One run, one combined board

A circuit is a handful of daily puzzles played as one sitting and ranked on your combined placement across all of them, shortest game first. The Daily Five changes every day. The rest are fixed, so you can pick the skill you want to work and come back to it tomorrow.

All 17 circuits

The Daily FivegoldOne game from each of five categories, shortest first, and a different five every day. Today's is up.5 games · Check, Span, Plot, Glyph, Cipher The Crosswords CircuitgoldEvery crossword on the site in one sitting: the mini, one in pieces, and three with no clues at all.5 games · Emcee, Shards, Glyph, Crux, Anon The Word Building CircuitgoldFour sets of letters and four different ways to spend them. Highest score takes each one.4 games · Babel, Tuck, Barter, Lode The Wordplay CircuitsilverFive games that hide a word in plain sight: scrambled, misspelled, buried, one rung at a time, or just out of reach.5 games · Garble, Stet, Strata, Rung, Warmer The Sudoku CircuitgoldEight sudokus in the pool and five on the day's card, easiest grid first. A different mix tomorrow.5 games · Cages, Suds, Quilt, Polka, Mercury The Mental Math CircuitsilverFive rounds of arithmetic against a clock, from one quick target to a full cryptarithm. No calculator.5 games · Blitz, Crunch, Carve, Tally, Cipher The Deduction CircuitsilverFive cases with one answer each. Liars, alibis, and just enough testimony to get there.5 games · Sworn, Hearsay, Suffice, Docket, Alibi The Pencil Puzzles CircuitsilverLoops, pictures and seating plans, drawn out of nothing but the constraints. Five puzzles, back to back.5 games · Etch, Jesters, Hedge, Paths, Fib The Spatial Puzzles CircuitbronzeRoutes, shapes and places, on a board and on the map. Five games, and none of them take long.5 games · Chomp, Span, Parker, Ping, Plot The Sorting CircuitsilverFive games about putting things where they belong: the right group, the right overlap, the right order.5 games · Dating, Links, Axiom, Venn, Stands The Board Games CircuitbronzeFour games, each a position already won, and one move that throws it away. The least forgiving circuit on the site.4 games · Check, Turn, Four, Chain The Chess CircuitbronzeThree games at the chess table: save the king, mate the king, and walk a pawn to its crown. Perfect play punishes everything else.3 games · Defend, Mate, Queen The Table Games CircuitbronzeFive games you would play across a table: two solitaires, a blackjack shoe, and two boards a move away from won.5 games · Chain, Four, Taire, Shoe, Hands The Recall CircuitsilverWhat happened, when it happened, and how much of it you can still name. Nothing multiple choice.5 games · Dating, Extra, Listed, Niche, Redact The Ranking CircuitsilverFive games: three score you against what everybody else said today, two against an answer key. Call the crowd first.5 games · Bracket, Listed, Feud, Outrank, Outwit The Arcade CircuitsilverOne life, a running clock, and a score to chase. Two games that do not let you take it back.2 games · Blocks, Sweep The Gauntlet CircuitbronzeThree games that end the moment you are wrong: one topic in depth, one clock, and forty questions of anything at all.3 games · Deep, Blitz, Streak

Every game is free and needs no account. A game played on its own still counts toward its circuit, but all of them have to land on the same day to take a rank on that circuit’s board.