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Just Divide

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Grand prix multiplication.

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Division Derby

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Multiplication Chart

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Multiplication Video

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Find the Bus Stop

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Undercover Pro

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Grid Junior

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Sophia's World

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Fox Adventurer

Block the Pig

Logic Steps

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Car Park Puzzle

Red Block Returns

Connect the Roads

Robot Islands PLUS

Cookie Trail

Cross the Bridge

Mazes and Keys

Mini Golf World

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Pingu and Friends

Cake Topping

Katana Fruit

Mila's Magic Shop

Alien Cubes

Maze Control

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Pixel Slime

Gravity Escape

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The Parking Lot

Four Colors

Logic Magnets

Feed That Thing

Trap the Mouse

Gnomy Night

Dots and Boxes

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Andy's Golf

Red Block Returns 2

Red Block Returns 3

Islands Of Creatures

Jelly Doods

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Maze Collapse 3

Monsterland 5

Ghostie Loners

Lightybulb 2

Scratch and Sniff

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Green Mission

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Monsta Munchies

Fox Journey

Piece of Pie

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Jewel Routes

Spatial Rescue

Adventure Tom

Jon Lightning

Zippy Boxes

ClickPLAY Time 6

Jelly Collapse

Tube Master

Overlap Sums

Number Sequence

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Shift the Block

Paint the House Blue

Number Path

Liquid Sort

Laser Maker

Animal Memory

Monsterjong

Rainbow Tower

Break the Code

Sum Links 2

Tetra Squares

Tip Tap Tile

One Clown Standing

The Warehouse

Four in a Row

Piggy in the Puddle 2

Brain Patterns

Capture and Turn

Red Swap Blue

Memory Artist

How to Feed Animals

Bubble Blaster

Me and the Key

Me and the Key 2

Duck Think!

Factory Balls

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Late Homework

Late Homework plunges players into the shoes of Haneko, a student who realizes after school hours that she has left her critical homework assignments behind in her classroom. With the due date ominously set for the next day, failure to retrieve these documents could spell disaster for her academic standing. Compelled by necessity, she returns to her school under the cover of night, only to find the building transformed into an eerie, unfamiliar place. As Haneko, players must navigate the dark, silent corridors of the school, which seem to twist and change under the cloak of darkness, making the simple task of retrieving homework an unexpectedly daunting challenge.

Encounters in the Haunted Halls

As the game unfolds, it becomes clear that Haneko is not alone; a strange anomaly haunts the hallways, adding a layer of suspense and peril to her mission. Late Homework evolves into a survival horror experience, where stealth and quick thinking are key to avoiding the lurking dangers. The game’s low-poly 3D environments enhance the unsettling atmosphere, casting long shadows and creating chilling visual effects that keep players on edge. Each step forward can lead to heart-pounding encounters, requiring players to solve puzzles and evade the mysterious presence haunting the school. The difficulty increases with each area of the school explored, testing players’ resolve and ability to remain calm under pressure. This bite-sized horror adventure challenges players to think strategically and act swiftly to help Haneko escape with her assignments—and her life.

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Here, you can interactively learn the multiplication tables. Adding a game element with the free multiplication games makes it more fun to practice. This is a good variation on the speed test, the tables diploma, and exercises at school with a reinforcing learning effect.

With the help of these educational games, you can do some extra exercises to learn all the multiplication tables well. These math multiplication games aim to help you learn the multiplication tables offered in primary school. So, you can play 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 multiplication games online. These free math multiplication facts games for kids are made to make learning more fun and interactive. Emphasis is not just on practicing but also on playing. The advantage is that you play and learn. You can remember them best by repeating them frequently. It is good to practice 10 minutes a day and thus achieve the best result by repetition. This improves the arithmetic knowledge of children of factors and multiples. These free math multiplication facts games are developed for 3rd, 4th and 5th-grade students, but everyone who likes can play these games.

These math games for kids are good to help to learn times tables. This is a beautiful addition to primary school education and a good foundation for mathematics assignments in high school. By exercising well and regularly, you can surprise your teacher in class with good answers!

The now available times tables games are, for example, ‘Figo and Friends’ and ‘Multiplication Duck.’ At the Duck game, the goal is to collect the key and go through the door to pass the level. This can be done by answering the questions correctly. But you have to look for the right way and be fast enough.

