Games
Daily puzzles and browser games worth a lunch break.
28 listed, ranked by your votes. Every one was opened and checked by hand before it went up.
Shortlist
- 01
DragonsweeperMinesweeper reworked as a dungeon crawl where you read monsters instead of guessing.
Game|danielben.itch.io ↗
- 02
Minute CrypticOne cryptic crossword clue a day, with a walkthrough that teaches the tricks.
Word game|minutecryptic.com ↗
- 03
Enclose HorseFence in the horse on a small grid to trap the largest meadow.
Daily puzzle|enclose.horse ↗
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TravleRoute from one country to another by naming the countries in between.
Daily puzzle|travle.earth ↗
- 06
BetweenleFind the secret word by narrowing an alphabetical range with each guess.
Word game|betweenle.com ↗
- 07
FramedName the film from a single frame, with more frames revealed per miss.
Daily puzzle|framed.wtf ↗
- 08
putt.dayOne mini golf hole a day. Sink it in as few strokes as you can, then race friends in party mode.
Daily puzzle|putt.day ↗
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SandspielA falling-sand physics toy in Rust and WebGL; paint elements and watch them react.
Game|sandspiel.club ↗
- 10
Slow RoadsEndless procedurally generated driving with weather, seasons and no goal.
Game|slowroads.io ↗
Poople18 more in the archive.
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- putt.dayOne mini golf hole a day. Sink it in as few strokes as you can, then race friends in party mode.
EmberA forest fire, a wind, rain on the way. Dig four firebreaks so no house burns.- Enclose HorseFence in the horse on a small grid to trap the largest meadow.
- PoopleChange one letter at a time to turn today's word into POOP.
- TravleRoute from one country to another by naming the countries in between.
Archive
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Daily puzzle 6
EmberMade hereA forest fire, a wind, rain on the way. Dig four firebreaks so no house burns.
TimeGuessrPin where and when five historical photos were taken.
Cine2NerdleSort sixteen movie tiles into four connected rows, then battle friends by linking films.
WorldleGuess the country from its silhouette, with distance and direction hints.
BandleGuess the day's song as instruments are added one at a time.
GlobleName countries and watch a globe heat up as you close in on the answer.
Game 6
Simon Tatham's PuzzlesForty classic logic puzzles, including nonograms, playable in the browser with no fuss.
TETR.IOFast, free online stacker with solo modes and ranked multiplayer.
Universal PaperclipsAn incremental game where you are the AI and the paperclips never stop.
A Dark RoomA minimalist text game that starts with a fire and keeps expanding.
Neal.funNeal Agarwal's toybox: The Password Game, Infinite Craft, Absurd Trolley Problems and more.
TownscaperClick to grow tiny island towns; no goal, just pleasing architecture. Desktop only.
Word game 6
ConnectionsGroup sixteen words into four hidden categories with four mistakes allowed.
RedactleGuess words to unredact a Wikipedia article and work out its subject.
SemantleGuess the secret word by meaning; word2vec scores tell you how close you are.
SquaredleConnect letters in any direction to find every word hidden in the grid.
WaffleSwap letters on a waffle grid to fix six words in fifteen moves or fewer.
WordleThe five-letter daily that started the whole genre.
The one ad. It keeps the lights on.