- Mon 19 OctMonday, 19 October 2026
- 28 puzzles today
- New set at midnight
Today’s challenge
The Daily Five
Five of today’s puzzles, the same five for everybody.
0 / 5000 of 5 done
Beat your friends, or the rest of the world.
Twenty-eight puzzles a day across words, numbers, geography and logic. Play them on your own and put your score on the boards, or send one link and play the lot against up to twelve friends.
The classics
Guess the word, spot the connections, fill the grid.
- Five Marksabout 3 minGuess the word of the day. Five letters, six goes, and every guess narrows it.Play Five Marks
- Foursabout 4 minSixteen words that make four groups of four. The fourth group is never the one you thought.Play Fours
- Quicksetabout 2 minA quickfire mini crossword. The age-old classic, minus the forty minutes.Play Quickset
Advanced logic and deduction
Longer, and more thought. No guessing anywhere, just what the clues force.
- Alibiabout 12 minFive people, five rooms, one evening. Cross off what the clues rule out and exactly one arrangement is left standing.Shows you how it works first.Play Alibi
- Gridlightabout 5 minThe numbers count the runs of filled squares on each line. Light the right ones and a picture comes up out of the grid.Shows you how it works first.Play Gridlight
- Skylineabout 25 minFive streets of towers, one to five storeys. All you are told is how many rooftops each view can see.Shows you how it works first.Play Skyline
- Perjuryabout 5 minSix suspects, one culprit, and a liar lies about everything. Work out who to believe and the rest follows.Shows you how it works first.Play Perjury
- Tidelineabout 7 minEvery number is an island of exactly that many squares. Flood the rest, and the sea can never fill a two-by-two block.Shows you how it works first.Play Tideline
- Hearsayabout 5 minEvery square makes a claim about the squares touching it. Mark it true if it is right and false if it is wrong, and only one grid works.Shows you how it works first.Play Hearsay
Cryptics, codes and quizzes
Crack the cryptic, break the code, answer what almost nobody can.
- Penny Dropabout 3 minYou are looking for one word and the clue is right there. Four goes, and three hints if your pride can take them.Play Penny Drop
- Cipherlineabout 6 minA saying with every letter swapped for another. Break the code and read back what it says.Play Cipherline
- Percentabout 2 minFive questions, 50% down to 1%. Almost nobody clears the last one.Play Percent
Today’s leaders
Nobody with an account has played a puzzle today yet. A point is what a puzzle made of your go, out of a hundred, and points add up over the week, the month and all time.
Week, month and all timeKeep your streak
Without an account your streak lives in this browser, so clearing your browsing data ends it, and some browsers do that for you. An account keeps it instead, on whatever you sign in on, brings across whatever this browser has already played, and puts your name on the boards if you want it there. It stays optional and everything here works without one.
Make an accountWhat Puzzle Party is
A daily puzzle site with a lobby attached. A puzzle of the day, the same board for everybody, so a score means the same thing for everyone. Most of them have an unlimited mode for when one is not enough.
Then there is the lobby. Make one, send the link, and two to twelve people play a run of games against each other with no account, no download and nothing to install. Rounds are scored by where you came rather than by a raw number, so a run of very different games still adds up to one fair table.