POINTS
How points work
Last updated: 9 October 2026
Points are shared by every game on the site. You earn them by playing and spend them on hints. They live in this browser, so there's no account and nothing to buy.
Your points show here when JavaScript is on.
Earning
| What | Points |
|---|---|
| Finish today's Skywave round with at least one contact | 100 |
| Decode today's Lorenz | 100 |
| Read today's Lorenz in hard mode | 250 |
| Read today's Lorenz in realistic mode | 400 |
| Send the hard or realistic mode reply back | 100 |
| Finish a practice round in either game | 20, up to 3 a day in each game |
| Your first visit | 150 to start with |
Each daily round pays once. If you'd already finished today's round before points arrived, you get them the next time you open that game.
Spending
| Hint | Points |
|---|---|
| Skywave: MUF or D loss, for one station | 10 |
| Skywave: band scope, for one station | 20 |
| Lorenz: check a wheel | 20 |
| Lorenz: read the smudge | 50 |
| Lorenz hard mode: reveal the QEP | 40 |
| Lorenz hard mode: reveal a character | 10 |
Each hint button shows its price. If you don't have enough, the button says so and stays off until you've earned more. Hints don't take anything off your game score any more, so the score is just how you played. Wrong answers still cost score, as before.
Keeping it fair
Your points are a short list of what you earned and spent, with a check on each line. If the list gets edited, I keep the lines that still check out and drop the rest. If nothing checks out, you start again with 150. Only the last 200 lines are kept, and older ones are added up into a starting total.
Clearing them
Points are stored under dexm:points in your browser's localStorage. Clearing the site data for dexmlabs.app resets them. See cookies and storage.