Waffle
jessian · wafflegame.net · Words
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.
Daily games with an archive of past puzzles
Missing a day is the usual way a daily habit stops. The games on this page keep a back catalog on their own site, so a puzzle you skipped on Tuesday is still there on Friday, and a new player can work through weeks of old ones before the next fresh puzzle arrives.
Words
32 games
Contexto
Daydash · contexto.me · Words
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.
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Semantle
David Turner · semantle.com · Words
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.
Pimantle
pimanrules · semantle.pimanrul.es · Words
The picture is the point: instead of a bare ranked list, the plot shows clusters of guesses and where they stall, and a free archive holds well over a thousand past words. The site warns it is designed for desktop, though it runs on phones.
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Weaver
weavergame.org · Words
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.
23 Words
Word Nerd · wordnerd.co · Words
A separate clock for every word means one blank does not sink the run, and the free archive lets you go back through earlier days, each marked with your score or as not played yet.
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Fibble
fibble.xyz · Words
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.
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One Word Search
puzzlist.com · Words
The first find costs nothing on the clock, so a slow start is forgiven, and a free archive reaches back to February 20, 2024, with 990 earlier grids as of November 7 that leave your daily statistics untouched.
RADDLE
Sandy Weisz · raddle.quest · Words
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.
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Squareword
squareword.org · Words
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.
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Daily Analogy
dailyanalogy.com · Words
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.
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Quick Crossword
The Guardian · theguardian.com · Words
Straight-definition clues in a compact grid from the Guardian, published Monday through Saturday with a reader comment thread for each puzzle.
4 x 3
Hank Green · hankgreen.com · Words
Split a grid of words into four categories of three, with a twist: a single word belongs to every group at once, and mistakes are counted.
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Bracket City
The Atlantic · theatlantic.com · Words
Solve clues nested inside other clues, working from the innermost bracket outward until a sentence about this date in history is complete.
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Cadgy
Datamuse · onelook.com · Words
Build five-letter words by taking one tile from each of five columns, finding ten common words plus ten rarer bonus words hinted by definitions.
Summit Game
summit-puzzle.me · Words
Place every letter from the tray into a pyramid of five interlocking words, starting from a few green letters, with reveals costing a minute on the clock.
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Word500
word500.com · Words
A Wordle-style word puzzle aimed at experienced players who want a tougher daily solve than the usual guess-the-word format.
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Also: Cell Tower · Crossword · Cascadle · Categories · Chainle · Chiddle · CHN LNK · Connections Game · Daily Fill-Ins · Decipher · Doople · Flipple · Guess My Word · Elided · Hidden Joey
Geography
11 games
WorldlePopular
Teuteuf Games · worldle.teuteuf.fr · Geography
Name the country whose silhouette is shown within six guesses; each miss reports distance and direction to the answer, and bonus rounds follow.
MapTap
maptap.gg · Geography
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.
TimeGuessr
timeguessr.com · Geography
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.
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Geografind
CoffeeFirst.games · coffeefirst.games · Geography
Unlimited guesses and a reacting map make it forgiving for newcomers, while the leaderboard rewards a tight count. The 1 km rule for neighbors tells you at once when you are next door, and a free archive lists every earlier puzzle.
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Originle
originle.io · Geography
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.
Energle
Oscar Viguié · energle.org · Geography
Electricity data, from total output and demand per person to source mix and carbon intensity, points to a hidden country; find it in six guesses, extra clues optional.
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Guess the Chain
guessthechain.com · Geography
A US map shows every location of one mystery store or restaurant chain; name it in six guesses as each miss compares business type, location count and map overlap.
Also: Flagdoku · Geonections · Chartle · Farflung
Math & Logic
13 games
Mathler
Hey, Good Game · mathler.com · Math & Logic
Work out a secret six-symbol equation that hits the posted target, in six tries, where each attempt must also evaluate to that target.
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Numble
numble.wtf · Math & Logic
Combine the given numbers with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to hit a target, Countdown style, with a bonus target for extra credit.
