Star Battle Puzzle | Hoshi

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.7
773 reviews
50K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this game

Hoshi (星, Japanese for star) is a free and competitive Star Battle game with daily challenges. Star Battle, also known as Two Not Touch, is regularly published in the New York Times logic puzzle section. If you enjoy playing tricky puzzles and brain-teasing games and seek a new challenge, then you should give Hoshi a try.

If you have never played the Star Battle logic game before, don’t worry the rules are straight forward:
Similar to other logic puzzles you have a grid that you need to fill. In a normal 2 star Two Not Touch game each row, column, and region must have exactly 2 stars. Stars are not allowed to touch, even not diagonally.

Hoshi includes Star Battles with 1-5 stars, but games with more stars are yet to come šŸ˜‰


Hoshi offers you:
- Everyday we release a new number game (daily puzzle challenge)
- Track your solving time and compete against other players (leaderboards)
- There is also a weekly challenge for geniuses (3 star plus games)
- There are 5 different difficulties (easy to diabolical)
- Packs with hand-selected logic puzzle (e.g. for beginners)
- Guide with solving strategies
- Profile with stats about your skill level & progress

Coming soon:
- Add your friends and play with them a numbers puzzle
- Star Battle games with more than 5 stars
Updated on
May 13, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location and App info and performance
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info, and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.7
742 reviews
Kairi Larson
February 2, 2025
The game is fun and honestly a good challenge. I only gave 3 stars because a lot of it is paid content and pro membership stuff so mostly only the daily and weekly puzzle are free. Edit: I realize that it is not easy to make and run an app, and I understand that you need to get back what you put in. I am not against supporting developers, just unable to. I only wish you could buy packs as a difficulty level set instead of each one individually
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Guriddo
February 2, 2025
Hey Kairi, thanks for your feedback. You currently get 365 Dailies + 55 Weeklies + 50 Pack games for free per year. Isn't that quite a lot 😜? I would love to offer everything for free, but as you can imagine, running & developing Hoshi costs me money (and a lot of my free time) 🄲
Annie Phillips
July 30, 2025
Love it!! This feels like a rare puzzle game designed to appeal to the user rather than being an advertiser platform in disguise. They have a good chunk of free content to give u a feel for wether or not you want to subscribe to the full game. If u like it, u should definitely check out Tango too--same UI with a different grid-based puzzle game.
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Jod 1
July 5, 2025
I like the puzzles themselves but the app keeps bugging out saying I missed a day and need to recover my score before the day is out, sometimes even before 9pm. Last time I commented on a bug in my review I got a snippy reply but I contacted customer support with no acknowledgement, no reply, no fix, so not sure if it's known or not. Been happening on and off for months, and it's been back for a week.
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Guriddo
July 10, 2025
Hi Jod 1. Oof, a snippy reply and a missed email is not a good combo. My bad. That time-traveling streak bug is a nasty one I definitely want to fix. If you're willing to give my inbox another chance, please send the details to hello.guriddo+tango@gmail.com. UPDATE: I replied to your mail on May 8th but never heard back from you 😓

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