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Race a timer to unscramble letter sets into words that use every tile, aiming to get through all 23 in one sitting.
Every free daily web game in the index. Search by name, site or category, or narrow the list to one shelf.
Race a timer to unscramble letter sets into words that use every tile, aiming to get through all 23 in one sitting.
Seven short clues, twenty tiles of letter chunks: join the chunks to spell each answer, with letter counts as a guide and five puzzles every day.
Work out the featured actor from a list of their films with titles blanked out, using release years, genres and IMDb ratings; naming co-stars uncovers shared titles.
The TV spin-off of Actorle: pin down an actor from their series credits, shown with years, genres and episode counts but no titles until you guess cast mates.
Identify a major airport seen from above in satellite imagery, picking up hints such as country and city after each miss; answers come from the 50 busiest airports.
Watch objects drop into a container and estimate how many landed inside over five rounds; over-under, pour and survival modes give extra practice.
Seven jumbled letters and ninety seconds: make every word you can and hunt for the full seven-letter one.
Estimate the size of the angle on screen in degrees, refining your answer from the feedback on each of four attempts.
Anime quizzes in several formats: name a show from screenshots, openings or endings, identify characters by portrait, or play Anidle, which narrows the answer using clues from earlier guesses.
Ten museum objects appear one by one; drop a pin where you think each was made and pick its era, scored on both distance and date.
Stall as long as possible before hitting the secret word: absent letters become unusable, present ones must be reused, and exact matches lock in place.
Name a famous building or architectural project from a photo, getting a fresh image after each miss and a hint after three, with six tries total.
Hunt for the mystery Balatro joker by comparing each guess on cost, ability type, randomness and scaling; matching traits gradually unlock a hint to its name.
Identify a song as its parts are added instrument by instrument, from a single track to the full mix, with fewer layers earning a better score.
A hub of NBA puzzles, including a top-ten list, bingo, a player grid, a Wordle-style name guess and classic player guessing.
Name an MLB hitter from a shadowy clip of his stance at the plate, with misses compared on team, division, age and position; an NBA Legends variant also exists.
Track down a secret five-letter word alphabetically: each guess shrinks the range above and below it, and you have twelve tries to land on it.
A photo of one bird is the starting point; get its species in six guesses, with each attempt checked against order, family and genus to narrow the field.
Make exactly twelve words from seven petal letters, each using the center one, where length, pangrams and bonus-letter use all add to your score.
Pick only three words to submit from a Boggle-style letter grid; tiles carry point values, six-plus letters earn a bonus, and invalid tries cost one of three lives.
From Seth Godin: place 25 tiles and a wild to form five row words, chasing points as letters, tile values and multiplier squares change daily, plus a bonus line.
Hold a button to trace a country's border bit by bit and name it as early as you dare; seven countries make up each set.
Shown a past weekend's US box office chart with titles hidden, guess the top films from studio and gross figures, paying points to reveal plot, cast or tagline hints.
Look at a LEGO set and estimate how many pieces it contains, refining your number guess after guess with no limit on attempts.
Supply the missing digits of an equation with a fixed layout of operators so it equals the number shown, in five attempts with color feedback.
Choose the right capital city from four options, build a streak and race a ninety-second clock.
Identify the make, model and year of a pictured car within five tries; fewer attempts earn a better score.
Track down an animated character in up to fifteen tries, comparing network, show, year, airing status, gender and lead-or-side role, with optional hints.
Each day brings ten mystery Wikipedia articles, revealed only by the category tags from the foot of their pages; type the title you think they describe.
Carve a tall block of letters into connected regions, each spelling a word of four to eight letters read in order; exactly one complete division works.
Tap the spot you believe is the combined balance point of a cluster of shapes; three rounds add more shapes, and each allows one guess scored out of ten.
Link two five-letter words through a chain where each step rearranges the previous word and swaps out exactly one letter, with Normal and Hard puzzles.
Tackle one curated organic chemistry problem in six attempts, covering anything from classic named reactions to full synthesis routes; hints and the archive need Premium.
Find the winning line in a single tactical position picked by Chess.com, where the puzzles are set to grow tougher as the week goes on.
Starting from a position in a real game, predict the five moves that followed; colored tiles show exact hits, moves in the wrong slot and right piece types.
Work out an entire chess opening, white and black moves alike, in six attempts with Wordle-style colors on each move; expert mode stretches it to five moves per side.
