Friday, May 298 puzzles today
Today's puzzles,
under one roof.
A daily ritual for puzzle people. Word squares, number grids, country guesses, score-attacks — every game in the network has its own site, its own brand, its own reset clock. PuzzleDaily collects today's puzzles so you can play them all in one sitting.
Daily · Friday, May 29
Today's puzzles
New puzzles every day at 00:00 UTC. Click through to play today's edition.
LexSweep
Sweep the grid. Five rows, five words, one daily puzzle.
Daily 5×5 word grid — guess one row at a time, share columns hint at the rest.
Daily · number dailyNumGrid
A new number puzzle every day.
Daily number-logic puzzle — Numberle-class with a fresh twist.
Daily · geo dailyMapDash
Guess the country. Daily.
Daily country-guessing game — clues from real geographic data.
Daily · word dailyTypeshift
Slide the columns. Spell every word.
Daily column-shift word puzzle — line up the letters across one row to spell every target word.
Daily · word dailySpelltower
Trace words. Drop the tower. Daily.
Trace adjacent letters to form words. Cleared tiles fall away. One fresh tower every day.
Daily · logic dailyFlipart
Rotate the tiles. Connect the path.
Daily tile-rotation logic puzzle — turn every tile until the path connects edge to edge.
Daily · crossword dailyMini Crossword
A five-by-five. Two minutes. Daily.
Daily 5×5 mini crossword — quick, clean, hand-clued. The thinking-person's coffee break.
Daily · picture dailyNonogram
Numbers in. Picture out. Daily.
Daily 5×5 picross / picture-logic puzzle — use row and column run-length clues to reveal the hidden image.
More games in the network
Score-attack, endless, and on-demand puzzles. Play whenever.
Guides & comparisons
From the desk.
- Best Wordle alternatives
The strongest 2026 daily word puzzles, ranked by what they do differently from Wordle.
- Best free daily puzzle games
A directory of solid daily puzzles across word, number, geography, and logic categories.
- Wordle clones ranked, 2026 edition
Every Wordle clone we've actually played, scored on mechanic distinctiveness and daily-puzzle quality.
- Games like Connections
Daily association-puzzle alternatives — the closest things to NYT Connections out there.
- Games like 2048
Score-attack merge puzzles in the 2048 family — including the network's own HexMerge.
- History of daily puzzles
From the crossword to Wordle — how the daily puzzle format evolved into a category.
- Best puzzle newsletters
The newsletters worth subscribing to if you want a curated daily puzzle in your inbox.
About
PuzzleDaily, in plain English.
What is PuzzleDaily?
PuzzleDaily is a hub for daily browser puzzle games — a single place to play today's LexSweep, NumGrid, MapDash, and more. No accounts, no downloads, no signup. Each linked game is its own site with its own daily reset; PuzzleDaily collects them so you can play them all in one sitting.
Are these games made by PuzzleDaily?
Yes — PuzzleDaily and the linked games (LexSweep, NumGrid, MapDash, HexMerge) are all built by the same small team. Each game has its own brand, own domain, and own dedicated content because each game deserves its own focused experience. PuzzleDaily exists to make them discoverable together.
Are the games really free?
Yes. Every game in the network is free to play with no signup, no download, no paywall. Display ads (Google AdSense) on the result screen and content pages support development. There is no premium tier.
When do daily puzzles reset?
Every day at 00:00 UTC. Your local reset time depends on your time zone — for the US Pacific Coast that's 4:00 PM the previous day; for the East Coast, 7:00 PM the previous day; for London, midnight.