Daily Puzzles
There are 14 games here with a daily: one puzzle chosen by the date, the same for everybody who opens it, replaced tomorrow. This is the page that says what today's are and takes you straight to them.
Today's quiz, block board, sort run and riddle change in 00:00:00
Today, on its own page
The games where the daily is the whole thing you came for.
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Riddle of the Day
One riddle drawn from all 3,060 riddles on the site by today's date, with a hint if you want one, the answer behind a tap, and the recent days listed underneath.
About a minute. Read it, have a guess, reveal.
New at midnight UTC -
Quiz of the Day
10 general knowledge questions dealt by today's date from a pool of 60 across our quiz packs, fifteen seconds each, on a board that only holds today's runs. Every question, its answer and why it is the answer stay written out on the page afterwards.
Three or four minutes to play. Longer if you stay for the answers.
New at midnight UTC -
Block Puzzle: today's board
The same pieces in the same order for every player today, and a leaderboard that starts empty each morning. Replay it as often as you like; the first score you send is the one that goes on the board.
A few minutes, or as long as you keep finding room.
New at midnight UTC -
Sort Puzzle: today's run
One seeded ladder of bottles and a shared budget of 100 moves. Sort as many boards as the budget allows, and every player today gets the same ladder in the same order.
A few minutes. The run ends when the moves do.
New at midnight UTC
Today, on the map
Every world on the puzzle map carries the same two things: a Daily tile picked by the date, and three daily quests with a chest at the end of them. The tile is named after the world it sits in.
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Rebus Town: Daily Rebus and quests
Today's date picks one rebus from the ones you have not cracked yet, and the same three quests for everybody: one you will finish without trying, one worth working at, and one with a bit of spice. Clear all three and the chest opens.
A couple of minutes for the rebus. The quests fill up while you play.
New at midnight where you are -
Mahjong Garden: Daily Board
Mahjong Solitaire has a Daily tile of its own: today's date picks one board from the ones you have not finished in Mahjong Garden, and the same three daily quests run underneath it.
A couple of minutes for one board. The quests tick over while you play.
New at midnight where you are -
Word Search Grove: Daily Word Hunt
Word Search has a Daily tile of its own: today's date picks one puzzle from the ones you have not finished in Word Search Grove, and the same three daily quests run underneath it.
A couple of minutes for one puzzle. The quests tick over while you play.
New at midnight where you are -
Crossword Corner: Daily Crossword
Crossword has a Daily tile of its own: today's date picks one crossword from the ones you have not finished in Crossword Corner, and the same three daily quests run underneath it.
A couple of minutes for one crossword. The quests tick over while you play.
New at midnight where you are -
Riddle Kingdom: Daily Riddle
Riddle Quest has a Daily tile of its own: today's date picks one riddle from the ones you have not finished in Riddle Kingdom, and the same three daily quests run underneath it.
A couple of minutes for one riddle. The quests tick over while you play.
New at midnight where you are -
Mirror Meadow: Daily Difference
Spot the Difference has a Daily tile of its own: today's date picks one picture from the ones you have not finished in Mirror Meadow, and the same three daily quests run underneath it.
A couple of minutes for one picture. The quests tick over while you play.
New at midnight where you are -
Rainbow Ridge: Daily Sequence
Color Recall has a Daily tile of its own: today's date picks one sequence from the ones you have not finished in Rainbow Ridge, and the same three daily quests run underneath it.
A couple of minutes for one sequence. The quests tick over while you play.
New at midnight where you are -
Jumble Fair: Daily Jumble
Word Scramble has a Daily tile of its own: today's date picks one puzzle from the ones you have not finished in Jumble Fair, and the same three daily quests run underneath it.
A couple of minutes for one puzzle. The quests tick over while you play.
New at midnight where you are -
Doodle Dale: Daily Page
Coloring has a Daily tile of its own: today's date picks one picture from the ones you have not finished in Doodle Dale, and the same three daily quests run underneath it.
