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I made a simple daily word puzzle is a word puzzle game that offers one puzzle per day. It launched in February 2024 and is available at triword.net. The game is designed for casual players looking for a… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I made a simple daily word puzzle launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    18 Words▲1,160

    Play 18 Words, the free daily word puzzle. The official home is 18words.com. Tap Play now to open today

    Jul 2026 · 18words.com · its alternatives →

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    2022 · twentyletters.com · its alternatives →

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    I've been playing Wordle and remembered this puzzle game I used to play with my grandfather. It's inspired by the block puzzles in many newspapers but made to be shorter: just guess the nine letter word. So I made a quick thing to play with my family like we used to. I thought you guys might enjoy it.

    2022 · nineletterwordgame.com · its alternatives →

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    Daily word-grid puzzle

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    WordHoop▲225

    A daily word game

    2024 · wordhoop.com · its alternatives →

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    This is a game I wrote over the last month and a bit. The effort allocation was pretty different from what I've done in the past. The game design snapped together very quickly: I had the initial idea, played a couple of games on a spreadsheet to get a feel for the idea, and made one change based on those plays. After that everything felt just right through multiple rounds of playtesting. Likewise the puzzle generation is nowhere near as elaborate as in my previous game, fairly simple methods worked well and provided good variety. Instead I ended up spending silly amounts of time on curating…

    2024 · huewords.snellman.net · its alternatives →

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    Guess the word. One puzzle a day.

    2025 · todaywordle.org · its alternatives →

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    100 Day Project - 100 mini crossword puzzles

    2016 · eliotfowler.github.io · its alternatives →

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    I shared Word Slicer here a while back — it’s a free, ad-free, browser-based word game where you try to find 5 words in 5 minutes. Since then I’ve been improving it (daily challenge archive, cleaner UI, better stats), and I’d love more feedback from the HN crowd. In particular, I’m interested in thoughts on the gameplay flow, design/UX, and what would make it more engaging.

    2024 · wordslicer.com · its alternatives →

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    Fun daily word game where you make sequences of words.

    2022 · robinwords.com · its alternatives →

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    A daily word puzzle from the 1970s

    2022 · retrogram.app · its alternatives →

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    Hey everyone, I built a new daily puzzles site with all original formats that I'm releasing today called The Daily Baffle. This is the successor project to my simple puzzle Triword from last year. There's a mix of different puzzles, done in the style of a classic newspaper games page. I think you'll especially like the Pathword, but all of my friends have different favorites. Come find yours!

    2025 · dailybaffle.com · its alternatives →

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    One puzzle, Five chances, Every day.

    2025 · playdailycrack.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everybody. I occasionally make little browser-based games, and this is my latest attempt. It's not quite done, but it's quite playable (note: it does include audio): https://www.omiword.com/ This has been my occasional tinker target for ~5 years now, starting in the early days of Covid. The objective is to drag letter tiles within certain boundaries to spell four common American-English words. It hasn't got ads or anything, it's just supposed to be fun for its own sake. If people happen to like it, I might add an option for folks to make a small, one-time payment to unlock…

    2025 · omiword.com · its alternatives →

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    A collection of daily word puzzles I made

    2024 · wordnerd.co · its alternatives →

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    A simple, challenging, daily, word game

    2022 · 6words.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Daily Word Puzzle Challenge

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Vowl is a simple daily game where you have to guess three things just by looking at the vowels. Each guess will reveal how many vowels and consonants you matched.

    2023 · vowlgame.com · its alternatives →

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    Scores▲12

    A daily puzzle game

    Feb 2026 · its alternatives →

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    I build and hand-write five daily word puzzles at dailyworder.com. Every clue and answer for the dailies are mine — I use AI for the code and it's unlocked crazy speed on small but thorny problems. One technical detail as an example: Pyramid's editor (one of the five games) uses a ~350KB precomputed dataset of valid frameworks — grids where a single vowel, dropped into every slot, produces valid English words across all rows. Building the dataset was the actual work (combinatorial search over a 60k-word dictionary with constraint checks) but I did that in one session. Runtime is trivial:…

    Sep 2026 · dailyworder.com · its alternatives →

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    Daily puzzle game with support for 21 languages

    Jul 2026 · today-puzzle.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    Daily word puzzle

    2024 · its alternatives →

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