Wordle
The original: one hidden five-letter word, six guesses, coloured tiles.
Daily games
The full list: 46 games, one line each, every one checked in July 2026.
This is the index behind our roundups: every daily game we verified while writing them, one line each, grouped by what it asks of you. It is a dated snapshot rather than a live feed; the date above is when each link was last loaded and confirmed working, and the page is rebuilt from fresh checks periodically.
For the annotated versions, start with games like Wordle, then go deeper by genre: Wordle variants, games like Connections, games like NYT Games, games like Pips, games like Contexto and Semantle, games like Globle, or the ten opinionated picks in Wordle alternatives.
The Wordle family
Quordle
Four boards, nine shared guesses.
Octordle
Eight boards, thirteen guesses.
Duotrigordle
Thirty-two boards, thirty-seven guesses, global leaderboard.
Waffle
Swap scrambled letters into six intersecting words in fifteen moves.
Nerdle
Guess the hidden eight-character calculation in six tries.
Absurdle
Adversarial Wordle that never commits to an answer until cornered.
Antiwordle
Avoid the hidden word for as many guesses as you can.
Crosswordle
Sort scrambled letters across an intersecting word grid within a swap budget.
Groups, clues and trivia
Connections
Sixteen words, four hidden groups, four mistakes.
Connections: Sports Edition
The official sports spinoff, published on The Athletic.
PuzzGrid
Thousands of community-made Only Connect walls, red herrings included.
Connections Unlimited (unofficial)
Independent remake with endless walls, an archive and a custom-grid builder.
Strands
Themed word search with a board-spanning spangram.
Blossom
Seven petal letters, twelve words, pangram bonuses.
Bracket City
Clues nested in brackets, opening outward to a this-day-in-history sentence.
Minute Cryptic
One cryptic clue a day, golf scoring, video explanation after.
Immaculate Grid
Nine guesses to fill a three-by-three sports trivia grid; rarer answers score better.
Guess by meaning
Semantle
The original semantic guesser: similarity scores out of one hundred.
Contexto
Every guess ranked by closeness in meaning; rank one wins.
Cemantle
Temperature feedback and a progress bar through the thousand nearest words.
Pimantle
Semantle with your guesses plotted on a map of meaning.
Pedantle
Reveal a hidden Wikipedia page until you can name its subject.
Redactle
Guess the subject of a redacted vital Wikipedia article.
Geography
Globle
Countries glow hotter on a globe the closer they lie to the mystery answer.
Worldle
Country silhouette, six guesses, distance and direction feedback.
Travle
Name the countries between a start and an end in as few guesses as possible.
Flagle
A flag revealed panel by panel, six guesses, bonus rounds after.
Countryle
Find the country from its statistics: continent, area, temperature, borders.
Tradle
Guess the country from a treemap of its real exports.
GeoGuessr Daily Challenge
Dropped into a street view; work out where on Earth you are.
Sound and screen
Heardle belongs here, but Spotify bought it in 2022 and closed it in May 2023.
Bandle
One song rebuilt instrument by instrument; each miss adds a player.
Framed
Name the film from up to six stills.
Timeguessr
Pin five real photographs to a place and a year.
Logic and deduction
Pips
Place dominoes so every coloured region satisfies its rule; three boards a day.
Domino Fit
Fit dominoes so every row and column adds to its target; three daily sizes.
Unlimited Pips remakes (unofficial)
Independent rebuilds of the Pips mechanic with no daily cap.
Queens
One crown per row, column and colour region, none touching.
Tango
Balance suns and moons under equality and adjacency rules.
Zip
One continuous path through every cell, waypoints in order.
Mini Sudoku
Six-by-six sudoku sized for a break.
Murdle
A daily whodunit solved on a deduction grid; hardest on Saturday.
Story and fiction
Disclosure: these two are ours. novlr is our site.
Forgery
Spot the author’s real sentence among three AI forgeries, from a public-domain novel.
Escape (or die)
A story-maze with one way out and a hidden rule; every death holds a clue.
Whole suites
Puzzmo
A daily page of puzzles from Zach Gage’s team: crossword, SpellTower, originals.
LinkedIn games
Eight dailies in one place, including Pinpoint, Crossclimb, Patches and Wend.
How this list was made
Every row is a game we loaded and verified while writing the roundups this page indexes, linked at its original home, with the two unofficial remakes labelled as exactly that. Dead games are noted where knowing saves you a search. This page is a snapshot, rebuilt from fresh checks periodically rather than maintained live; the date at the top is the truth of it.