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Free Daily Word Games: Puzzles, Ladders, Scrambles and Crosswords

Sixteen word games, one new puzzle in each every day. Ladders, scrambles, a hotter-or-colder word hunt, a copy-desk puzzle where you fix the sentence, tile games with a proven best score, and six crosswords. All free, no signup, and each has its own leaderboard.

Play today's Garble Run the Word games circuit
16games
1new board a day, each
0signups needed

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Word scrambleGarble Untangle five wordsUntangle five scrambled words, then the clued finale, in as few misses as you can manage.Word ladderRung One letter at a timeClimb from one five-letter word to another, changing a single letter a rung, in as few rungs as you can.Hidden groupsLinks Four hidden groupsSort sixteen words into the four hidden groups that connect them, with four mistakes to spare.Hotter or colderWarmer Hotter or colderEvery guess is scored by meaning, cold to hot, until you land on the secret word.Copy-editing puzzleStet Spot the error, fix the copyEach sentence may hide one wrong word, so tap it and fix it, or stamp clean copy stet.Word excavationStrata Dig the words outEvery letter belongs to a buried word, and lifting one out drops everything above it, which is how the next one becomes readable.Make words from seven lettersLode Seven letters, rare words payBuild words from seven letters around the core letter, and the rarer the word the bigger the pay.Letter tradeBarter Trade the letters homeEvery letter the answer needs is already on the board, scrambled. Trade two tiles at a time until all six words read true, on a budget of the proven minimum plus five.Tile scoringTuck Same letters, highest score winsEveryone plays the same fourteen letters, and the highest scoring board wins the day.Tile endgameBabel The bag is emptyNothing left to draw, so their rack is knowable. Play the last tiles for the best spread you can force.Mini crosswordEmcee The daily mini crosswordFill a five by five crossword from fair clues, and the timer stops when the grid is right.Daily crosswordEncore The daily crosswordFill the nine by nine crossword from fair clues, with every square crossed by an answer in both directions. The timer stops when the grid is right, and Sundays run eleven by eleven.Clueless crosswordCrux A clueless crosswordEight words interlock in an empty grid, and four category hints are the only clues you get.CodewordGlyph A crossword with no cluesEvery letter is a number and the same number is always the same letter, so two given letters and the crossings have to carry you to all 26.Jigsaw crosswordShards Reassemble the crosswordThe solved grid was shattered into lettered pieces, so put them back until every word reads true.AcrosticAnon A clueless acrosticAn unsigned passage and a bank of answers that share its letters, and the answers' first letters spell whoever wrote it.

What kind of word game do you want?

Some of these are about finding words: Lode gives you seven letters and pays more for rarer finds, Garble hands you five scrambles, Rung asks you to walk one word to another a letter at a time. Some are about meaning: Warmer scores every guess by how close it is to a secret word, Links asks you to sort sixteen words into four hidden groups, Stet hides one wrong word in a sentence.

The tile games are the deepest. Tuck deals everyone the same fourteen letters and ranks the highest-scoring board; Babel is an endgame where the bag is empty and the best line is knowable; Barter trades two letters at a time toward six hidden words on a budget of the proven minimum plus five.

Where to start

Garble or Rung if you want something quick. Links if you like sorting. Warmer if you like a slow hunt. The crosswords have a page of their own.

The week

Monday to SaturdayEach game ramps through the week: rarer words, longer ladders, tighter groups.
Sunday EditionGarble goes to six-letter words, Tuck to a fifteen-letter rack, Links to four cross-category traps, Warmer to a rarer secret.

Questions

Which word list do the games use?

The tile games and Shards check against a Scrabble list, which is broader than everyday English; the answer games use common words only.

Are they free?

All of them, every day, with no account required.