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Daily word games
Word games are where the daily puzzle habit started. Wordle turned one five-letter guess a day into a worldwide ritual, and plenty of games have built on the idea since: Quordle and Octordle make you solve several words at once, Waffle has you swap letters until a whole grid is right, and Connections asks you to sort sixteen words into four hidden groups.
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Wordle
Find the hidden five-letter word in six tries.
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Connections
Sort sixteen words into four hidden groups of four.
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Strands
Find the themed words hidden in a grid of letters.
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Spelling Bee
Make as many words as you can from seven letters.
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Quordle
Solve four five-letter words at once.
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Letter Boxed Subscription
Use all twelve letters around a square in as few words as possible.
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Crossclimb
Solve five clues, then order the words into a ladder.
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Wend
A word search where you connect letters to find words that fit together.
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Waffle
Swap letters around a waffle-shaped grid until all six words are right.
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Octordle
Eight five-letter words at once, and every guess counts on all eight boards.
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Contexto
Guess the secret word. Each guess shows how close it is in meaning.
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Semantle
Find the secret word by meaning. Every guess gets a closeness score.
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Squaredle
Swipe through a grid of letters to find every hidden word.
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Bracket City
Solve clues nested inside clues to uncover a sentence about history.
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Blossom
Build the highest-scoring words you can from seven petals of letters.
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Letroso
Guess a secret word of up to ten letters, with as many tries as you need.
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Raddle
Climb a word ladder from one themed word to another, one clue at a time.
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Weaver
Climb a word ladder from one word to another, one letter at a time.
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Keyword
Find the six missing letters that complete six words and spell one keyword.
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Smartle
Rearrange the letters on a 5×5 grid until every row is a real word.
Others play with meaning rather than spelling. Contexto and Semantle score each guess by how close it is in meaning to the secret word, while Spelling Bee, Blossom and Squaredle ask how many words you can find in a handful of letters. Most of these are free every day; the few that keep the full game for subscribers are clearly marked. Weaver and Keyword are quick extras: one builds a ladder from word to word, the other hides a six-letter word in the gaps of six others, and Smartle asks you to tidy a jumbled grid into five neat words.
Also see: All NYT games · All LinkedIn games