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Sudoku
Los Angeles Times · latimes.com · Math & Logic
Five levels let the same page serve a short break or a long solve, and the timer with its personal-record notice gives regulars something to chase. Registration is free and adds achievements and streaks.
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Daily Puzzle
BrainBashers · brainbashers.com · Math & Logic
A fresh brainteaser, riddle or word puzzle from Kevin Stone's ad-free BrainBashers, with a hint, a worked answer and a printable version.
Daily Akari
Singfisher Games · dailyakari.com · Math & Logic
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.
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Clue Raider
N.M.A. Pitman · clueraider.com · Math & Logic
The clues read like a small detective story, and the row and column rule gives the solve a Sudoku-like rhythm without numbers. A free archive holds every past Lost Relic, and two quite different side puzzles share the page.
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Knotilus
knotil.us · Math & Logic
Use ten numbers to build three rising four-number sequences, each term after the second being the sum of the prior two, with one knot number in all three.
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Also: Mineswifter · Cancelwise · FlashPopTiles · Alibi · Daily Unfold · Grandma's Knitting
Trivia
11 games
Krillion
krillion.io · Trivia
Answer seven quick prompts, 25 seconds apiece, and score depth for answers few others gave, since common replies barely move you down.
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Catfishing
catfishing.net · Trivia
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.
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Disorderly
Weston · playdisorderly.com · Trivia
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.
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The Wiki Game Daily
Hey, Good Game · thewikigamedaily.com · Trivia
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.
Centumth
Eliass · centumth.com · Trivia
Five guesses at a hidden ranked list of 100 on one topic, where obvious picks near the top score little and overlooked answers near #100 score most.
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Daily Tens
dailytens.com · Trivia
Name all ten entries of a ranked top-ten list on the day's topic, with five wrong answers ending the round and past lists kept in an archive.
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Also: Jeopardiem · Factle Sports · Allegedly · Earlier · Country Scales
Visual
7 games
Rotaboxes
Trizo · rotaboxes.com · Visual
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.
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Gerrymandle
gerrymandle.com · Visual
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.
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Also: Cropple · Collagedle · Emoji Test · faces · Hexcodle Mini
Movies & TV
13 games
Framed
framed.wtf · Movies & TV
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.
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Also: Moviedle · Cinematrix · Movie Grid · Quotesed · Showdle · FilmLink · Actorle · Actorle TV · Cinema Circuit · Flickle · Gaps · Cast Six
Music
9 gamesHeardle 90s · Spotle · Songdle · Crosstune · Harmonies: Music Connections · Heardle K-pop · FlipList Daily · Heardle 1970's · Heardle 2000's
Sports
3 gamesHoopgrids · StatPad Game · Guess the NBA Player
Gaming
1 gameOther daily games
10 gamesFermi · Scrandle · enclose.horse · Magnitudle · Size It Up · Minigolfle · Daily Rinds · Floored · At What Point? · Babushka
How this list is made
A game is listed here only when its archive was seen on the game itself while its page on this site was written: a calendar, a list of past numbers or a "previous puzzles" button that opens earlier days for free. Archives behind a subscription are left out, and so are copies of a game hosted somewhere else. How far back each one goes differs, from the last week to every puzzle since launch, so open the game to see its range.
Playing an old puzzle rarely counts toward a streak. Most of these games keep the streak for the day’s puzzle only, so play today’s first and the archive after.
Questions
Which daily games let you play past puzzles?
110 of the games listed here keep an archive of earlier days on their own site, including Waffle, Contexto, Semantle and Pimantle. The list above is grouped by kind of game.
Do archive puzzles count toward a streak?
Usually not. A streak counts days in a row on the day’s own puzzle, so most games leave archive plays out of it. Play the current puzzle first if the streak matters to you.
Are these archives free?
Every archive on this list opened without paying when it was checked. Archives that need a subscription are not listed here.
Keep exploring
Daily games with unlimited modes · How to keep a daily game streak · Daily game reset times · A starter lineup of daily games