Stacked
Fifteen words hide groups of one, two, three, four and five; find each connection, with limited lives and a hint or definition when stuck.
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Fifteen words hide groups of one, two, three, four and five; find each connection, with limited lives and a hint or definition when stuck.
Grow a tower of words by swapping in one new letter and reshuffling at each step, drawing from a limited pool, with eight words as the perfect stack.
Spin an unlabeled 3D globe and pin five venues used for football, cricket or rugby, scoring up to 1,000 each by distance, with a legendary match as the final round.
Ten pairs of well-known things and a purse of 100 coins: pick which is bigger, faster or older, then wager any amount and double it if you are right.
Place six stars on a 6x6 grid so each row, each column and each colored region gets exactly one, with no two stars touching even at the corners.
Uncover the Star Wars character of the day using up to ten hints, a pixelated image or a spec comparison, with a freeplay mode alongside.
Play through seven Stardew Valley puzzles: an item, a villager, a pixel sprite, a loved gift, a quote, sixteen finds to sort into bundles and a Junimo riddle.
Guess a hidden astronomy-related word in six tries, with Wordle-style color feedback on every letter.
Chart a 7 by 7 sky by giving each row, each column and each named constellation exactly one star, with no stars touching, diagonals included, against the clock.
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.
Star Battle on a 10x10 board: each row, column and shaded region needs exactly two stars, and no two stars may touch each other.
Spin a globe and tap the spot tied to each of five famous musicians, athletes and screen stars, guided by a short clue about where part of their story took place.
Twelve NBA questions in four quarters, each answered by picking one of five players on the floor before the 10-second clock expires.
Fill in the full line-up of a famous game, like a World Cup final, by typing players in any order until all eleven spots are taken, with three hints and five mistakes.
Identify the Star Trek character from species, affiliation, role, rank, shows and debut, with each guess showing a full, partial or no match.
Each guess at the hidden Star Wars character is checked on homeworld, species, Force side, affiliation, lightsaber color and debut, with groups and quote modes too.
Solve a small crossword themed on health, medicine and life science, with a fresh grid each weekday rather than every day.
A world map shades every country by a hidden statistic; name it, with each guess scored on how closely its own map matches and new clues after each miss.
Nine cells, each needing a US state that matches its row and column clues, like bordering three states or fewer or hosting an Ivy League school; five mistakes allowed.
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.
Compare states and regions across the Americas on a daily statistic, choosing the top, bottom or exact match or spotting the outlier, plus a weekly survival mode.
Guess your way through three NBA games built on all-time career stats: an over-or-under call, a clash of two careers and a target to hit, from easy to hard.
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.
Identify mystery athletes from their career paths or stat lines, with nine games spread across the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, WNBA, MLS, UFC and Premier League.
Guess which Steal a Brainrot brainrot is hidden today, with each try compared on rarity, cost, income, body, how it is obtained, color and when it was added.
Read player reviews pulled from Steam and name the game, gaining another clue after each miss across six guesses.
Read up to five joking Steam user reviews and name the game they describe, with each wrong guess unlocking another review.
Guess hidden words in a Wordle-style format, reading the letter feedback after each try to step your way toward the answer.
Solve four Wordle stages in a row, a four-letter word up to a seven-letter one, sharing a single budget of twenty guesses across all of them.
Link two words of equal length by altering a single letter per rung, keeping every rung a real word, and aim to match or beat par, with bonuses for unusual steps.
Each answer reuses all the letters of the one before plus a single new letter, rearranged, across an eight-step main ladder and a shorter five-step version.
Proofread a short news brief in which most sentences hide a misused real word, like free reign or should of, then correct it or mark a sentence stet if nothing is wrong.
Name any F1 driver from the 2014 season on, and colored tiles compare flag, team, car number, age, debut year and wins with the mystery driver, six tries in all.
Plan a road trip between two distant cities by naming real places en route, each within the fuel range of your last stop.
Six questions, each scored on how rare your correct response is, with uncommon answers powering a marooned alien's escape toward one of nine endings.
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.
Name the Stranger Things character as each guess compares age bracket, role, the groups they belong to, status and their first and last seasons.
Identify a mystery city from a 3D model that builds up from bare terrain through weather, water and roads to buildings, with five guesses.
Name the hidden Street Fighter character, comparing each pick by debut game, home country, gender, fighting style and alignment, with art and quote modes too.
Watch a Guitar Hero-like note chart scroll and name the song it charts, with six tries and two extra seconds of play after every wrong answer.
Find the exact three-train New York subway routing between two stations in six tries, with colors marking a train in the right spot, a shared routing or the wrong spot.
Seat a cast of suspects on the floor plan of a real place, one per row and column, using what each said, then work out the victim, killer and accomplice.
Rearrange playing cards on a grid so that its rows and columns make stronger poker hands, scoring the whole layout like a sudoku of hands.
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.