Drag a handful of illustrated historical events from earliest to latest; you get six submissions, and each check highlights the events already sitting in the right slot.
Sort six events from across world history into the order they happened, with three attempts to get the full sequence right; NFL, NBA and U.S. editions also exist.
Put five moments from basketball history in chronological order, from record nights to championship runs, with three attempts to get the sequence right.
Sort five pro football milestones, from famous games to record performances, into the order they happened, using no more than three checks.
Sort six milestones from U.S. history, spanning the colonial era to recent decades, into chronological order within three attempts.
Study five photographs and slide a timeline to the year you think each was shot, anywhere from 1900 to the present, scoring more for closer guesses.
Place ten films on a timeline in release order using only the director, cast and genre, with the year withheld; hints offer a scene still or the title.
Vulture's movie grid: name a film for each square that satisfies both its row and column clues, with tappable hints showing headshots and details.
Several film puzzles each day, including tile swaps that spell out movie titles, guessing a film from its reviews, and Battle mode for chaining movies against friends.
Each blank box needs a word that pairs with all of its linked neighbors to make compound words or phrases; earlier answers can then feed a Double Circuit.
Seat each person on a grid by following their clues to locate the day's relic, with a Mosaic shape puzzle and a Rosetta-style language decoding challenge alongside.
Twenty characters fill a grid, and each revealed clue helps you mark people as innocent or criminal; puzzles grow harder from Monday to Sunday.
Each puzzle gives a single clue word plus a count; tap the matching cards among sixteen, and a wrong tap ends that puzzle. Several player-made puzzles arrive each day.
Five colors are shown briefly; rebuild each from memory and see how close you came, with a daily set under the calendar icon.
Type color names from a fixed list to find the mystery shade, with each guess scored by percentage of closeness to the target.
Work out which three colors, and in what proportions, were mixed to produce a target swatch, with six tries and an accuracy percentage after each.
Write the first answer that comes to mind for ten prompts, and score for every one that matches the crowd.
Split sixteen words into four sets of four linked by a shared theme, from the Daydash team behind Contexto, with a calendar of past games.
Sort sixteen words into four secret categories of four, with groups ranging from straightforward yellow to devious purple and only four mistakes allowed.
The Athletic's sports spin on Connections: sort sixteen sports terms into four hidden groups of four, with a limited number of mistakes and an optional timer.
Type any word and see where it ranks among all words by closeness of meaning to the secret one; reach number one to win, with no cap on guesses.
Put a dollar figure on one Costco warehouse product in six tries, with higher or lower arrows guiding each new attempt.
Pin down a mystery country as each guess is compared with it on continent, hemisphere, population, average temperature and compass direction.
Starting from a heavily zoomed-in picture, work out its subject, zooming out step by step or revealing a first letter when stuck, within six tries.
A themed crossword whose clues are song clips: play the audio, recognize the artist or title, and fill the grid.
Puzzmo's themed crossword, with the constructor and editor credited on every grid, a running solve timer and a pause button for breaks.
Free in the browser, the L.A. Times crossword has clues that ramp up in difficulty from Monday through the end of the week.
Ten thousand people answered one prompt; track down the four replies they gave most often, with unlimited guesses and three hints that each reveal a letter.
The Guardian's weekday cryptic, with wordplay-and-definition clues from its rotating team of setters and a comment thread for every puzzle.
Six rotating letter dials must line up on a hidden six-letter word, and you get just five keys to test your setting, with colors marking right letters.
Draw a single straight slice through the shape on screen, trying to split its area into two exactly equal pieces.
Seven encrypted words stack into a pyramid; guess letters to decode each row, starting at the top, drawing on one shared pool of guesses for the whole puzzle.
Solve a list of crossword-style clues and transfer each numbered letter into the grid above, gradually spelling out a trivia fact.
Light Up, also called Akari: place bulbs so every white cell is lit, no two bulbs see each other, and numbered walls get the right count.
Complete five analogies, each missing two words, by placing candidate words and submitting the full set at once; easy, medium and hard levels are offered.
From the Barstool Sports trivia show The Dozen, nine questions hide behind category squares like sports leagues and TV, and one miss can be retried with a Double Dip.
Read one surprising claim and decide whether it is true or made up, learning the answer instantly and building a streak; more statements are there to browse.
Ten reasoning puzzles with no timer, though quicker answers earn a higher score.
A fresh brainteaser, riddle or word puzzle from Kevin Stone's ad-free BrainBashers, with a hint, a worked answer and a printable version.
