LMP Daily Games Guide · Play together
The best daily games to play with friends
The best daily games to play with friends give everyone the same puzzle and an easy way to compare. Queens shows how your LinkedIn network did, Wordle and Connections have share grids made for group chats, and TimeGuessr and Krillion make it easy to compare who did best. STRANDED adds race links that put friends on one leaderboard for the day. For playing together in the same room, Wavelength is a party game.
LMP makes STRANDED, and it is marked wherever it appears. Every other game here is made by someone else and is not affiliated with us. Nobody paid to be listed.
Every daily game is a little social, because everyone plays the same puzzle. Some go further, with links, boards and challenges that turn a solo puzzle into a competition. Here is how to compete in each.
How friends compete in daily games
- Share grids. The simplest: post your result in the group chat without giving the answer away.
- Race links and leaderboards. One player shares a link; everyone who plays from it that day is ranked together.
- Network boards. The game shows how people you are already connected with did.
- Creator challenges. Someone you follow posts a score and you try to beat it.
Our picks
1.Queens
Place one queen in every row, column and coloured region, with no two queens touching, even diagonally.
LinkedIn shows how people in your network did, which makes it a quiet office rivalry.
Visit Queens →2.Wordle
Guess a five-letter word in six tries, with coloured tiles showing which letters are right and where.
The share grid that started it all. Everyone in your chat knows how to read it.
Visit Wordle →3.Connections
Sort sixteen words into four groups of four that share something, with four mistakes allowed.
The share grid shows the order you found the groups, which starts arguments about the purple one.
Visit Connections →4.TimeGuessr
For each of five photos, pin where it was taken and pick the year; closer guesses score more.
Same five photos for everyone, so comparing who was furthest off is easy.
Visit TimeGuessr →5.Krillion
Give one answer to each of seven daily prompts; rarer valid answers score more and take your dive deeper.
Everyone gets the same seven prompts, so comparing who found the deepest answer is half the fun.
Visit Krillion →6.STRANDEDMade by LMP
Answer six open-ended questions a day; the fewer players who gave your answer, the more it scores, and the further a crashed alien runs on his way home.
Built for comparing: your answers are scored against everyone else's, so a friend's surprise answer is half the fun. Race links put friends on one board for the day, and creator challenges let you play against people you follow. Made by LMP.
Play STRANDED free →7.WavelengthNot daily
One player gives a clue for a hidden point on a spectrum between two ideas; their team turns a dial to where they think it is.
Not a daily game: a party game for the same room or a video call, where the arguing is the fun.
Visit Wavelength →Playing STRANDED with friends
- Share your result. The result screen gives you a link with your score and ending. When a friend plays from it, you unlock the Recruiter skin.
- Start a friends' race. After finishing the day's run, signed-in players can turn it into a race link. Friends who play from it that day go on the race's leaderboard, and winning a race of 10 or more players earns the Rival skin.
- Take on a creator. Creators have their own challenge links. Beat their score on the day to win their alien skin, and see where you rank on their board.
Only signed-in players appear on race and creator leaderboards, because only their scores are kept under a name. Anyone can play from a race link without signing in.
Start a race in STRANDED
STRANDED is a free daily browser game made by Last Minute Productions. Each day everyone gets the same six open-ended questions, such as "Name something you shouldn't do on a first date." Each accepted answer scores between 1 and 500 points depending on how few other players gave it, and the total out of 3,000 decides how far a small crashed alien gets on his way home and which of nine endings he reaches.
Play STRANDED free Made by Last Minute Productions, the publisher of this guide.How to play STRANDED
- Open stranded.run. It runs in any phone or computer browser. There is nothing to download and no sign-up.
- Answer six questions, 25 seconds each. If an answer is not on the list, you lose nothing and can try another until the clock runs out.
- Rarer answers score more. An answer given by about 30% of players is worth around 100 points; one given by fewer than 1 in 200 is worth 500.
- Watch the alien run. He runs through the woods, the farm, downtown and Area 39 as your points add up.
- See your ending. Your total decides which of nine endings you get. Scores of 2,201 or more reach the secret one and a bonus question.
The full rules and the scoring table are on the how to play STRANDED page.
Why come back tomorrow
A new run with six new questions opens every day at midnight US Central time, and everyone gets one try. Finishing on consecutive days builds a streak, which earns silver, gold and diamond skins at 10, 25 and 50 days.
Accounts and saved progress
You can play STRANDED without an account. Signing in with Google is optional: it keeps your streak and skins on any device, gives you a player name, and lets you start a friends' race and appear on race and creator leaderboards. Without signing in, your progress is kept in your browser.
Questions people ask
What daily games can you play with friends?
Queens shows your LinkedIn network's results. Wordle, Connections, TimeGuessr and Krillion have results made for comparing. STRANDED has race links with a leaderboard for each day and creator challenges. Wavelength is a party game for playing together.
How do friends' races work in STRANDED?
After finishing the day's run, a signed-in player can start a race and share its link. Friends who play from it that day are ranked on the race's leaderboard. Winning a race of 10 or more players earns the Rival skin.
Do my friends need an account to play?
No. Anyone can play STRANDED from a race or result link without signing in. Signing in is needed to start a race and to appear by name on a leaderboard.
What is a creator challenge?
A STRANDED creator, such as a streamer, has a challenge link. Players who beat the creator's score that day win the creator's alien skin and appear on the creator's board.