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Daily Puzzle Games Beyond Wordle
Once Wordle is done, these daily games offer another challenge. Connections and PuzzGrid sort words into hidden groups, Pinpoint asks for the category behind clue words, Bracket City nests clues inside brackets and Puzzmo gathers several games in one place
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Connections
Sort 16 words into four hidden groups that share a common thread, with one new puzzle a day from The New York Times
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Wordiply
The Guardian's daily game: five goes to make the longest word that contains the starter word
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Pinpoint
Guess the category from a few clue words that appear one by one, part of LinkedIn Games
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Crossclimb
A word ladder with trivia clues: unlock the ladder and complete the hidden clues, part of LinkedIn Games
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Bracket City
Solve nested bracketed clues to reveal a fact about this day in history, now published by The Atlantic
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Puzzmo
A daily puzzle hub with crosswords, Memoku, SpellTower and Really Bad Chess, plus a shared recap called Yesterday's News
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PuzzGrid
User-made grids in the style of Only Connect: like Connections, but with more red herrings
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4 x 3
Form four categories of three words, with one hub word belonging to every group, plus an optional single-chance hub call
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Acrobeat
Reproduce a sound interval with taps or a held press, climbing through increasingly strict timing challenges
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alikely
Pick every emoji that belongs to a secret group among sixteen tiles, with three lives and weekday difficulty changes
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At What Point?
Estimate where other players land on five everyday questions, then give your own answers and compare them with the crowd
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Bells
Listen to the day's bells and reproduce the longest sequence you can, with a shared daily leaderboard
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Categlorious
Sort nine words into four groups of three, with a single connector appearing in every group
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ClueCrush
Find four related groups among 16 words, with daily puzzles, an archive, community creation tools and multiplayer races
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Daily Audit
Complete a shared daily sequence of number, pattern, memory and other challenges in one minute, before any signup
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Daily Grapple
A grappling speedrun gives everyone the same generated course each day, with platforms, hazards and a finish to reach
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Daily Herd
Respond to five daily prompts with the answer you think will be most popular
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Daily Orbs
Collect orbs by answering four daily challenges covering words, geography, science and trivia
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DAILYJIG
Rebuild a picture, match pairs of cards or locate hidden capybaras in a collection of daily browser puzzles
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Football Connections
Sort 16 players into groups of four connected by clubs, countries, awards or other career details
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Glide
Watch five rounds of movement, then try to reproduce them in a shared daily memory challenge
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Lingo
Select groups of four words to rebuild famous phrases, using color feedback across nine guesses
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linqed
Solve four multiple-choice questions and work out the hidden link shared by their answers in a daily trivia puzzle
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Looplink
Form four groups of four from twelve tiles, reusing shared words to connect neighboring categories
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Majority the Game
Predict the most popular replies to five daily prompts, or create a five-question link for friends to answer at their own pace
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Meldle
Group twelve fragments into three sets, each finished by inserting one shared pair of letters
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MetaFour
Decode eight clues and select the four answers that fit the displayed category
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Mini Mahj
Play a daily American Mahjong challenge with the same tiles, wall and opponents as everyone else, using the 2026 NMJL card
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Quiple
Find related sets among a board of answer tiles, using the daily category and staying within four incorrect attempts
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Sports Connections Unlimited
Find hidden links among sixteen sports terms, with four mistakes allowed, difficulty choices and a dated archive
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Temvo
Estimate durations, stop at a target time and reproduce rhythms in a daily five-round run, with practice and live rooms
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The Little Daily
Solve a missing word, a word ladder, a numeric code, a letter-building puzzle and a logic mystery in one free daily edition
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The Loop
Arrange a ring of images so every neighboring connection makes sense, with five attempts to solve it
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The Split
Answer a yes-or-no question, then estimate the percentage of players who will say yes before the daily results are revealed
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TierDrop
Sort a themed list into tiers from S to F, then view other people's rankings, discuss choices or rank with a group
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Tiltanic
Guide a boat along a shared daily course by tilting your phone or moving a mouse
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Timed
