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Game names such as Wordle, Connections, Strands or Queens are trademarks of their owners, and the games themselves belong to their creators. PlayItDaily is independent and not affiliated with them. Our cover art is our own design. It never uses the games’ logos or screenshots. Emoji are from Google’s Noto Emoji (Apache License 2.0). Result cards that players create and share belong to those players.

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Examples

Infographic timeline of daily games: 1913 Word-Cross, 1924 first crossword book, 1942 NYT crossword, 1950 daily NYT crossword, 1954 Jumble, 1979 Number Place, 1984 Nikoli names sudoku, 2004 The Times runs sudoku, 2014 NYT Mini, 2018 digital Spelling Bee, 2021 Wordle, 2022 NYT buys Wordle, 2023 Connections, 2024 Strands and LinkedIn games, 2025 Zip — Timeline of daily games from the 1913 Word-Cross to LinkedIn’s Zip. Sources are listed in the article. Infographic by PlayItDaily, free to share with a link.

Wordle cover art by PlayItDaily: the Wordle emoji on a background of letter tiles, labelled “daily word game” — Wordle, a free daily word game. Original illustration by PlayItDaily; not affiliated with The New York Times.

Daily geography games: PlayItDaily illustration with map contour lines and the emoji of 21 games — Daily geography games: 21 free games with a new puzzle every day. Illustration by PlayItDaily.

Bar chart: Connections successful completions grew from 2.3 billion in 2023 to 3.3 billion in 2024; Wordle plays grew from 4.8 billion to 5.3 billion — Connections successful completions vs Wordle plays (billions). Sources: Axios (2023), NYT figures via Wikipedia and TODAY (2024). Chart by PlayItDaily.