Ten questions with twenty seconds apiece, the same set for every player, then your rank in the day's field.
Every day brings thirty puzzles, one per MLB team: drag that club's players into the trivia columns they fit before you run out of outs.
Time each photo in the developer tray without a clock, and lift it out the moment you judge it ready.
Read one event that took place on today's date and enter its four-digit year in six tries; digit colors flag exact and off-by-one matches, plus a before-or-after hint.
Fit a set of polyomino pieces onto a calendar board so the only uncovered squares spell out today's date; five board variants range from quick to tough.
Use the clues in the soil to locate a buried object within six digs, then move on to the next site until the day ends.
Songs from Disney films and shows, played from the intro in short bursts that grow with each skip or miss until you pick the title.
Rank a list of items by a stated measure, such as popularity, size or date, by arranging them in order; hundreds of past puzzles sit in the archive.
Name the breed of a player-submitted dog from its photo in five attempts, with separate single-breed and mixed-breed puzzles.
Cover the grid with domino pieces so that the pip totals along every line, across and down, hit their targets; the game is also on Steam.
Two Wordle boards share one keyboard, so every guess counts toward both hidden words; you have seven tries to finish the pair.
Four modes cover Dota 2 heroes, from attribute clues in Classic to voice quotes, ability icons and cropped loading screens.
Five scenes with five differences each: tap what changed before the clock runs down.
Thirty-two hidden five-letter words share 37 guesses; side modes include Sequence, Jumble with random openers, and Crosswordle, plus global and private leaderboards.
Figure out which movie a string of emoji describes, with three guesses and an optional hint, or build an emoji puzzle of your own to share.
Use a limited set of walls on a grassy grid to fence the horse into as large an area as you can; fruit, bees and portals shift the score.
Combine six number cards with plus, minus, times and divide to land on the target. Three sums a day.
Fill in the top five answers to a ranking question in the correct order within five attempts; colors flag answers in place, misplaced or outside the list.
Tackle three hard-to-know numerical questions with one estimate apiece, leaning on rough arithmetic and an on-screen calculator; scores depend on how many times off you land.
Wordle with a liar built in: every row of feedback contains exactly one false color, so you have to work out which tile is lying.
Shade each cell one of two colors so every connected field matches the size its number calls for, in this Inkwell Games logic puzzle.
Tap a tile on the lowest row to remove it and its matching-color neighbors, letting the stack drop, and clear the board in the set number of moves.
Work out the hidden country's flag in six attempts, guided by a score that rates how closely each flag you try resembles the answer.
Complete a three-by-three board using flags that satisfy both a row trait and a column trait, like colors or history, and seek the one flag fitting every category.
Identify a country from fragments of its flag, with a master mode for extra difficulty; an optional paid full version unlocks more.
Each guess uncovers another tile of a hidden flag; identify the country within six tries, then continue into bonus rounds on its shape, capital and neighbors.
Spin oddly shaped pieces around their pivot points until all of them fit inside the border with no overlaps.
Crease a sheet of paper over itself, step by step, until its outline matches the shape shown, using as few folds as possible.
Three food games share one streak: point to where a dish comes from, choose the dish that fits a given country, and guess the more popular of two plates.
Recognize Fortnite skins and emotes from short video clips, a weapon hidden behind a grid of tiles, and a pickaxe from a single picture.
Name a film from a single still, unlocking a new frame after each miss, up to six; spin-offs use one frame, a title shot or the poster.
Pin down the mystery Warframe from attribute clues like its abilities and aura polarity, with extra modes built on ability icons and emoji.
Six quick perception tests covering angles, halving, landing spots, balance points, counts and timing, each with five rounds and one attempt per day.
Watch up to six GIFs from a Friends episode and name it; misses tell you whether the season is right and if the answer airs earlier or later.
A soccer puzzle hub with nearly twenty games, among them a grid, bingo, top tens, a Wordle-style player guess, connections and an impostor round.
Place nine soccer players in a three-by-three grid so each satisfies its crossing club, league or name categories, and look for the single player who fits them all.
Spot the mystery game from its box art, which comes into clearer view with each attempt; six tries, with hints on shared franchise, genres and platforms.
Guess a Genshin Impact character in five tries by comparing region, element, weapon and release version; Honkai Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero modes sit alongside.
Sort a board of geography tiles, from internet domains and land areas to flags, into hidden themed groups before your lives run out.
