today’s dailies

Daily math and logic puzzles

Pure reasoning, a new puzzle a day. Here you will find deduction mysteries, number guessers in the Wordle mold, grid puzzles with one clean solution, and a few chess and card puzzles for good measure.

None of them need an account. Most take five to fifteen minutes, and the hardest ones are worth a second cup of coffee.

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38 games

Every math & logic game

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DI

Daily IQ

gamefinity.io · Math & Logic

Ten reasoning puzzles with no timer, though quicker answers earn a higher score.

DS

Dig Site

gamefinity.io · Math & Logic

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.

E

Exactly

gamefinity.io · Math & Logic

Combine six number cards with plus, minus, times and divide to land on the target. Three sums a day.

TT

Tip the Scales

gamefinity.io · Math & Logic

Set five odd weights on a brass balance and try to make it come to rest perfectly level.

LO

Law of Averages

gamefinity.io · Math & Logic

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.

MI

Mate in One

gamefinity.io · Math & Logic

Find the checkmating move in puzzle after puzzle taken from real games, against a ninety-second clock.

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SS

Sudoku Sprint

gamefinity.io · Math & Logic

Six-by-six sudokus on a clock that gains time with every grid you finish.

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N

Nerdle

nerdlegame.com · Math & Logic

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.

M

Mathler

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.

N

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.

CB

Clues By Sam

cluesbysam.com · Math & Logic

Twenty characters fill a grid, and each revealed clue helps you mark people as innocent or criminal; puzzles grow harder from Monday to Sunday.

M

MurdleEditor’s pick

murdle.com · Math & Logic

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.

S

Sudoku

The New York Times · nytimes.com · Math & Logic

Classic 9x9 number placement from the Times, offered as three separate grids graded easy, medium and hard.

P

Pips

The New York Times · nytimes.com · Math & Logic

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.

S

Sudoku

Los Angeles Times · latimes.com · Math & Logic

Standard sudoku from the L.A. Times at several difficulty levels, with a browsable archive and free registration for streaks and timing.

ZP

Zebra Puzzles

zebrapuzzles.com · Math & Logic

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.

S

Summle

summle.net · Math & Logic

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.

S

Sumplete

sumplete.com · Math & Logic

Strike out numbers until every line across and down totals the target at its edge, against a running clock, with 5x5 and 7x7 boards.

P

Primel

converged.yt · Math & Logic

Wordle for numbers: guess a five-digit prime in six tries, with every guess required to be prime and colored by digit placement.

DP

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.

DA

Daily Akari

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.

DF

Domino Fit

dominofit.isotropic.us · Math & Logic

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.

F

Figure

figure.game · Math & Logic

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.

M

Memoku

Puzzmo · puzzmo.com · Math & Logic

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.

F

Fields

inkwellgames.com · Math & Logic

Shade each cell one of two colors so every connected field matches the size its number calls for, in this Inkwell Games logic puzzle.

S

Stars

inkwellgames.com · Math & Logic

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.

M

Mineswifter

mineswifter.com · Math & Logic

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.

Q

QueenSweep

playqueensweep.com · Math & Logic

Locate eight hidden queens, one per row and column and never touching diagonally, using Minesweeper-style numbers that count adjacent queens.

N

NonoDaily

nonodaily.com · Math & Logic

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.

C

Calcle

calclegame.com · Math & Logic

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.

CR

Clue Raider

clueraider.com · Math & Logic

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.

CC

Chess.com Daily Puzzle

chess.com · Math & Logic

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.

LD

Lichess Daily Puzzle

lichess.org · Math & Logic

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.

C

Chessguessr

chessguessr.com · Math & Logic

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.

C

Chessle

jackli.gg · Math & Logic

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.

P

Pokle

poklegame.com · Math & Logic

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.

PU

Pile-Up Poker

Puzzmo · puzzmo.com · Math & Logic

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.

RB

Really Bad Chess

Puzzmo · puzzmo.com · Math & Logic

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.