Original illustration: a night city street with a police light bar and a microphone

Payday Grid

A daily cash-count logic puzzle: every run adds up, no digit twice.

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Payday Grid

Today's ledger is on its way.

Today's ledger

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Pick a cell to see every set of digits that can make its across and its down sum.

Tap a cell, then a key. Keys: arrows move, 1 to 9 enter, 0 or Backspace clear, P pencil, U undo.

Tap a ledger cell, then a digit on the keypad.

Count the take to file your time.

Next payday at midnight UTC.

How everyone did today appears here once 20 players have finished.

0Solved

0No hint

0Streak

0Best streak

–Best 7×7

–Best 9×9

Today's card shows the ledger with its sums only, your time band, streak and the days to launch; a card for an earlier day shows that day's ledger counted. Never today's digits.

Fill the ledger with digits 1 to 9 so each run across and down makes its sum. 7×7 on weekdays, 9×9 at the weekend, a 5×5 warm-up, pencil marks, a combination helper, live rule checks, one hint, a streak, personal bests and a spoiler-free result to share. A fan puzzle on an imagined ledger, never official.

How to play

The ledger is a grid of pale ledger cells between dark clue cells. Every run of ledger cells (a stretch across or down) has its sum in the clue cell before it: the across sum top right, the down sum bottom left. Fill every ledger cell with one digit from 1 to 9 so that every run adds up to its sum, with no digit used twice inside the same run. Tap a cell, then a key; the pencil key keeps candidate digits in the corner of a cell. A repeated digit and a full run with the wrong sum turn red, and the checks only ever look at the rules, never at the answer. Undo and Clear are there when a corner goes wrong. Every ledger is checked when the site is built by a solver that applies the same deductions you do (the unique combinations, the combination filter that sets each digit's bounds, the across-and-down intersection, naked and hidden singles), then tries a digit only when nothing follows, so each has exactly one filling; the 5×5 warm-ups fall to the rules alone, with no guessing at all.

Tip one: a 3 in two cells must be 1+2, and a 4 in two cells must be 1+3. A sum that only one set of digits can make fixes the run to those digits, and the cell where the run crosses another run takes the one digit both runs allow. Tip two: a 17 in two cells must be 8+9, a 16 in two cells 7+9, and a 24 in three cells 7+8+9. The highest and the lowest sums for a length have one combination each; the combination helper beside the ledger lists every set for the selected cell's two runs, so you can read off which digits are even possible. Then let the runs do the work: once every cell but one in a run is filled, the last cell takes whatever the sum still needs.

Everyone gets the same ledger on the same UTC day: 7×7 on weekdays, 9×9 at the weekend, and newcomers can switch on the 5×5 warm-up, which still counts. One hint a day fills one cell the rules force, says which rule, and marks the result as assisted. When the last digit lands the take is counted: the bills fan into the duffel, the frame glows and the ledger keeper signs off with your time. The archive lets you play any earlier day's ledger and practice ledgers come from a spare pool; both are marked and never count. Payday Grid is a fan logic puzzle on an imagined heist ledger: nothing here is a mission, a figure or an asset from GTA 6, nothing comes from a leak, and nothing is presented as official. For more deduction try the Stakeout, the Evidence Locker and the Alibi.

Questions

What are the rules?

The ledger is a grid of pale ledger cells and dark clue cells. Every stretch of ledger cells across or down (a run) has a sum written in the clue cell before it: the across sum top right, the down sum bottom left. Fill every ledger cell with one digit from 1 to 9 so that every run adds up to its sum, with no digit used twice inside the same run. Digits may repeat elsewhere on the ledger. Every ledger here has exactly one filling.

How do I enter a digit?

Tap a ledger cell, then a key on the keypad (1 to 9; the ⌫ key clears). The ✎ key switches the keypad to pencil marks, small candidate digits in the corner of a cell, until you switch it back. On a keyboard the arrows move between cells, 1 to 9 enter a digit, 0 or Backspace clears, P toggles pencil mode, U undoes. Undo takes back the last change and Clear empties the whole ledger. No soft keyboard ever opens: the keypad is the input.

What do the highlights mean?

A red digit is repeated inside its run; a red run is full and adds up to the wrong sum (its clue turns red too). The checks only ever look at the rules, never at the answer. The combination helper beside the ledger lists every set of digits that can make the selected cell's across and down sums in that many cells: pure arithmetic, not the answer. One hint a day fills one cell the named rules force, says which rule, and marks the result as assisted.

What is the warm-up?

A 5×5 ledger for newcomers, switched on with the Warm-up toggle (remembered on this device). Every warm-up falls to the named rules alone, with no guessing. It counts as the day's solve; the 7×7 weekday and 9×9 weekend ledgers are what the best times are about.

Is this from the game?

No. Payday Grid is a fan logic puzzle on an imagined heist ledger. Nothing here is a mission, a figure or an asset from the game, nothing comes from a leak, and nothing is presented as official. For how heists and crews actually work on roleplay servers, see the roles and the how-servers-work pages on this site.

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