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Daily puzzle games
Browser and mobile games with a new puzzle each day.
22 projects100% active68% build on a shared standardMapped 2026-10-25
What they agree on
- Is it actively maintained? active (95% of 22)
- How is the main thing licensed? proprietary or closed source (86% of 22)
- Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? no, it needs the maker's servers (86% of 22)
- Who is it for? non-developers (100% of 22)
- How do players share a result? copyable result text (emoji grid or score line, maybe with a link) (78% of 18)
- Which languages is it offered in? English only (71% of 21)
What they argue about
How is it mainly sustained?
Do you need an account to use it?
Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on?
Does everyone get the same puzzle each day?
How does it make money? Pick the first that applies.
Can players rank against other players?
Where can you play it?
Projects
| Project | Status | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Common Ground | Active | Connections-style daily: sort 16 words into 4 groups, with no US-only categories ("culture neutral"). |
| CowBull | Active | Bulls-and-cows word game: guess a 4-letter word and get only counts of exact and partial matches. Solo and multiplayer rooms, no account. |
| Daily Pipes | Active | Daily tile-rotation pipes puzzle that never needs guessing; difficulty ramps Monday to Sunday. |
| Dozenal | Active | Daily spatial math puzzle: combine grid tiles to make 12. |
| Framed | Active | Guess the film from six frames, one more revealed per wrong guess. Several daily modes (classic, one frame, titleshot, poster) and an archi… |
| Hence | Active | Picture-clue logic grid puzzle (zebra/Einstein style); a 4x4 and a 6x6 each day. |
| Jigsaw Haiku | Active | Relaxing daily puzzle: reassemble a haiku over a painting revealed through fog. Companion to the maker's harder site, The Daily Baffle. |
| Kodiak Sudoku | Active | Keyboard-first sudoku with a shared daily puzzle, global leaderboard, technique lessons and an optional Plus subscription. |
| Minecraftle | Active | Open-source (AGPL) daily Wordle-style game about Minecraft crafting recipes. Started as a 2022 university project; Next.js + Postgres, self… |
| Niral | Active | Daily Tamil word-scramble: rearrange shuffled words to rebuild lines from famous Tamil film songs, in Tamil script or Tanglish. |
| NYT Games (Wordle, Connections) | Active | The New York Times games bundle. Wordle (bought 2022) set the genre: one shared five-letter word per day and an emoji-grid share. Answered… |
| Parithmetic | Active | Daily numbers game: combine six tiles to hit a target, scored like golf (par, birdie). |
| PZL Games | Active | A site of original daily word and logic games (9 Words, Zanagrams, Middle Word, Headlines, Sunflowers, Crowdle and more) from a small team. |
| Sumday | Active | Make a true equation from today's date, using every digit in order. Any valid equation counts. |
| The Cartographer's Lie | Active | Daily hex-map deduction: one hex on the chart is drawn wrong, and every clue is true. Web, iOS and Android, with ratings, a career ladder a… |
| The Daily Set | Active | Daily Set card puzzle (find six sets in twelve cards), rebuilt after setgame.com's daily stopped working. Leaderboards, achievements, ELO r… |
| Trail | Active | One-line logic puzzle: draw one unbroken line through every tile. A daily board plus a million generated levels; plays offline on iPhone. |
| Wick | Active | Semantic word game: guess the secret word by meaning (embedding similarity) or ask the AI "Keeper" yes/no questions. Web, iOS, and live rac… |
| Wirespan | Active | Daily power-line routing puzzle (close to a Steiner-tree problem) on a 9x9 map, built by a parent for his son. Strong accessibility focus. |
| Wordminos | Active | Crosswords meet dominoes: fit colored letter pieces so every row and column spells a word. Daily and Mini each day plus puzzle packs; by Sp… |
| Worldle | Active | Guess the country from its silhouette, with distance and direction clues. Created by Antoine Teuf in 2022; now run by Teuteuf Games, which… |
| Yotsu | Active | iPhone app with four logic puzzles a day (Shikaku, Akari, Binairo, Sudoku). No ads, no tracking, no account. |
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The poll
Every project above was answered against these questions. Core questions are shared by all communities; the rest are this community's own.
- Is it actively maintained? core
active · active, but changed direction (pivot, fork, or rename) · maintenance or slowing · dormant, sunsetting, or archived - How is the main thing licensed? core
permissive open source (MIT/Apache/BSD) · copyleft or source-available with restrictions · open parts around a closed core · proprietary or closed source - How is it mainly sustained? core
individual side project, no revenue · individual with revenue (paid app, tier, ads, or donations) · community, foundation, or research · company with a paid product, tier, or ads · company or startup with a free product (no revenue yet) · big company side project - Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? core
yes · yes, but it calls a third-party service you choose (your own API key or account) · partly (some features need the maker's servers) · no, it needs the maker's servers · not applicable - Do you need an account to use it? core
no account · optional account · account required - Who is it for? core
developers · non-developers · both - Is there public evidence it's built with AI coding agents? core
yes, the repo shows it (agent instruction files or agent co-authored commits) · yes, the maker says so · no public evidence - Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? core
Wordle's format (guess a hidden answer in a few tries, with feedback each guess) · Connections' format (sort items into groups) · a classic logic puzzle (sudoku, logic grid, Nikoli-style) · a classic number, word or card game (Countdown, jumble, bulls and cows, Set) · none of these (its own format or interface) · not applicable - Does everyone get the same puzzle each day? value
yes, one shared daily puzzle (or set) and nothing more · yes, a shared daily puzzle plus extra or unlimited play · no, puzzles are personal, random, or level-based - How does it make money? Pick the first that applies. value
sells paid extras (subscription, one-time or in-app purchase) · shows ads · donations or merch · none: free, no ads, nothing to buy - How do players share a result? approach
copyable result text (emoji grid or score line, maybe with a link) · an image, replay, or challenge link instead of a result · no result sharing - Can players rank against other players? approach
yes, a leaderboard or rating · no, personal stats or streaks only · no stats at all - Where can you play it? approach
web only · web plus a native app · native app only - Which languages is it offered in? approach
English only · several languages · mainly a language other than English
Sources
Show HN posts 2026-07-27 to 2026-10-25 in the daily puzzle kind, plus well-known reference games.
54 sources across 22 projects, read on 2026-10-25. Each project page lists its own. Poll version: core-v4.