Guess the hidden country or territory while the map reacts, fading out wrong continents and pointing you closer; there is no cap, so aim for the fewest guesses.
Fill a nine-cell board with countries that meet one row and one column condition, like NATO membership or flag colors; less common correct picks earn higher rarity tiers.
Sixteen Street View snapshots hide four countries; group the tiles by country, with easy and expert settings and puzzles growing harder from Monday through Sunday.
Group map tiles into connected districts, each with the same number of houses, so the assigned party wins more seats than any rival, using packing and cracking.
Rebuild a hidden quotation by placing the letters stacked above each column into the right squares, with words allowed to wrap across lines.
Travel from a starting city to a target city by hopping between nearby cities, using the fewest jumps; a weekly rule-twist challenge and a route-reveal mode add variety.
Type any country and watch it shade the globe in warmer colors the closer it sits to the hidden one; there is no guess limit, only your count.
Hunt for a hidden capital city on a 3D globe, where each wrong pick is colored by its distance and joined by arcs that narrow the search.
Each of five category rounds hides five correct picks among decoys; tap the ones you are sure of and bank them before risking a trap.
Guess how Google finishes a partial search query by naming its top autocomplete suggestions; the once-a-day question mode gives everyone the same prompt.
Swap tiles until rows or columns spell words, which then clear away; empty the board within a swap limit in Mini or Daily, or chase points in Classic.
From a short excerpt and its Goodreads rating count, work out the book, with each wrong guess or skip revealing more details, up to six in all.
Name a video game from a single screenshot, unlocking another image with each wrong guess or skip, up to six in total.
A heavily blurred logo sharpens after each wrong guess or skip; name the brand within five attempts.
Six guesses to identify a film from a sequence of screenshots, with another image unlocked after every wrong or skipped answer.
Put a price on five trending products, in your choice of currency, and see how near you get; easier hit-or-miss and endless modes are also offered.
Position a knife across five 3D objects and slice each into two pieces of equal weight; an endless mode with three lives is always available.
Make one straight cut to split a shape into exact halves, thirds or quarters.
Music-only Connections: sort sixteen squares, from artist nicknames to song titles, into four themed groups, with four mistakes allowed before the answers are shown.
Five Harry Potter guessing modes: a classic character hunt with attribute clues, plus separate quote, spell, character-description and location rounds.
Every answer is a 1980s number-one hit: hear the intro, type the title, and unlock longer clips as you skip or miss; Hook mode plays mid-song instead.
Name a 1990s track from its opening seconds, earning longer clips with every skip or wrong answer; a Hook option plays from the middle instead.
Hear a brief clip of a popular song and name it in up to six tries, with each skip or miss lengthening the snippet.
K-pop edition of the intro-guessing format: hear the opening of a track by groups and soloists, type the title, and earn longer clips after each skip.
Recognize a television theme tune from a tiny opening snippet, with each skip or incorrect pick stretching the clip a little longer.
Type a six-character hex code to match the color shown, with each digit marked as too high, too low or correct; a Mini edition also runs.
An NBA player grid with unlimited guesses per square and live rarity scoring, plus hint and reverse modes and a one-on-one challenge against a friend.
A crowd of beans, sheep or stars flashes up for a moment. Guess the count, then see the crowd's average.
Estimate main story, side content and completionist hours for three games, plus their user rating, with a single power-up available each round.
Soccer's take on the grid: nine squares crossing clubs and achievements, in World and English football versions, filled with players in nine guesses.
Fill a three-by-three grid with MLB players who satisfy both the team or stat on their row and column, using nine guesses; obscure picks earn a better rarity score.
Name NHL players for nine squares, each matching both a franchise and an achievement such as a season milestone, using nine guesses and chasing a low rarity score.
Pick NBA players who fit each pairing of franchise and stat category across a nine-square board, with nine guesses and a rarity score that rewards deep cuts.
The NFL edition of Sports Reference's grid: nine squares, each crossing two categories such as a franchise and first-team All-Pro honors, and nine guesses to fill them.
A WNBA-focused grid where each square crosses a team, college or season stat, and you have nine guesses to name a qualifying player for all of them.
Answer clues pulled from past Jeopardy episodes, then bet your earnings on one final question in this short quiz.
Assemble a jigsaw built from a vintage news photo in the LA Times collection, then browse older puzzles and track your solve times.
Three grids of rising difficulty arrive each day, and each must be filled with pieces you can rotate and also resize to fit; weekly leaderboards restart Mondays.