A couple of minutes for one picture. The quests tick over while you play.
New at midnight where you are -
Sudoku Springs: Daily Grid
Sudoku has a Daily tile of its own: today's date picks one grid from the ones you have not finished in Sudoku Springs, and the same three daily quests run underneath it.
A couple of minutes for one grid. The quests tick over while you play.
New at midnight where you are
How a daily works here
- It comes from the date, not from chance. Every daily on this page is seeded with today's date, so the pieces, the bottles, the riddle, the quiz questions and the quests are worked out from the day itself. Nothing is rolled. Open the Quiz of the Day, Block Puzzle, Sort Puzzle or the Riddle of the Day today and you get exactly what everybody else got. On the map the date does the picking too, but it picks from the puzzles you personally have left in that world, so your three quests match everyone's while the puzzle itself follows your own progress.
- It changes at midnight. The Quiz of the Day, Block Puzzle, Sort Puzzle and the Riddle of the Day turn over at midnight UTC, the same instant everywhere, so nobody gets tomorrow's board early by changing time zone. The map worlds use the date on your own device instead, so your quests and your streak follow your own midnight.
- Only the daily is ranked. The Quiz of the Day, Block Puzzle and Sort Puzzle put your daily score on a board that holds today's runs and nothing else. Free play, and every quiz page that is not a daily, keeps to its own all-time board or to your device, because a score from a board only you played has nothing to be compared with.
- Nothing to sign up for. Streaks, best scores and quest progress sit in your own browser on this device. No account, no email, no download.
What is a daily puzzle?
A daily puzzle is one puzzle a day, the same one for every player, replaced the next day whether you played it or not. That is the whole idea, and the limit is the point: you cannot grind it, you cannot cherry-pick an easy one, and when it is done it is done. It turns a game you could play all evening into something that fits in a coffee break and still gives you a reason to come back tomorrow.
The other half of the idea is that it is shared. When the puzzle is picked from the calendar rather than from a shuffle, everyone playing today is working on the same thing at the same time, and "how did you do on today's one" becomes a question worth asking.
Why the same board for everyone matters
It is what makes a score mean something. Block Puzzle deals its pieces from a seeded sequence, so when one player finishes ahead of another, the gap came from how they played and not from who was handed the friendlier tray. A leaderboard filled with randomly dealt runs is a ranking of luck wearing a ranking of skill as a costume, and it stops being interesting the moment you notice.
The same reasoning shapes Sort Puzzle: one seeded ladder of bottles and one budget of moves for everybody, so clearing more boards always beats being tidy about it, and the moves you saved only settle a tie. And it is why free play, in both games, keeps its scores to itself. Those runs are seeded per run rather than per day, so there is no shared board to compare them against and pretending otherwise would just be decoration.
A shared daily is also fairer to the person who is new. Everyone starts today's board from the same empty grid, so somebody on their first day and somebody who has been here since the start are looking at the same problem.
When the day turns over
The two clocks on this page are there for two different jobs. A ranked daily needs one clock for the whole world, or the board would quietly favour whoever lives furthest east, so the Quiz of the Day, Block Puzzle, Sort Puzzle and the Riddle of the Day all roll at midnight UTC. A streak needs to match the day you are actually living in, or a late-night session would count as tomorrow and break it, so the puzzle map reads the date from your own device.
Nothing is lost when the day turns. The Riddle of the Day keeps its recent riddles on the page, and the Quiz of the Day keeps its recent questions and answers, so a day you missed is still there to read.
Where to start today
If you have a minute, take the riddle of the day. If you have a few, answer today's quiz of the day, drop pieces into today's block puzzle board or pour today's bottles in sort puzzle. If you would rather build something while you play, the map worlds keep score for you: crack today's rebus puzzle, fill a grid in sudoku, hunt words in word search, clear tiles in mahjong, or answer today's riddle in Riddle Quest.
Not in the mood for a deadline? The whole riddle library and every one of our brain games are there with no clock attached.