You can play memory with the sums and answers in the memory game. You can play with one or more multiplication tables at a time. What's nice is that it can play one vs one. This way, you can play against your classmate or friend or play a match against your teacher. Another multiplication multiplayer game is the 100 seconds multiplayer version, where you can play again with all your classmates.

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Educational Games for Kids

Welcome to TurtleDiary! Our award winning educational website offers 1000+ learning activities that are both interactive and educational. The games support necessary skills while promoting fun. TurtleDiary activities are compatible with grade levels K-5 and provide opportunities to enhance material retention and increase success in the classroom.

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Introduce kids to new, exciting ways of learning with the help of fun online games, videos, experiments, puzzles, coloring sheets, and more! TurtleDiary activities pair with the appropriate grade level to enhance retention of material and increase success in the classroom.

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Turtle Diary offers a unique blend of education and entertainment to create the ideal interactive learning platform for your little ones. The kids' quizzes offered on our site enable children from first to fifth grade to become confident in applying learned concepts, and grant instant evaluations.

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TurtleDiary offers 1000+ games that are interactive, educational, and that kids love to play. TurtleDiary includes multiple learning-based games for kids that support necessary skills while promoting fun.

From basic topics like Number Recognition, Simple Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division, to more complex topics like Geometry, kids can master Math basics and more.

Language and Art Games

Kids learn Sight Words, Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, and other Parts of Speech, developing grammar skills right in the app.

Nowadays, the skill of typing is undoubtedly essential. More activities are technology based and knowing how to type efficiently and successfully is key. TurtleDiary provides fun keyboarding games for kids that develop the necessary skills for typing success.

For kids who thrive on competition and challenge, we offer many fun multiplayer games. Kids can engage with their classmates, a friend (with an invite) and others in the world, in a safe environment.

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Our science games will develop your child's sense of curiosity. They build upon basic science concepts, reinforcing comprehension in an engaging, approachable, stimulating manner. Our program offers a collection of science games covering topics like the human body, weather, life cycles, animals, and much more.

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In our map games, kids learn about US and World Geography. Students have access to maps of the world divided into different regions, so learning is simpler, and tasks feel less overwhelming.

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We have over 500+ Online quizzes enabling children from first to fifth grade to become more confident in applying learned concepts. They can also receive instant evaluations. Our fun quizzes give kids the opportunity to receive positive feedback as they master new skills and build their knowledge base.

Typing Lessons

The app offers 3 skill levels for typing - basic, intermediate, and advanced, that include multiple lessons in each. The basic level covers touch typing skills and introduction to the QWERTY keyboard. At the intermediate level, students learn to type basic words and simple sentences. The final advanced level progresses kids to more complex sentences and short paragraphs, all the while building solid typing skills. The program is comprehensive enough to ensure typing mastery and user friendly so your child can develop at an individualized pace.

Worksheets are a great learning tool for kids just learning to write or those who want additional practice at home. At TurtleDiary, we recognize the importance of practicing educational content online and offline. We offer 1000+ printable worksheets in subjects such as language arts, math, and science. Worksheets give students an opportunity to display their work in a written format and to receive feedback. Be sure to check out our fun and colorful worksheets for kids, available for download.

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Learn US states and Countries with their capital and their location.

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Foundational topics like Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division subdivided into smaller related subtopics, progressing from easy to hard, in a step-by-step manner.

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These quizzes will help kids learn Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Compound Words, Conjunctions. They are the building blocks of all reading and writing.

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TurtleDiary offers assessment tools and detailed reports for teachers to track students’ activities and to report their progress. For example, we offer:

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Teachers can create their own worksheets, with customizable and unique content.

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Teachers have the option to print from our 100+ lessons or review lessons online for inspiration and ideas.

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We offer plenty of assessment tests, accessible anytime, to analyze student performance and identify areas of concern to address.

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In the app, teachers can create their own assignments, and send them right to students, with ease.

Teachers can view reports, including quiz scores and activity performance to closely track how students are progressing.

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Our app offers a seamless integration with Google drive. Teachers can access current or past google drive documents without leaving the program.