Unscramble several short words, then use their circled letters to crack the pun that captions a cartoon, in the newspaper puzzle running since 1954.
Five head-to-head questions ask which of two places ranks higher on a census-style statistic such as poverty rate, with difficulty climbing each round.
Fling a golf ball up a towering course, dragging to aim and releasing to shoot, and try to reach the summit in the fewest strokes.
Answer seven quick prompts, 25 seconds apiece, and score depth for answers few others gave, since common replies barely move you down.
Choose a whole number up to 100. The guess nearest a set fraction of the day's average wins, so you are really predicting everyone else.
Guess a secret word whose length isn't fixed, using letter-by-letter feedback on each attempt; it comes from the Daydash studio that also makes Contexto.
Trace words through touching tiles in a four-by-four grid before ninety seconds run out.
Pulled from a real online game, one tactics position asks you to spot the strongest move and play out the rest of the line, no account needed.
Look at a photo and name the country it came from; each wrong pick shows the distance between the photo's spot and that country's center.
Several modes hide a League of Legends champion for you to find, through attribute clues in Classic, quotes, ability icons, emoji strings or a cropped slice of splash art.
One enormous illustration hides five odd objects. Find them in any order, as quickly as you can.
Read a line of lyrics and name the song; every wrong guess or skip adds the next line until you get it or run out of tries.
Start the clock, read the first hint, and click the mystery country on a zoomable world map, with fresh hints arriving after every wrong click.
Sketch the named country's borders freehand and get scored on the match; limited hints can briefly flash the shape or uncover a stretch of the border.
Tap five places on a rotating 3D globe, scoring more the nearer you land to each, with a short historical story attached to every location.
Pin down the day's MCU character by comparing traits after each try, with a quote, appearance list and actor clue unlocking after set numbers of attempts.
Find the checkmating move in puzzle after puzzle taken from real games, against a ninety-second clock.
Work out a secret six-symbol equation that hits the posted target, in six tries, where each attempt must also evaluate to that target.
Guide your red square to the blue goal along the longest route you can find, moving only toward sides where you touch a single neighboring rectangle.
Five songs per challenge: listen to each and drop a pin on the world map where the artist comes from, scoring for both accuracy and speed.
Memory meets sudoku: flip hidden tiles two at a time to find matching numbers, gradually revealing a full grid where each digit appears nine times.
Plants you guess grow a branching tree of shared ancestry that homes in on the mystery species, with 25 tries to find it.
Every animal you guess joins a family tree showing where it shares ancestry with the mystery species; you have 20 tries to land on the exact one.
Arrange ingredients on a crafting grid to work out the mystery Minecraft recipe, getting slot-by-slot color feedback over ten guesses.
Minesweeper boards that never force a coin-flip guess, with no game overs, free hints, and a new oddly sized challenge board each day alongside the standard sizes.
A small, quick-solve grid from the L.A. Times with a timer, built for a short break; free registration adds streak and speed tracking.
Sink the ball on three computer-generated mini golf holes shared by every player, using bank shots off walls to keep your stroke count low.
One cryptic crossword clue per day, with a definition and wordplay to untangle, plus free step-by-step courses for anyone new to cryptics.
Pick which of two things has the bigger number, such as Google search volume, across several categories; Lessgames also runs Guessless and Songless.
Cover a three-by-three board with films that fit each row and column pairing, such as an actor plus a title rule, using nine guesses.
Connect two films through shared actors, hopping from movie to cast member to movie, and try to find the shortest possible chain.
Identify the film from its cast list, which reveals actor names alongside their ages at release, plus genre, director and year clues as you guess.
Crack a short murder mystery by cross-referencing suspects, weapons and locations in a logic grid, with a gentler mini for newcomers, from author G. T. Karber.
Match a song clip to one of four choices, or in Royale mode place six songs among nine options without a miss, across more than twenty themed categories.
Name every country that shares a border with the one highlighted on the map, choosing from a full country list.
Deduce a hidden eight-character equation, digits and operators included, in six tries, with Wordle-style colors showing which symbols sit in the right place.
Join points with lines to complete triangles and gradually expose a hand-built picture, much like the NYT game Vertex.
Shade squares on a nonogram using the run-length clues along every line to uncover a hidden pixel picture, with a tutorial for beginners and a large archive.
Find the mystery Animal Crossing villager guess by guess; a Nookonomics mode sits alongside, with poster and song modes listed as coming soon.
