Free daily word games

Sort 16 words into four secret groups. Watch out for red herrings.

Guess the hidden five-letter word in six tries. The one that started it all.

Find themed words hidden in a letter grid, plus the "spangram" that spans the board.

A bite-sized 5x5 crossword you can usually finish in under a minute.

Make as many words as you can from seven letters, always using the center one.

Solve four Wordles at once in nine guesses.

Swap letters to fix six words woven into a waffle grid, in 15 swaps or fewer.

Solve nested clues to reveal a fun fact about this day in history.

Find the secret word. Each guess is ranked by how close its meaning is.

A daily bundle of original puzzles, including Typeshift, Spelltower and crosswords.

Guess the word by meaning. Each guess gets a hot/cold similarity score.

Answer trivia clues, then arrange the answers into a word ladder.

Find every word hidden in a square of letters by connecting neighbors.

One cryptic crossword clue a day. A gentle way into cryptics.

Guess the category from as few clue words as possible.

Link words using the letters around a square, in as few words as you can.

Eight Wordles at once in 13 guesses. Only for the brave.

Wordle for phrases. Guess the everyday saying in six tries.

A phrase-fitting puzzle. Place letters so the hidden phrase reads correctly.

Two Wordles side by side, seven guesses.

Reveal a redacted Wikipedia article one word at a time until you can name it.

A crossword-meets-Wordle logic puzzle. Work out the guesses that produced the color pattern.

Group 16 words into four connected sets. Free, Connections-style, in several languages.

Name the movie from an emoji string.

Get from the start word to the end word by changing one letter at a time.

Make the longest word that contains the day's letter combination.

Use the clue to find a pair of rhyming words that make a silly phrase.

Find the hidden keyword whose letters complete a stack of words, one letter per row.

Make exactly 12 words from seven petal letters; longer words, bonus letters and pangrams score more.

Unscramble the jumbled words back together in as few moves as possible.

Solve 32 Wordles at once with only 37 guesses.

Find the secret word by narrowing it down alphabetically between your guesses.

Transform one word into another through a ladder of clued steps.

Guess the daily word by meaning, with every guess plotted by semantic closeness.

Uncover a hidden Wikipedia article by guessing the words that appear in it.

Build a chain of compound words where each word links to the next.

Use 14 letters to build a word pyramid, one row longer each step.

Six brutal daily word games (Matchsticks, Gridlock, Interlock, PinPad, Down You Go, Wordnado) where one mistake ends it.

The nation’s oldest newspaper crossword, free every day.

A short, straight-clued British crossword published every day except Sunday.

A free standard crossword with a new grid every day.

Complete each category by entering words that build on the one before.

Guess the Wikipedia article from nothing but its list of categories.

Guess the song as its lyrics are revealed line by line.

A music crossword where the clues are song clips.

A Wordle for food words, with a recipe for each answer.

The Portuguese Wordle, with Dueto and Quarteto multi-board modes.

The Spanish Wordle: guess the word of the day in six tries.

French daily word game (6 to 10 letters) inspired by the TV show Motus.

Wordle in French: find the five-letter word of the day.

The Dutch Wordle: six tries to guess the word of the day.

Wordle in Italian, one word a day.

French Semantle: find the secret word by getting semantically closer.

Count each cribbage hand. Every total maps to a letter, and the letters spell the day’s word.