Logic and math dailies come in a few families. Grid puzzles hand you an empty board and three or four rules about what may go where. Deduction games tell a short story and leave you to work out who is guilty, or who is lying. Number games hide an equation behind colored tiles, or set a target to reach with the numbers you are given.
This page takes a few games from each family and says what each one asks of you. For variety, pair a grid with a case and a number game rather than three of a kind. Each one is free to play in a browser, and the daily puzzle opens without signing in.
Each board starts empty, or nearly so, with a short list of rules about what may sit where. Tango Unlimited and Star Battle both promise a single solution that logic alone will reach, so crossing out impossible cells carries you most of the way. The Akari and Tango lists have more boards in this style.
The Nikoli grid type also called Light Up. Put bulbs on empty cells until every white square is lit, with no bulb in another bulb’s line of sight and each numbered wall touching exactly that many. Every board names its setter and carries a rating, and the archive filters by difficulty, so beginners can start low.
An independent, free version of LinkedIn’s sun and moon grid. Fill six by six cells so each row and column holds three of each, with no three alike side by side and = or × marks between some neighbors. Its Hint button explains which rule decides the next cell, which makes it a patient teacher.
Sometimes called Two Not Touch: one star per row, per column and per colored region of a six-by-six grid, and no two stars may touch, diagonals included. Fans of queens-style grids will know the rules. The daily board changes at your local midnight, and Unlimited adds 5×5 and 8×8 boards.
A nonogram with two symbols. Every square must end as either bell or whistle, the numbers along each row count runs of bells and those above each column count runs of whistles, so every mark answers to both. Mini, Classic and Large sizes let you start small. Puzzmallow, a UK studio of two, makes it.
These tell a small story through clues and statements, and the answer comes from testing each one against the rest. More cases are on the Murdle and Clues By Sam lists.
G. T. Karber’s daily case sets out its suspects, weapons and places as cards, follows them with clues, then lets every suspect make one statement. Only the killer’s statement is false, so finding the lie solves the case. Beginners can warm up on a smaller mini case, and Sunday’s case is the largest of the week.
The opposite of Murdle in one respect: nobody lies here, criminals included. Each of the 20 people you clear or accuse may reveal a new clue, and neighbors count diagonally, up to eight around a card. The game refuses any move the clues cannot yet prove, which suits anyone who hates guessing.
Three boxes, three claims, and gems in just one of them. At least one box always tells the truth, at least one always lies, and you get two openings. Sorting out which boxes are honest is a compact riddle modeled on the Parlor room in Blue Prince, though the site has no tie to that game.
Here arithmetic is the puzzle. Two of these hide an equation behind colored tiles, one sets a target to reach with the numbers on offer, and one asks which numbers to cross out. The Nerdle and Numble lists have more.
Wordle turned into arithmetic: eight characters of digits, operators and a single equals sign, six tries, and every guess has to be a true equation before it is scored. Purple marks a symbol in the wrong place. Multiplication comes before addition, and swapped terms are accepted, so 10+20 is as good as 20+10.
Shows the answer and hides the sum. Every guess must already equal the target, and the colors tell you which digits and signs are in place. Each of its four levels gets its own daily, from Easy, a five-square sum with one operator, to Extreme, which takes away the yellow clue altogether.
A numbers round in the spirit of Countdown. Press Start, then join the given numbers with the four operations until you land on the target, and each result you bank becomes a new number to use. Steps can be undone one at a time, a harder bonus target follows, and earlier days wait in an archive.
Every row and column has a target total at its edge, and you solve by crossing out each number that spoils a total. The 5x5 daily is identical for every player, with a clock counting hundredths of a second, which suits anyone who likes racing a clock, and a 7x7 daily is there for a longer solve.
No rounds or levels here, just a single problem for the day. Chess players will find more boards on the chess puzzles page.
One brainteaser a day on BrainBashers, Kevin Stone’s site without ads, sometimes a number problem and sometimes a riddle or word puzzle. There is room on the page to jot your workings, Hint and Answer buttons for when you want them, and roughly a month of earlier puzzles in a drop-down. A Print button turns it into a paper copy.
A single chess position, a side to move and a strongest continuation to find. The puzzles stiffen as the week goes on, easiest on Monday and hardest on Sunday, and a Hint button helps when you stall. No Chess.com account is needed, so casual players can try one without signing up.
Only games listed on Today’s Dailies were considered, which means each is free, runs in a web browser and opens its daily puzzle without an account. Their links are tested nightly, and any reset time quoted here came from the game’s own site or its countdown clock. Within that, the picks aim for range: a few per family, each described and none ranked. All 13 picks were opened in a phone-sized browser between November 4 and November 5, 2026 and loaded, and 12 of them fit the screen without sideways scrolling.
Yes. You can play every one in a browser at no cost, and none makes you sign in first. Accounts, where offered, are extras: Clues By Sam’s free one keeps your results and opens the previous week’s puzzles.
Murdle points newcomers to a smaller mini case, Daily Akari’s archive starts at Very Easy, and Bells & Whistles has a Mini size. Clues By Sam and the Chess.com Daily Puzzle both get harder as the week goes on, so Monday is the gentlest day to start.
Mathler has a separate daily for each of its four levels, and Sumplete adds a 7x7 daily to its 5x5. Tango Unlimited and Star Battle offer unlimited boards once the daily is done, and Daily Akari and Numble keep earlier days in an archive.
