PokeDoku
PokeDoku is a daily 3×3 grid puzzle where every square needs a Pokémon that satisfies both its row and its column clue. Each pick is scored by how few other players chose it, so the answer that comes to mind first is the worst one to use.
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PokeDoku is a daily 3×3 grid puzzle where every square needs a Pokémon that satisfies both its row and its column clue. Each pick is scored by how few other players chose it, so the answer that comes to mind first is the worst one to use.
Puzzmo is a daily puzzle site from game designers Zach Gage and Orta Therox, with a crossword, a sudoku variant and a dozen original word and logic games. Every puzzle is playable straight from the front page, and each one carries a constructor and editor byline like a newspaper masthead.
Framed is a daily game that shows one still from a film and asks players to name it, with five more frames revealed for each wrong guess. Its anonymous creator has been hand-picking a film every day since March 2022 — puzzle #1622 and counting.
Sedecordle is a Wordle variant that runs sixteen five-letter puzzles at once, solved with 21 shared guesses. Brad Bednar coined the word and built it in an afternoon in 2022 because the variant ladder stopped at Octordle's eight; it reached 200,000 daily players within a month.
nerdle is a daily math puzzle: find a hidden eight-character calculation in six tries, with colored tiles showing how close each guess is. The answers aren't pulled from every valid equation — the team hand-picked 17,723 they thought players would enjoy, enough for a fresh puzzle until 2070.
Waffle is a daily word puzzle where all the letters are already on the board and the job is to shuffle them into six interlocking five-letter words. Every grid is built around a ten-swap solution but allows fifteen, making the margin for error exactly five moves.
ARC Raiders is the official site for Embark Studios' extraction shooter, set on a ruined Earth patrolled by machines. Embark rebuilt it from a co-op game into PvPvE and dropped free-to-play for a flat $40, a gamble that ended in Best Multiplayer at both The Game Awards and the BAFTAs.
Bold Puzzles is a free set of large-print word searches, solitaire, sudoku and trivia built for older adults and anyone reading with low vision. It refuses the usual brain-training pitch — no promises about memory or dementia — and its grids never hide a word backwards.