Combine the given numbers with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to hit a target, Countdown style, with a bonus target for extra credit.
Eight hidden five-letter words, eight boards and 13 guesses, with each entry scored against every board still unsolved.
Two inventions, events or brands at a time: tap whichever came first and learn the dates behind it.
Place a single figurine on a shared snow-globe planet, then spin it to see what everyone else added today.
Find the only five-letter word lurking in a 5x5 grid, reading any direction including backward, then do it again until ten are found; faster solves earn more stars.
Watch a video of one real person and name the country they represent, with three guesses and eight optional clues that cost more points as they get easier.
Guess an Overwatch hero from trait comparisons, and in a second mode work out an in-game conversation between heroes.
Squeeze a teapot, a lamp and even a piano into a moving box, with real physics deciding what fits.
Recreate every national flag by filling in its colors from memory, 195 in all, with three lives and no time limit.
A color flashes up briefly, then you rebuild it on a picker from memory. Five shades a day, scored on how near you get.
Shown a passport design, name the country that issued it; the small game was built by its creator for a circle of friends.
Four historical clues point to a single year; work out which one. The German-made site also offers an English version.
Guess words to expose the introduction of a hidden Wikipedia article; near misses appear in shades of gray by meaning, and uncovering the title words wins.
One real hotel, one nightly price to pin down in six tries; each miss reveals another photo and detail, and landing within 5 percent wins.
Guess a hidden multi-word phrase, Wordle style, where an extra purple color flags letters that belong in a different word of the phrase.
Drop cards one by one into a grid, building poker hands across rows, columns and the four corners to score as many as you can.
Guesses appear as points on a map of meaning around the secret word, alongside markers showing where other players are probing, with a long archive of past rounds.
Five places and one blank world map. Pin each one, then see how your distance compares with everyone else's.
Lay dominoes onto a board of colored regions so each region's pips meet its rule, such as a target sum or matching values, at three difficulty levels.
Work out an airplane's manufacturer, model and operating airline from a tight crop that widens with every wrong guess, within five attempts.
Name a movie from its plot keywords, revealed one at a time, while spending as few of the nine available clues as you can.
Eight guesses to find the mystery NBA player, with each guess compared on team, conference, division, position, height, age and jersey number, from the players' union.
Narrow down the secret Pokémon by comparing each guess on typing, generation, size and base stats until you find the match.
Fill nine cells with Pokémon that fit both their row and column, such as a type and a region, with nine guesses and a rarity score where lower wins.
Three Texas Hold'em hands sit face up beside a chart ranking them on each street; deduce the exact five community cards within six tries.
Wordle for numbers: guess a five-digit prime in six tries, with every guess required to be prime and colored by digit placement.
An NHL grid with nine shots for nine squares, each crossing teams, positions or career stats, plus a uniqueness score and Pyramid and Puck Buddies modes.
Line up putts on one 3D mini golf hole by dragging back to set power; water returns you to your last spot, and only your top finish counts.
Locate eight hidden queens, one per row and column and never touching diagonally, using Minesweeper-style numbers that count adjacent queens.
Straight-definition clues in a compact grid from the Guardian, published Monday through Saturday with a reader comment thread for each puzzle.
Answer five multiple-choice general knowledge questions and share your result; the same site hosts Cryptl, Hex and Scrambled.
Every guess hits four Wordle boards simultaneously, and you get nine tries to crack all four words; Extreme, Chill, Sequence and Rescue modes add twists.
Pick the film behind a famous line of dialogue, with up to six quotes from the same movie revealed as your guesses miss.
Climb a themed word ladder between two words by matching a shuffled list of clues to each rung's transformation, from Sandy Weisz's Mystery League.
Drag five things into order by calories, height, age or distance, then check the true figures.
Pick out which items on a themed list are genuine and which were invented, with a fresh topic each day from the studio behind Gubbins.
Judge seven flags in turn and call each one genuine or invented; players can also submit their own designs for future rounds.
Pieces are handed out at random instead of the standard setup, so opening theory is useless as you hunt for a checkmate against the black king.
Uncover a fully blacked-out Wikipedia article by guessing words, each revealing every place it appears, until you can name the page title.
Five short beats a day: hear each pattern a single time, then repeat it by tapping one big button.
Listen to a short riff, then replay it note by note on an on-screen piano, with colors marking correct notes in the right or wrong positions; three difficulty levels.
