Daily Brains
31 puzzles. Once a day. Same for everyone, everywhere.
Great Minds
No right answers, only popular ones. Do you think like everyone else?
Pixel Peek
Name the hidden picture before it fully decrypts.
More or Less
One topic, ten match-ups. Pick the bigger one — one slip ends it.
Twisty
One cryptic crossword clue a day. New to cryptics? It teaches you.
Daily Mate
One chess problem a day. Find the forced checkmate.
Nine Lands
Nine countries on a 3×3 grid of clues — rarer answers score more.
Time Stack
Stack six moments from history oldest to newest. Three tries.
Aftercolor
Five colours flash and vanish. Paint them back from memory.
Hieroglyphics
Crack a tablet in a lost script. Gentle Monday, fiendish Sunday.
Diamond Mindbender
Deduce a diamond of digits: sums, gaps and gems. Fiendish Sundays.
Recall
Study one snapshot of a room. Then answer 8 questions from memory.
Daily Maze
One maze for everyone. Fog, keys, ice, spinning walls — beat par.
Breakfast Pan
Pack every bit of breakfast onto the plate. No gaps, no spills.
Zubix
Slide and twist a scrambled pixel picture back. Beat par.
Minimal
One tiny logic puzzle. The genre rotates; Sunday is fiendish.
Crosswired
Join every pair, cross only on bridges, light the whole board.
Word Laundering
Wash a dirty word clean, one letter at a time. Can you hit par?
Double Life
Six words, each living two unrelated lives. Unmask them.
Quiltwork
Sew the quilt: every patch holds each fabric once.
Mini Chess
Every move is a capture. Clear the board down to a single piece.
Compound Chain
Every pair of links makes a compound word. Forge the chain.
The Impostor's Dictionary
Rare words, fake definitions, invented words. Unmask the impostors.
Daily Quest
Search the web, follow the Archivist’s trail, crack the vault.
Word Autopsy
Cut three words into their roots, tag each part, name the source.
The Stupid Person Game
Six stupidly easy questions. Every one is a trap.
Deep Pixel
A secret is hidden in today’s picture. Pull it out with lab tools.
Rude Rebus
Three word-picture riddles a day. The game heckles you.
Root & Stem
Grow real words from one Latin or Greek root a day.
Daily Parking
Slide the cars and get your red one out of the jammed car park.
Proofread
Spot the planted mistakes in today’s article before it goes to print.
Numberlock
Hit three targets with + − × ÷. Every lock is solvable.
🏆 Top Brains
Every puzzle is worth up to 100 Brain Points a day (3100 a day in all). Play them all to climb.
Nobody on the board yet. The first solve takes the top spot.
Nobody on the board yet. The first solve takes the top spot.
You’re playing as a guest. Sign in or make a free account to get on the board, keep your streaks on every device and earn Tickets.
How Daily Brains works
- One puzzle per game, per day. Everyone in the world gets the same one, and a fresh set drops at your local midnight.
- Streaks. Solve on consecutive days to build a streak per puzzle. Miss a day and it resets, so come back tomorrow.
- Share, spoiler-free. Every finished puzzle gives you a little emoji grid you can post or send to friends without giving the answer away.
- Top Brains. Signed-in players earn up to 100 Brain Points per puzzle per day and climb a daily and weekly board across every puzzle.
- Part of the arcade. Solving pays Tickets and unlocks achievements like any other game here, and each puzzle has its own leaderboard and comments on its arcade page.
Why puzzles?
A short daily puzzle is a tiny workout for working memory, vocabulary and mental arithmetic, and it is a nice reason to check in with friends. That is the whole idea: a quiet corner of Wow Cool World for people who like to think.
Want the loud stuff? The full arcade is this way. More daily puzzles are on the way, and if you have an idea for one, tell us on the forum.