Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to minute cryptic
One cryptic clue a day. Wickedly satisfying.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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2024 · triword.net · its alternatives →
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2022 · twentyletters.com · its alternatives →
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100 Day Project - 100 mini crossword puzzles
2016 · eliotfowler.github.io · its alternatives →
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Crosswordle▲77Like a tiny game of Scrabble, generated each day
2022 · cross-wordle.games · its alternatives →
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Learn how to solve cryptic crosswords with this app
2019 · learncrypticcrosswords.com · its alternatives →
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A daily guessing game in Slack where you can win $1,000
2019 · thewordoftheday.is · 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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One word. Ten clues. Every day.
Jun 2026 · notsoquick.app · its alternatives →
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Play word puzzles with friends, learn and train your brain
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Wordfall▲13I've been working on this for a while as an experiment and I'm now pretty happy with it. I've always written code, but I've always been a frankly incompetent frontend developer, and I've never really been able to talk myself into making a game; it was just too much trouble, even though I had ideas I wanted to try! Claude Code made it possible for the first time. I hope you like it. I'm still working on it!
2025 · playwordfall.com · its alternatives →
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A cozy daily crossword puzzle game for quick brain breaks
Mar 2026 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Get the AI to guess the word. Type clues without using the word itself. Five words, 30 seconds each. Free to play, with a new daily game and unlimited practice.
28d ago · yorohan.com · its alternatives →
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The only book you'll need to learn the basics
Mar 2026 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I'm an amateur cryptic crossword solver and setter, who cut my teeth on Minute Cryptic. I liked that you could create custom clues on MC but was annoyed that it required creating an account to do. I wanted to create a free, open-source, and (as much as possible) anonymous version to make it easy to share clues online; not everything needs a user account to provide a good service to users. I'm primarily a backend developer so this was also a learning experience in creating a site with no backend; it's all vanilla client-side HTML / CSS / JS, built using Metalsmith.js, hosted…
May 2026 · cryptick.wildvale.co.uk · its alternatives →
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I built a procedurally generated word-search game where the puzzle never ends - as you scroll, the grid expands infinitely and new words appear. It’s designed to be quick to pick up, satisfying to play, and a little addictive. The core game works without an account using the pre-defined games, but signing up allows you to generate games using any topic you can think of. I’d love feedback on gameplay, performance, and whether the endless format feels engaging over time. If you try it, I’d really appreciate any bug reports or suggestions. Thanks in advance!
Dec 2025 · endless-wordsearch.com · its alternatives →
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Play The Mini Crossword online for free!
2025 · themini-crossword.com · its alternatives →
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