LMP Daily Games Guide
The daily games directory
There are daily games for every kind of brain: word puzzles like Wordle and Connections, meaning games like Contexto, logic puzzles like Queens and Pips, geography games like Worldle and TimeGuessr, film and music games like Framed and Bandle, and creative-answer games like STRANDED and Krillion. This directory lists 23 of them by kind, with what you do, how long it takes and what it costs.
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.
We are Last Minute Productions (LMP), a small studio that makes browser games, including STRANDED. This is the list we keep of daily games worth knowing: what each one is, what it asks of you, and who it suits. We checked every game against its own site and reporting on it in October 2026.
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Creative answers
Krillion
Give one answer to each of seven daily prompts; rarer valid answers score more and take your dive deeper.
A trivia game that rewards the answer other players miss rather than the obvious one.
Visit Krillion →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.
There is no single right answer, so the fun is finding the one nobody else thought of, then seeing which of nine endings you earned.
Play STRANDED free →Word puzzles
Wordle
Guess a five-letter word in six tries, with coloured tiles showing which letters are right and where.
The game that made daily puzzles a habit: one word, one shot a day, and a result grid everyone understands.
Visit Wordle →Connections
Sort sixteen words into four groups of four that share something, with four mistakes allowed.
The red herrings: most words seem to fit two groups, and the hardest group is usually a pun or wordplay.
Visit Connections →Strands
Find the day's themed words in a letter grid, including a spangram that spans the board, until every letter is used.
A word search with a mystery theme you have to work out as you go.
Visit Strands →Quordle
Solve four five-letter words at once, with every guess going on all four boards and nine guesses in all.
Wordle with four times the pressure, for people who find one word too easy.
Visit Quordle →Word meaning
Contexto
Find a secret word with unlimited guesses; each guess is ranked by how close its meaning is, with the answer at number 1.
It trains a different muscle from spelling games: thinking about how words are used together.
Visit Contexto →Semantle
Guess a secret word; each guess gets a similarity score from a language model, with 100 meaning you found it.
The hardest of the meaning games, with a numeric score that rewards patient hunting.
Visit Semantle →Logic puzzles
Pips
Place dominoes on a board so every coloured region meets its rule: a sum, all equal, not equal, more than or less than.
Three daily difficulties, so it works as a quick warm-up or a proper think.
Visit Pips →Queens
Place one queen in every row, column and coloured region, with no two queens touching, even diagonally.
Fast to learn, satisfying to clear, and LinkedIn shows how people in your network did.
Visit Queens →Nerdle
Guess a hidden maths equation in six tries, with Wordle-style colours for each number and symbol.
Wordle for people who like numbers more than letters.
Visit Nerdle →Murdle
Solve a short murder mystery each day: work out who did it, with what and where, from clues and a deduction grid.
A logic grid with a story and jokes, by the author of the Murdle puzzle books.
Visit Murdle →Geography
GeoGuessr
You are dropped somewhere in Street View; look around for clues and pin where you think you are on a map.
The original place-guessing game, and the deepest one if you want to get good.
Visit GeoGuessr →TimeGuessr
For each of five photos, pin where it was taken and pick the year; closer guesses score more.
GeoGuessr with history added: the year is often harder than the place.
Visit TimeGuessr →Worldle
Name a country from its silhouette in six tries, with each miss showing the distance and direction to the answer.
A quick geography check with a compass to steer by.
Visit Worldle →Globle
Guess a mystery country; each guess is coloured on a globe by how close it is, hotter as you get nearer.
Hot-and-cold on a spinning globe: no country is a wasted guess.
Visit Globle →Travle
Connect two countries by naming the countries in between, in as few guesses as you can, with optional hints.
Route-finding on a map instead of naming one place, plus a weekly challenge.
Visit Travle →Tradle
Guess a country from a chart of what it exports, in six tries, with distance and direction after each miss.
Geography through trade data: you learn what places actually sell to the world.
Visit Tradle →Film, music and art
Framed
Guess the film from stills, with another frame shown after each wrong guess, up to six.
Movie trivia without the trivia: you only need to recognise a scene.
