LMP Daily Games Guide · Free and instant
Free daily browser games, no download required
Free daily games you can play in a browser with no download include Wordle, Connections, Strands, Quordle, Contexto, Semantle, Worldle, Globle, Travle, Tradle, Framed, Bandle, Artle, Nerdle, Murdle and STRANDED. Most need no account at all, and most take under ten minutes.
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 game here opens in a normal web browser on a phone, tablet or computer. Nothing to install, nothing to buy, and most do not ask you to sign up. They are good for a coffee break: most take under ten minutes.
Free, in a browser, today
| Game | Kind | Session | Account |
|---|---|---|---|
| STRANDED | Creative answers | About 2 minutes | Optional (Google), to keep streaks and skins |
| Wordle | Word puzzles | 2 to 5 minutes | Optional (NYT), to keep stats across devices |
| Connections | Word puzzles | 3 to 10 minutes | Optional (NYT) |
| Strands | Word puzzles | 5 to 10 minutes | Optional (NYT) |
| Quordle | Word puzzles | 5 to 10 minutes | Not needed |
| Contexto | Word meaning | 5 to 20 minutes | Not needed |
| Semantle | Word meaning | 10 minutes to an hour | Not needed |
| Nerdle | Logic puzzles | 3 to 8 minutes | Not needed |
| Murdle | Logic puzzles | 5 to 15 minutes | Not needed for the daily |
| Worldle | Geography | 2 to 5 minutes | Not needed |
| Globle | Geography | 2 to 10 minutes | Not needed |
| Travle | Geography | 3 to 10 minutes | Not needed |
| Tradle | Geography | 3 to 8 minutes | Not needed |
| Framed | Film, music and art | 1 to 5 minutes | Not needed |
| Bandle | Film, music and art | 1 to 5 minutes | Not needed |
| Artle | Film, music and art | 1 to 5 minutes | Not needed |
Our favourites
1.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.
Two minutes, six questions, no sign-up. The rarer your answers, the further the alien gets. Made by LMP.
Play STRANDED free →2.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 →3.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 →4.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 →5.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 →6.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 →Free, with a catch
A few popular daily games are free but ask for more. GeoGuessr's daily challenge is free with an account, while most of its other modes need a subscription. Queens is free but needs a LinkedIn account. The Password Game is free with no account, but it is a one-off rather than a daily game.
No download, no sign-up: 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 are the best free daily browser games?
Wordle, Connections, Strands, Contexto, Worldle, Framed, Murdle and STRANDED are all free in a browser with no download. Most take two to ten minutes.
Can I play daily games at work without installing anything?
Yes. All of the games in our table run in a web browser, and most need no account, so there is nothing to install.
Is STRANDED free?
Yes. STRANDED is free in any browser, with no download and no account. The site shows adverts, never while you are answering or running.
Do these games work on phones?
Yes. They run in mobile browsers as well as on computers.