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 word games, page 2
Page 2 of 14: 40 games, from Squareword to CraftWord. The shelf’s first page starts with the games to try first.
Every words game
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nibble.games · Words
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.
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Truncate
truncate.town · Words
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.
Unolingo
USA Today · games.usatoday.com · Words
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.
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Vox Daily Crossword
vox.com · Words
Free crossword grids from Vox, overseen by editor Sarah Schweppe, appear Monday through Saturday and come in printable form too.
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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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Gisnep
gisnep.com · Words
Rebuild a hidden quotation by placing the letters stacked above each column into the right squares, with words allowed to wrap across lines.
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7 Little Words
7littlewords.com · Words
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.
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Jumble Daily
fun.chicagotribune.com · Words
Unscramble several short words, then use their circled letters to crack the pun that captions a cartoon, in the newspaper puzzle running since 1954.
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Daily Acrostic
Sporcle · sporcle.com · Words
Solve a list of crossword-style clues and transfer each numbered letter into the grid above, gradually spelling out a trivia fact.
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Shuffalo
The New Yorker · newyorker.com · Words
Anagram a handful of letters into a word, then take on one more letter and do it again, building longer words with each round.
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Blossom
Merriam-Webster · merriam-webster.com · Words
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.
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Antiwordle
antiwordle.com · Words
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.
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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.
Cryptic Crossword
The Guardian · theguardian.com · Words
The Guardian's weekday cryptic, with wordplay-and-definition clues from its rotating team of setters and a comment thread for every puzzle.
Spellcheck
TED · ted.com · Words
TED's spelling game, built by Paolo Pasco from an Answer in Progress idea, serves up a new batch of words to spell correctly.
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Boggdle
simenmh.com · Words
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.
Xordle
xordle.org · Words
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.
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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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Adoptle
tryhardguides.com · Words
Six guesses to find a hidden word, where names count as valid entries and a guess may run shorter than the answer; tiles mark letters as placed, misplaced or absent.
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Alphalock
alphalockgame.net · Words
Crack a hidden four-letter word within ten rows, reading the feedback on each entry to narrow down the letters that unlock it.
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Beat Me At Boggle
beatmeatboggle.com · Words
Trace words through the day's Boggle letter grid with one aim: finish ahead of the score a resident rival already set on the very same board.
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Blockle
blockle.au · Words
Drop six letter pieces, already in the right orientation, into a 5x5 grid so that each row reads as a word, with the five answers tied by a hidden theme.
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Boston Globe - Align
bostonglobe.com · Words
Unscramble a 5x5 or 7x7 letter grid by swapping tiles until all its words read correctly, chasing a quick time, few swaps or both.
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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
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.
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Cascadle
cascadle.xyz · Words
Five linked words, starting at three letters and ending at seven; solving each gives a hint toward the next, and every guess is colored green, yellow or gray.
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Categories
categories.clevergoat.com · Words
Spot the links in a sixteen-word grid and lock in four related groups before your lives run out, with puzzle packs and an archive besides.
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cemantle
cemantle.certitudes.org · Words
Hunt for a secret word by meaning rather than spelling: each guess gets a temperature, and close words show their rank among the nearest thousand.
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Chainle
chainle.io · Words
Type one word to fill the gap between clue words, scored on its closeness in meaning to all of them at once, over five rounds with 5,000 points at stake.
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Chiddle
chiddle.net · Words
Pick out five high-scoring words from a 4x4 grid of Scrabble-valued letters, Boggle style, trying to get as near as possible to the top total.
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CHN LNK
thechnlnk.com · Words
Reveal a chain of linked words one letter at a time, hangman style, with vowels locked until every consonant is found and lives lost on misses.
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ClickWord
clickword.org · Words
Place letter tiles on a board to form words of three or more letters across or down, then claim them for points or keep building them longer first.
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Cluewords
wordnerd.co · Words
Work through a stack of short crossword clues and type in each answer, filling out a set of hidden words.
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Combinations
combinations.org · Words
Join letter chunks such as TO, GET and HER into full words, aiming for the highest score from the day's set of fragments.
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Compound Your Joy
onelook.com · Words
Order a set of words so every neighboring pair forms a compound term, building one unbroken chain, with definition, proverb and emoji variants.
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Concludle
tryhardguides.com · Words
Identify the day's answer, such as a book, from up to six clues revealed one by one, skipping ahead when stuck and scoring better with fewer.
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Connections Game
connectionsgame.org · Words
Sixteen words, four hidden groups and four mistakes to spare, with easy and hard puzzles and an archive alongside the main one.
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Couples
couples.game · Words
Complete a chain of everyday two-word phrases from given first and last words, where each missing word ends one phrase and starts the next, in three tries.
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CraftWord
craftword.game · Words
Morph a given word, move by move, into a target word over three rounds, where looking ahead and knowing plenty of words keeps the move count low.
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