The challenge link works for all three, even though it is named after the first.

When you finish a game, you can share your result. The share link is the day's game page with your tiles on it, so the friend who opens it sees how you did, without any of the answer, and then plays the same puzzle.

How do you share your game result?

You share the link from the result sheet, as text or with Copy link. The link carries a short code that describes your result in the same bands the share already shows, such as match, close and no match for Ladle. It never carries the answer, a dish name, an origin or anything about you. Nothing is stored on a server for it, because the page reads the code in the browser.

A friend opens the link, sees your grid with the line "Can you beat it?" above the game and plays. If the code is mangled or made up, the page shows nothing from it, and only the fixed band names can ever come out of a code.

How do you challenge a friend without an account?

No. The website lets anyone play without signing in. After they play, the result sheet offers a way to keep a streak in the app, which is where accounts, streaks and leagues live. The games are for people aged 18 and over, and they are free, with no prizes.

How do the three games differ?

Ladle is a guessing game: you type a dish and read the tiles. Origin is a map game: you drop a pin where each of five foods comes from, and it scores out of 5,000. Ingredient is a ladder: seven questions on one dish, a thousand points each, with an allergen question among them. A challenge link carries the shape of whichever you finished, so a friend knows which game they are about to play and how you did.

What does "Can you beat it?" mean?

It is the line above the game on a challenge page, and it means exactly that: your result is on the table, and your friend is invited to do better. Beating it can mean fewer guesses in Ladle, a higher score in Origin or more rungs in Ingredient. There is no prize and no ranking, only a friendly dare, and the answer stays hidden until your friend plays.

Keep it short and a little cocky. "Four guesses, your turn" or "Bet you cannot get the pin within a thousand kilometers" does the job. The link carries your result, so the message only needs the dare. If your friend plays and sends theirs back, you have a small ongoing game, and a weekly league among the people you follow back gives it a scoreboard if you want one.

Which puzzle does the link show?

Today's. A challenge link shows your result only for the day's puzzle, so a link opened tomorrow does not replay an old puzzle with an old grid. That keeps the challenge fair, since everyone is guessing the same dish at the same time of day.

Why is the answer never in the link?

Because a link is easy to pass around, and a friend who sees the answer first cannot play. The code is built from the bands that the share image already shows, so what travels is the shape of your game and not the solution. The share picture is separate: it keeps the plain link, so a code never sits on an image.

How do you play Ladle well?

Start with any dish. Each tile tells you how close you are: a pale tile is a match, a copper tile is close and a dark tile is no match, with a symbol on each so color is never the only clue. A clue arrives after certain wrong guesses, and hard mode turns clues off. The guide to the Ladle tiles explains each column, and the daily food games page covers the three puzzles.

Pick a result you are proud of, or a close call you want to compare. A short message with the link, such as "Six tries, got it on four," starts the conversation better than the link alone. Friends who play tend to send theirs back, and a streak or a weekly league among people you follow back gives the game a longer life.

Does Beat my Ladle help local places?

Not directly, but food games get people talking about food, and food talk leads to places. Mosey is free for a place to list, has no hidden fees and keeps its tools affordable, and a game that sends a friend to the app can lead them to rate their own favorite place. That is supporting local at one remove, and playing costs nothing.

Related reading: bringing a friend to the app, the guides to daily food games and to streaks, weekly leagues and badges, and the US food guides for more ideas.

Finish today's game in the Mosey app, copy the challenge link and send it to the friend who thinks they know every dish.