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Teachers can login to TurtleDiary using their existing Google Account. They can use a simple process to import their existing google classrooms into TurtleDiary, saving time and teaching resources.

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Our app offers several management features that simplify and streamline processes for administrators and educators in a top-down approach.

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District Administrators: The app design allows District Administrators to invite multiple schools to join the program. Once School Administrators become established, teachers can receive individual invitations to create accounts.

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Using TurtleDiary Login Credentials: Teachers and students each receive their own accounts so sharing passwords is not necessary.

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Our dashboard provides an easy-to-use interface to access the TurtleDiary program and all its offerings. From the dashboard, teachers can manage classes and update student details, easily adding students or creating classes, as needed.

Educational Games & Activities to Guide Kids in Elementary School

Turtle Diary offers a huge compendium of online educational games from K4 through 5th grade. These support the content kids are already learning in the classroom. Often students need just a little bit of extra help to master those concepts that are introduced in the classroom. With Turtle Diary they can have that...and so much more.

The games contain amazing graphics with age-appropriate content for each grade level in each subject. Students will enjoy playing the games while you know that behind the scenes, they’re practicing and reinforcing new skills.

With Turtle Diary, kids can try multiple games that all reinforce the same concept. This gives them a scaffolded and repetitive approach to mastery of a variety of subjects. Gone are the days of rote memorization and boring flash cards.

With our site, kids will be begging to come back and play some more games. Students can play by themselves, with classmates online, or with other kids logging on. It adds an element of positive peer experience, knowing that other kids are also practicing. And they can have a bit of competition if they want!

Instead of constant battles about working on learning skills, introduce your kids to Turtle Diary. Then, take a step back to watch the magic of learning happen!

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Put away your flashcards and workbooks and log on to see the new way to master educational skills! Top educators worked exclusively with Turtle Diary to create game after game with superior content and maximum fun for every child.

The concepts reviewed parallel those taught in the everyday classroom for grades K4 through 5th grade. Students focus on mastering the concept on their own with consistent and repetitive review. They won’t even realize they’re reviewing thanks to incredibly fun graphics, sounds, and interactive games.

These games will keep your kids coming back for more day after day. You can rest easy knowing they’re working towards their future.

With skills backed by top educators, parents know that Turtle Diary is giving their kids the best they have to offer. The games help to solidify the necessary skills needed for their specific grade levels.

Turtle Diary’s games are not only educational, but incredibly fun. They can even be a bit competitive at times when you choose a multiplayer option.

Students can also link up with kids in their classes and play games specifically recommended by their teacher. This helps them master the exact concepts they are working on in their classroom. The possibilities are endless, and the fun is never-ending.

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Gamification isn’t just a new buzzword around education. The concept swirls in every educational endeavor that involves helping kids to master concepts by including games, rewards, and fun.

With Turtle Diary, concepts can be practiced in a variety of ways. But the kids will tell you they prefer the gamification features. They can see how well they’re doing in the games with the interactive scoring component.

Often, there is a countdown that occurs with each game. This encourages the students to beat their own best time on whatever concept they happen to be studying.

Who doesn’t love a good story or to be the hero in your own story? With Turtle Diary, students can play games where they must slay a dragon, or shoot hoops, or race a car. They answer questions that help them to practice and master important grade-level concepts.

Students will come back again and again for more competition as well. Turtle Diary’s multiplayer options allow students to pit themselves against kids from their own class. They can also play someone in the Turtle Diary platform. A bit of friendly competition often encourages students towards mastery in a way that nothing else quite can.

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Sometimes grades in school don’t reflect a student’s true aptitude, and sometimes they do. Either way, students can benefit from time spent on Turtle Diary instead of in front of mindless video games.

Our platform takes the fun of video games and puts it into an educational context. This helps students learn more and enjoy the process while they’re playing. Students who don’t quite seem to be able to get a leg up in the classroom will love the opportunity to work on their skills by playing games. Those who excel can come and practice their processing and recall speeds, or work on something more challenging.

With a wide variety of great games in every subject, students will always find a place for them at Turtle Diary. Students will be empowered by the option to choose their own games. They can work towards the same goals established in their classroom in a fun and engaging way.

