A starter lineup of daily games
17 picks
A starter lineup of free daily web games: one or two picks for words, maps, trivia, logic, music, movies, sports and estimates, plus how to build your own.
Guides to daily games
The shelves and lists on this site cover every free daily web game in the index. The guides here are shorter and take a view: each one chooses a handful of games for a reason, says what each choice asks of you, and leaves the full catalog to the shelves.
Picks are never ranked. They are grouped by what a game is good for, such as a word puzzle about meaning rather than spelling or a sports game built around one league, and every one comes with a line on how it differs from its neighbors. Every game in a guide meets the same rules as every game listed here: it is free, it plays in a web browser and it needs no account for its daily puzzle. Links are checked every night.
The streak guide works differently. It explains why daily streaks break, from reset times to new phones and cleared browsers, and says nothing about a game that its own site or help pages do not say. New guides are added to this page as they are written.
4 guides
Daily word games by what they do well
14 picks
Free daily word games sorted by what each does well: five-letter classics, several boards at once, meaning and association, letter grids and one-clue solves.
Daily sports games, league by league
17 picks
Free daily sports games for fans: player guessers and grids for the NFL, NBA, MLB, soccer, hockey, F1 and golf, with what each one asks and where to find more.
How to keep a daily game streak
How-to
Why daily game streaks break and how to keep them: your midnight or a fixed reset, new phones, cleared browsers, synced accounts and the NYT's rules for Wordle.