Ask HN: What are your favourite daily puzzle games?
12 points by cookie_monsta 2 months ago | 16 commentsFrom the NYT: Wordle, connections and the mini
https://wordchase.semantle.com guess the word guided by AI hints
https://travle.earth/ get from one country to another by passing through bordering countries
https://wafflegame.net/ drag and drop letters to make a "waffle" of words
https://imsqueezy.com/ insert letters to make other words, to form 3 words connected by a theme
https://truncate.town/ kind of an adversarial scrabble, PvP or against the computer
https://ziggurwords.com/ unscramble letters to find increasingly longer words
https://crosswordle.com/ a crossword/wordle hybrid
https://www.threemagicwords.app/ more word unscrambling
https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/ hard to explain - uncover a famous event in history by unwrapping nested clues?
https://www.omiword.com/ drag tiles within sectors to spell 4 common words
Am I missing any good ones?
- JoshTriplett 2 months agoI enjoy good puzzle games, but I really dislike the trend towards "daily" games. Whenever I find one, I look for whatever option they have for randomly generated "practice" games (ignoring the "daily" puzzle), and if they don't have one, abandon the game entirely. I can understand that people enjoy comparing their results on a particular game, but to me, that's much less interesting than being able to actually play the game for more than five minutes.
The latest small browser-based puzzle game I've enjoyed: https://danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper
- cookie_monsta 2 months agoFair enough. I would guess that daily games prevent me from bingeing and getting bored. The exception would be https://truncate.town/ - something about that game really clicks with me and I often play a "regular" (non-daily) game against the computer when I have a spare few minutes
- cookie_monsta 2 months ago
- enhdless 2 months agoSomeone posted a daily logic puzzle in the "What are you working on?" thread yesterday, titled Clues by Sam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43821457
I enjoyed it! Not too difficult but still required some thinking.
- cookie_monsta 2 months agoYeah, that's a good one thanks
- cookie_monsta 2 months ago
- zippyman55 2 months agoLichess.org has great chess puzzzles. I like that you get a puzzle rating and have metric to track cognitive decline.
- mtmail 2 months agohttps://worldle.teuteuf.fr/ - guess the country
https://timeguessr.com/ - guess a photo's year and location
- anenefan 2 months agoSo not daily but maybe three days or so if I need to put the mind into neutral I do something repetitive [1] there are other puzzles at the site as well that are bit more challenging eg [2]
- savorypiano 2 months agohttps://wordcrux.com
This is a mini crossword played semi-Wordle style. You get a one word hint, and guess the words. Three wrong guesses on any square and the game is over.
- LarryMade2 2 months agoHow about wordle x 8 - Octordle - https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/?mode=daily
- ecesena 2 months agoI played bonza for a few years https://www.bonzapuzzles.com
- cookie_monsta 2 months agoLooks nice but definitely in the "Why is this an app and not a webpage?" category for me
- cookie_monsta 2 months ago
- austin-cheney 2 months agoWorldle. https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
- Jeremy1026 2 months agoI like NYT Strands. It's a word search where you're given a theme, but not the specific words you need to find.
- luhego 2 months agoTango from Linkedin
- OnionBlender 2 months agoHow do I stop Linkedin from sending me notifications trying to get me to play games on their app?
- OnionBlender 2 months ago
- Quinzel 2 months agoBlockudoku