Click photo tiles to turn them upright again, trying to finish in no more clicks than the ideal solution; a three-second peek at the full image costs one click.
Two plates of food appear side by side with their prices; pick the one that voters rated higher, round after round.
Hunt for a secret word by meaning, not spelling: each guess gets a word2vec similarity score, and guesses inside the nearest thousand show their rank.
Pick which of several candidate outlines matches the reference shape, working through five shapes in a quick test of your eye.
Identify the mystery TV series in up to sixteen guesses, each compared with the answer on network, genre, format, premiere year and number of seasons.
Anagram a handful of letters into a word, then take on one more letter and do it again, building longer words with each round.
Six Hollow Knight: Silksong modes test you on characters by trait clues, bestiary entries, blurred silhouettes, emoji tool hints, voice lines and locations.
Identify a Simpsons episode from a series of up to six GIFs, with each miss showing whether you picked the right season and which way to move.
Five modes test your Super Smash Bros. roster knowledge: attribute clues, a Final Smash animation, Kirby's copied look, emoji strings and silhouettes.
Hear the song of the day and fill in three answers, the artist, the title and the release year, with an optional leaderboard for signed-in players.
Name a song from a clip that starts at a tenth of a second and grows with each miss, across genre lists such as Rock, Hip Hop and EDM.
Listen to five tones, then match each pitch from memory by dragging a frequency slider; a daily set sits behind the calendar icon.
TED's spelling game, built by Paolo Pasco from an Answer in Progress idea, serves up a new batch of words to spell correctly.
Trace words through a tower of letter tiles; used tiles vanish, the stack shifts down, and long words clear extra tiles around them for bigger scores.
Compare two versions of a picture and mark all ten changes on the upper copy, or print it with or without its answer key.
Ten guesses to identify a music artist from a pool of about a thousand, with each wrong pick compared to the answer on details like genre and nationality.
Swipe chains of touching letters, diagonals included, to uncover every word hidden in a small square grid; a quicker Express puzzle joins the main one each day.
Fill a 5x5 square in which every row and every column reads as a word, using five-letter guesses that reveal letter positions, and aim for the fewest tries.
Within nine tries, find a mystery Pokémon using emoji hints that compare generation, type, height and weight with each pick.
Guess a hidden astronomy-related word in six tries, with Wordle-style color feedback on every letter.
Drop stars onto a grid of shaded regions so none touch and each row, column and region holds its required number, in this Inkwell Games puzzle.
Identify a U.S. state from its outline in six guesses, with each wrong answer showing how far off and in which direction the target lies.
Choose players for each row's requirement to rack up the biggest total in the day's stat category, such as WAR, with MLB, NBA and NFL boards.
Read player reviews pulled from Steam and name the game, gaining another clue after each miss across six guesses.
Hunt for theme words by linking adjacent letters on a six-by-eight board, then find the spangram that spans it; every letter gets used exactly once.
Classic 9x9 number placement from the Times, offered as three separate grids graded easy, medium and hard.
Standard sudoku from the L.A. Times at several difficulty levels, with a browsable archive and free registration for streaks and timing.
Six-by-six sudokus on a clock that gains time with every grid you finish.
Reach a target number by chaining sums of the number tiles in at most five steps, using each tile once and reusing subtotals in later sums.
Strike out numbers until every line across and down totals the target at its edge, against a running clock, with 5x5 and 7x7 boards.
Trade letter positions on a 5x5 board until all rows and columns form words; green and yellow tiles guide you, and fewer swaps earn more stars.
Taylor Swift songs only: hear a short clip and name the track within six attempts, with longer snippets after each miss and a faster Rapid mode.
Read five genuine NYT headlines from 1900 onward and name the year each ran, scoring more the closer you get.
Navigate from one Wikipedia article to a target article using only in-page links, aiming for the shortest chain of clicks, then compare with yesterday's fastest route.
Five questions, each worth three points on the first clue and less as you request up to two more; it comes from pub quiz outfit Geeks Who Drink.
Place eight historical events, each in turn, around an anchor fixed on the timeline; every drop is marked right or wrong instantly, and you never type a date.
Sit through five timed intervals, then reproduce each length from memory as closely as you can; the daily version lives behind the calendar icon.
Each historic photo asks where on Earth and in what year it was taken, answered with a map pin and a year slider; the daily round uses five shots.
Put a year on each of a handful of major historical events and see how close you land; a multiplayer option pits friends against the same set.