Hold a button for five requested durations and release when you think each interval is over, with one attempt per interval
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TypeCircuit
Complete three daily quotations as quickly and accurately as you can, with speed and typo tracking
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Vennections
Identify a single word that belongs to three overlapping categories in a daily puzzle
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Wonderhop
Choose familiar or unusual survey answers in four daily games, with 30 to 40 seconds per question
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ahamora
Read a prompt, think of the answer and flip each card to reveal a new fact
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AuPiScan
Sweep the terrain, follow the rising beep and dig where the detector signals treasure
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Ballast
Use a balance scale to compare crates, then order them from lightest to heaviest
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Basketball 5
Pick from several daily basketball and NBA games, including Top 10, Bingo, Classic, Grid and Wordle
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Bearing
Follow short routes, then estimate where they started, which way home lies, where you ended up or which route is shorter
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Beside the Point
Answer three clue rounds with defendable ideas, then find a final connection between your answers
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Blind Boxdle
Use figure names and comparison clues to guess the daily Smiski collectible
Compare at a glance
A quick comparison of 20 games from this list: what changes, daily puzzles, unlimited play and multiplayer
| Game | What is different | Daily | Unlimited | Multiplayer | Price |
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| Connections | Sort 16 words into four groups | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free, paid extras |
| Wordiply | The longest word around a starter word | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| Pinpoint | Guess the category from clue words | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| Crossclimb | A word ladder with trivia clues | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| Bracket City | Nested clues about this day in history | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free with ads |
| Puzzmo | A daily hub of puzzles | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free with ads |
| PuzzGrid | Only Connect style grids made by players | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| 4 x 3 | Four groups share the same central word | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| Acrobeat | Match the silent gap between two beeps | Yes | Yes | Not listed | Free with ads |
| alikely | Find the emoji that share a hidden link | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| At What Point? | Predict the crowd before giving your own answer | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free to try |
| Bells | Remember and repeat a growing bell sequence | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free with ads |
| Categlorious | One shared word belongs in four groups | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free, paid extras |
| ClueCrush | Sort words into four hidden connections | Yes | Yes | Yes | Free, paid extras |
| Daily Audit | Nine timed puzzles in a daily 60-second assessment | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| Daily Grapple | Swing through a shared daily obstacle course | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free to try |
| Daily Herd | Predict the answer most people would give | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| Daily Orbs | Four daily puzzles across changing subjects | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| DAILYJIG | A daily jigsaw, memory board and capybara puzzle | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| Football Connections | Find four hidden groups of footballers | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
A closer look
Several big publishers run their own: The Guardian has Wordiply, LinkedIn has Pinpoint and Crossclimb, and The Atlantic now publishes Bracket City. Puzzmo gathers crosswords, Memoku, SpellTower and Really Bad Chess in one daily hub
Questions people ask
What games are like Connections?
PuzzGrid has user-made grids in the style of Only Connect, like Connections but with more red herrings. Pinpoint asks you to guess a category from clue words that appear one by one
What is Bracket City?
Bracket City is a daily puzzle published by The Atlantic. Solve the clues inside brackets to uncover the larger sentence around them
Which of these daily puzzles are free?
Wordiply, Pinpoint, Crossclimb and PuzzGrid are free. Puzzmo and Bracket City show ads, and Connections gives today's puzzle for free and keeps the archive for subscribers
Top Picks
Eight games to try, from word puzzles to geography, trivia, tactical battles and empire strategy
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Worduel Top Pick
A Wordle duel: you and a rival take turns on one shared board, 45 seconds a move, in ranked games or a friend room
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WorDungeon Top Pick
An endless Wordle dungeon crawl with 200 distinct bosses, words in 13 languages and relics after each win, until your lives run out
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Transwordle Top Pick
Wordle where the word runs away: after every miss the hidden word is swapped for a new one and your earlier rows are recolored
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Wordle Blast Top Pick
Wordle in a Tetris-style stack: clue blocks open from the bottom up, and the sooner you guess, the more blocks blow up into points
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Planet Pop Top Pick
Name countries on a toy globe, where rarer right answers score more. You have 3 lives and pick 1 of 3 power-ups after every right answer
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Truth Train Top Pick
Read a fact, choose True or False in 30 seconds, then pick perks to keep your train rolling. Chase distance through 500 facts across 10 topics
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Your Empire Top Pick
Rule an invented empire on a map of real cities. Choose how to handle wars, revolts and discoveries, from your ruler's youth to a final chronicle