Ask HN: What are your favourite daily puzzle games?
cookie_monsta Tuesday, April 29, 2025I got hooked on daily puzzle games like a lot of people, with Wordle and since then have been collecting them here and there. Most of my faves have been posted here by creators or fans, others I don't remember how I found them. Anyway, it's been a while since we've had a dedicated thread for people to share their favourites, but there are new ones coming out all the time, so I'm curious to know if there are any good ones I'm missing out on. I guess my only real criteria are that they are browser-based, mobile friendly, free to play and somewhat original. Below are the ones I regularly play:
From the NYT: Wordle, connections and the mini
https://wordchase.semantle.com guess the word guided by AI hints
https://travle.earth/ get from one country to another by passing through bordering countries
https://wafflegame.net/ drag and drop letters to make a "waffle" of words
https://imsqueezy.com/ insert letters to make other words, to form 3 words connected by a theme
https://truncate.town/ kind of an adversarial scrabble, PvP or against the computer
https://ziggurwords.com/ unscramble letters to find increasingly longer words
https://crosswordle.com/ a crossword/wordle hybrid
https://www.threemagicwords.app/ more word unscrambling
https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/ hard to explain - uncover a famous event in history by unwrapping nested clues?
https://www.omiword.com/ drag tiles within sectors to spell 4 common words
Am I missing any good ones?