Reorder a short list of events pulled from many centuries and regions into the sequence they happened, then check whether your order holds up.
Decide, event by event, whether each came earlier or later than the year on screen; marathon modes and special runs extend play past the day's set.
Set five odd weights on a brass balance and try to make it come to rest perfectly level.
With five lives, find the five entries that top a ranked list by picking from searchable options; getting them in exact order is an optional extra.
Read a treemap of one country's exports and name the country in six guesses, with distance and direction hints after each miss.
Pan and zoom around four travel photos hunting for clues, then drop a marker on the map; the nearer each pin lands, the higher your score.
Link two countries by naming the chain of neighbors between them, within a guess allowance set by the route; three optional hints can sketch outlines or initials.
Search a world map for the spot where the day's treasure lies, narrowing in with each attempt; normal and expert difficulties are offered, plus player-made hunts.
Lay letter tiles to stretch words across a shared board toward the rival's town, cutting off their tiles as you go; a daily puzzle sits beside solo and multiplayer play.
Listen to a song snippet and pinpoint its country of origin in five tries, steered by a compass arrow, hot-to-cold proximity colors and unlockable genre, instrument and region hints.
Slide letter columns up and down so a row spells a word, and keep going until every letter has been part of at least one word.
Answer eight prompts with something real but rare. The fewer people who would say it, the higher your rocket climbs.
Fill a small grid so every across and down entry is a real word and every letter A to Z appears exactly once, with no clues to lean on.
Five Valorant modes ask you to name agents from attribute clues, ability icons or emoji, and to spot weapon skins and map locations from images.
Given a country's name, recreate its flag without a reference using brush, fill and shape tools, then see a percentage score against the real thing.
From a single scenic view, figure out the country within six attempts, with the distance to the answer shown in kilometers or miles after each miss.
Free crossword grids from Vox, overseen by editor Sarah Schweppe, appear Monday through Saturday and come in printable form too.
Swap letters around a lattice-shaped grid until all six words, three across and three down, are correct, with 15 swaps to spend and stars for leftovers.
Get from the top word to the bottom word by altering one letter per move, using only real words, and try to match the posted optimal number of steps.
Guess the mystery NFL player, comparing traits such as team and position after each miss, on a site packed with other football modes like Draftle and grids.
Estimate how many familiar things, from house cats to bowling balls, it would take to balance a heavy object on the scale, across five objects.
Pin the spot where you think a photo was shot and choose its year on a slider; optional hints and a commentary bot can nudge your reasoning.
Study a film still, then pin where on the map and pick what year the scene takes place; points reward how close both answers come.
Study a photograph and name the country or territory where it was shot, then unlock bonus rounds about that place.
Name the U.S. state or territory shown in a photograph, with proximity hints after misses, then move on to bonus questions about it.
Date five real-world photos on a scale running from 1850 to 2025, scoring more for near misses; optional digit reveals help when a picture has you stumped.
Every card names something from Wikipedia with a known year, such as an invention or event; slot each new card into its correct spot on a growing timeline.
Spell entries at least four letters long from a seven-letter flower, the middle letter required each time, to rise through ranks toward Golden Poppy.
The Guardian hands you a short starter word and five attempts to find the longest word containing it, scoring both length and total letters used.
Six attempts to pin down a hidden five-letter word, with green, yellow and gray tiles marking right spots, misplaced letters and misses after every guess.
Crack five-letter words with unlimited guesses while a clock runs down; each solved word buys back a few seconds.
Name the country whose silhouette is shown within six guesses; each miss reports distance and direction to the answer, and bonus rounds follow.
Explore a world map to pin down a mystery city, picking up another clue after each wrong guess, in Sporcle's numbered series.
Identify the AFL player of the day in eight guesses, using colored hints on team, state, position, age, height and guernsey number, with an optional silhouette.
Two secret five-letter words that share no letters are hidden at once, and each guess is colored against both, so you must untangle which clue belongs where.
Five music videos, one shared set for all players: estimate the release year of each and see how close you land.
Three events that all happened in one mystery year are listed; type your guess, BC dates included, and more hints arrive with each miss.
Every event shares today's calendar date; name the exact year of each while a pool of 100 lives drains by one for every year your guess misses.
Einstein-style logic puzzles: read a list of clues about people standing side by side and deduce each one's attributes, with past puzzles and printable versions.
Recognize Legend of Zelda bosses from images and name songs from short audio clips, with character, enemy and item modes listed as coming soon.