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Daily browser games: guess the place, the year, the song or the number

Twenty-two free daily browser games: geography, guessing, logic and word puzzles that reset every day. What each asks of you, and who made it.

A daily game is the opposite of a time sink. One puzzle, the same one for everybody, done in a few minutes, and then it is over until tomorrow. That is the whole appeal: something to look forward to, and something to compare with whoever else played.

Almost all of these were made by independent developers and submitted to SlowDen directly. We counted them from each game's own listing, and only kept the ones where the daily or guessing part is the game itself, not a side mode.

Where in the world

Geography games, each with a different clue: a map, a street pattern, a statistic, a capital.

• OpenGuessr — A geography guessing game played on a world map.
  Made by OpenGuessr
• MapTap Unlimited — Spin a 3D globe, tap the city, and score by how close you land. No daily limit.
  Made by Ethan Wu (Playdaily)
• StreetDNA — Identify a city from the shape of its streets alone: no names, no landmarks, no buildings.
  Made by Hugo Soltys
• Geo Sort — Rank five countries or cities by a real statistic such as population or GDP, in three attempts.
  Made by Jasper
• World Capitals Quiz — Name the capital, multiple choice, at the difficulty you pick.
  Made by GeoFunGames

Guess the thing

One mystery a day. Something different to guess in each.

• Size It Up — Guess the real size of things. A new puzzle every day, plus a practice mode.
  Made by Ethan Wu (Playdaily)
• Songless Unlimited — A daily music guessing game.
  Made by playdaily.org
• Baffle — Identify genuine archive objects and get scored on how close your guess is.
  Made by Baffle
• Cladle.fun — Explore the tree of life to find a mystery animal species.
  Made by Lucas Ferreira
• Shople — Ten tries to name a brand from the clues.
  Made by Andrew Bellach
• Histoguessr — Guess the exact year a historical event happened. The interface is in Spanish.
  Made by Histoguessr
• Pinpoint — Coronet — Guess a hidden word from five clues in as few reveals as you can.
  Made by Coronet

Logic and numbers

No luck involved except in one of them, and that one is honest about it.

• Krillion Unlimited — A daily numbers puzzle.
  Made by Emma Hamlin
• All/Some — Work out how categories relate and build the right Euler diagram, step by step.
  Made by Stephanie Simoes and Igor Grechishkin
• Logic Grid Puzzles — Einstein- and zebra-style logic grids, at six difficulty levels every day.
  Made by Brainzilla
• Queens — Coronet — Place crowns so no two attack each other: a daily board plus endless extra ones.
  Made by Coronet
• Nonograms.games — Picture logic puzzles where number clues say which squares to fill. An original puzzle each day.
  Made by Nonograms.games
• Fish RNGdle — Roll one random number each UTC day and work out which of 233 mathematical badges it earns.
  Made by FoolFish Games

Words

Same board for everyone, which is what makes comparing scores worth doing.

• Alphabetic — A word game that works through the alphabet from A to Z, with a daily puzzle and live word races.
  Made by Can Hamur
• MultaVerba — Everyone gets the same 5x5 letter board each day; find as many words as you can.
  Made by Peter Hansen
• Wordchute — Connect touching tiles on a shifting 4x4 board and try to empty the chute. One shared daily puzzle.
  Made by Colin Hanson
• EXPANDAGRAM — Three letters, sixty seconds: find words that keep those letters in order. Same daily challenge for everyone.
  Made by E·R·D

How to fit them into a day

Most take two to five minutes. Pick one from each group and you have a small daily routine: somewhere in the world, something to identify, a logic grid, a word board. Several, including Multaverba, Wordchute and Expandagram, give every player the same board, so results are worth comparing with a friend.

Every game here is free, runs in a browser tab, and credits the person or studio who made it. More like these on the developer-made games shelf and in Puzzle. Made a daily game yourself? Submit it.