Finished today's Wordle? Here are four free daily puzzles to play next — a timed Wordle-style word game, two sliding tile puzzles and a logic grid — all in one app, with leaderboards.
Four free daily puzzles for Wordle fans.
Wordle's appeal is simple: one short puzzle a day, the same one for everyone, and a result you can compare with friends. The games below keep that format. The first is Wordle's five-letter guessing game with a stopwatch on it; the other three swap the guessing for a different puzzle so your daily routine isn't the same game four times.
All four are free on the web, iOS and Android, get a new puzzle every day, and rank your solve time on a global leaderboard and against friends. If you only want a single replacement for Wordle, see our Wordle alternative page; if you're looking to replace the whole NYT Games lineup, see the NYT Games alternative.
Each one takes a few minutes. Play them in order or pick the one that fits your mood.
The closest thing to Wordle on this list. Guess the hidden five-letter word: every guess has to be a real word, and each letter comes back green (right spot), yellow (in the word, wrong spot) or gray (not in the word). The twist is the clock. There's no six-guess limit — you keep going until you get it, and your solve time is your score. There's a new word every day, plus a free archive of every daily puzzle since December 2022.
Play Speed Word How it works
A word game with no guessing. The board is a row of letter columns; slide each column up or down, and whenever the letters across the middle row spell a real word, those tiles turn green. Finish by turning every tile green, which means finding a set of words that uses every letter on the board. Timed and ranked, with a new board every day.
Play Word Slide How it works
Word Slide with numbers. Each column holds digits or symbols, and you slide them until the middle row reads as a true equation, like 2+1=3. Keep making equations until every tile is green. It's a quick change of pace when you want a break from words.
Play Math Slide How it works
A logic puzzle rather than a word game, with the same rules as LinkedIn's Queens: place one star in every row, column and color region, and no two stars can touch, not even diagonally. There's a daily puzzle, plus 200 extra puzzles in packs from 5×5 beginner grids up to 12×12.
Play Speed Stars How it worksThese aren't ours, but they're popular with Wordle players and worth knowing about:
Want Wordle itself, just faster? Timed Wordle is our sister site: Wordle with a timer and a daily leaderboard, right in your browser. And if one puzzle a day isn't enough, here's how to play unlimited Wordle-style puzzles for free.
If you want the same five-letter guessing game, Speed Word plays like Wordle with a timer and a leaderboard. For something different, try Word Slide or Math Slide (slide columns of tiles to spell words or equations) and Speed Stars (a Queens-style logic puzzle). Other well-known daily games Wordle players enjoy include NYT Connections, Strands, Spelling Bee, Quordle, Octordle and Waffle.
Yes. All four PEMDAS games — Speed Word, Word Slide, Math Slide and Speed Stars — are free on the web, iOS and Android, with no subscription. Each has a new puzzle every day, and every past daily puzzle is free to play in the archive.
Speed Word. You guess a hidden five-letter word and get the same green, yellow and gray letter clues. The differences: there's no six-guess limit, and your solve time is your score, ranked against other players and your friends.
PEMDAS puts four daily puzzles in one free app: Speed Word (Wordle-style), Word Slide (a word puzzle), Math Slide (an equation puzzle) and Speed Stars (a logic grid). It doesn't have a Connections-style grouping game; for that, NYT Connections is the original.
Yes. Speed Word's archive has every daily puzzle since December 2022 — over 1,300 of them. Solve one and the next one back unlocks, so you can keep going as long as you like.