Visit Framed →Bandle
Guess the song as its instruments are added one at a time, in up to six guesses.
A song built up from the drums upward, so the moment you recognise it is the fun.
Visit Bandle →Artle
Guess the artist behind a set of artworks in four tries, with another work shown after each miss.
A daily look at real works from a national collection, even when you miss.
Visit Artle →Party games
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.
Arguing about where "a good pizza topping" falls between overrated and underrated is the whole game.
Visit Wavelength →One-off browser games
The Password GameNot daily
Make a password that satisfies a list of rules that start sensible and become absurd.
A comedy of escalating demands; not a daily game, but one everyone should play once.
Visit The Password Game →All 23 games at a glance
| Game | Kind | Daily? | Session | Cost | Account |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Krillion | Creative answers | Yes | A few minutes | Free to play | Not needed to play |
| STRANDED | Creative answers | Yes | About 2 minutes | Free; no account needed | Optional (Google), to keep streaks and skins |
| Wordle | Word puzzles | Yes | 2 to 5 minutes | Free | Optional (NYT), to keep stats across devices |
| Connections | Word puzzles | Yes | 3 to 10 minutes | Free | Optional (NYT) |
| Strands | Word puzzles | Yes | 5 to 10 minutes | Free | Optional (NYT) |
| Quordle | Word puzzles | Yes | 5 to 10 minutes | Free | Not needed |
| Contexto | Word meaning | Yes | 5 to 20 minutes | Free | Not needed |
| Semantle | Word meaning | Yes | 10 minutes to an hour | Free | Not needed |
| Pips | Logic puzzles | Yes | 2 to 15 minutes | On NYT Games | See NYT Games |
| Queens | Logic puzzles | Yes | 1 to 5 minutes | Free | LinkedIn account required |
| Nerdle | Logic puzzles | Yes | 3 to 8 minutes | Free | Not needed |
| Murdle | Logic puzzles | Yes | 5 to 15 minutes | Free daily puzzle | Not needed for the daily |
| GeoGuessr | Geography | Yes | 5 to 15 minutes | Free daily challenge; most modes need a subscription | Required |
| TimeGuessr | Geography | Yes | 5 to 10 minutes | Free to play | Optional |
| Worldle | Geography | Yes | 2 to 5 minutes | Free | Not needed |
| Globle | Geography | Yes | 2 to 10 minutes | Free | Not needed |
| Travle | Geography | Yes | 3 to 10 minutes | Free | Not needed |
| Tradle | Geography | Yes | 3 to 8 minutes | Free | Not needed |
| Framed | Film, music and art | Yes | 1 to 5 minutes | Free | Not needed |
| Bandle | Film, music and art | Yes | 1 to 5 minutes | Free | Not needed |
| Artle | Film, music and art | Yes | 1 to 5 minutes | Free | Not needed |
| The Password Game | One-off browser games | No | 20 minutes to an hour, once | Free | Not needed |
| Wavelength | Party games | No | A party round, 20 to 45 minutes | Board game; free app | For the app |
Try STRANDED, the daily game we make
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 is a daily game?
A daily game gives everyone the same puzzle once a day, usually in a web browser, so you can play in a few minutes and compare results with friends. Wordle made the format popular; there are now daily games for words, logic, geography, film, music and creative answers.
Which daily games are free?
Most of the games in this directory are free in a browser, including Wordle, Connections, Strands, Quordle, Contexto, Semantle, Worldle, Globle, Framed, Bandle, Artle, Tradle and STRANDED. GeoGuessr has a free daily challenge, but most of its modes need a subscription, and Queens needs a LinkedIn account.
Which daily games do not need an account?
Contexto, Semantle, Quordle, Worldle, Globle, Travle, Tradle, Framed, Bandle, Artle, Nerdle and STRANDED can all be played without signing up. NYT games such as Wordle and Connections let you play without an account, and an account keeps your stats.
Who made this directory?
Last Minute Productions (LMP), the studio that makes STRANDED. STRANDED is included and marked as ours; every other game is made by someone else, and none of them is affiliated with LMP.