They often don’t realize that the games are actually helping them find success in a variety of subjects. They’re just having fun choosing their characters and working to get the next high score. Spend 15-20 minutes on Turtle Diary each day in problem areas and watch how quickly your child will improve!

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Kids learning games that can travel with you wherever you may be are one of Turtle Diary’s most exciting features. As long as you have a stable WiFi connection, your student will always have access to Turtle Diary’s entire platform. Kids learning games are everywhere these days, so you want to have the right one at their fingertips at all times.

Turtle Diary promises to be an adventure in education that can travel with you wherever you may be. There’s nothing like learning on the go! Kids have this opportunity with the wide variety of games and materials available for parents.

No matter where you are or when you’re there, Turtle Diary will always be there. Kids can master both problem areas and areas needed to challenge kids. Wouldn’t you rather have the kids be mesmerized by the games than pull teeth as they actively protest their schoolwork?

Simply download the app on your tablet, iPad, or iPad. Your kids will be able to join in on the ultimate fun of Turtle Diary. No matter what your busy situation is, kids can always have Turtle Diary with them. They can master their current subjects with a high quotient of fun and gamification.

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With Turtle Diary, we’ve done the hard work for you. Common Core Standards used in their classrooms will be reinforced with our games, lessons, and quizzes.

All of the fun we offer on our site is aligned with the newer vision of mathematics and other subjects. By sticking with Turtle Diary, you can let us handle the hard work of explaining Common Core. Sometimes this method may seem foreign to you if you’ve learned with “old math.” In fact, you might just learn along with your student!

Students have the necessary skills to be able to compete in a competitive world with an increased focus on STEM. Cognitive demand reigns higher than rote learning, and students are able to quickly visualize and manipulate numbers. They can “see” the inner workings of the problems, especially in math, and learn to mentally work the numbers.

Turtle Diary helps students to learn and practice these concepts, especially if they aren’t quite grasping it in the classroom. You’ll be amazed at how quickly your student picks up the new concepts. Just remember that they’ve never learned it the “old” way. The Common Core way is THE way for their learning journey.

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24/7 access to great games while still building a foundation for learning? Welcome to Turtle Diary, where you can have it all! Edutainment at its finest is alive and well here.

Students can access our platform from wherever they go on whatever device they have. All you need is an internet connection.

Once you enter Turtle Diary, the world is yours to explore. From learning videos to quizzes to entertaining games and multiplayer challenges, students will never be bored. Turtle Diary offers students amazing graphics, sounds, and intense gaming. This allows students a chance to breathe while learning in a stress-free environment.

With new games being added all the time, your student will never get bored with Turtle Diary. And since our games align with Common Core, the more they play, the more they’ll learn. The more they learn, the better their classroom experience will be because the information will click with repeated exposure.

Even though there may seem to be an overwhelming amount of games, the idea is to give students the choice. All of the games in a grade level reinforce the same necessary concepts, but just in a different way. Students will be practicing the same ideas over and over again as they choose from one fun game to another. We dare them to be bored!

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About FreeGames.org

Hi, my name is Gaz, welcome to my website. I've been developing free games and websites since 2006. My previous site, TheGameHomepage.com, was visited by 65 million people. I've also developed over a hundred web games and they've been played somewhere around a billion times! I picked up some cool awards along the way including a Guinness World Record and a BAFTA Special Commendation. What started as a hobby has turned in to my passion and over the past fourteen years I've learned a lot about web games. I've used this experience along with some new ideas to make this website, FreeGames.org, my fresh take on a free game website. With this project there are a number of things that I set out to achieve:

1. Genuinely Free 😄

2. online 🌐.

Apps have been the most popular way to play casual games for a while now. I think there are some compelling reasons to give online games another shot though. For instance it can be tiresome installing and deleting many apps to find the game you want. It can be a drag waiting for them to install when you just want to quickly play something new. They can fill up your device. They can only be played on one type of device (iPhone, Android etc.). Online Games solve all of these problems. I'm not saying that online games should replace apps - I think there are great reasons for both and they can happily exist alongside each other 🧡

3. On any Device 📱

I wanted to create a consistent experience across all devices. Often web games will only work on computers and if you visit on a mobile device they don't play. Other times if you visit the website on desktop then mobile you are presented with completely different games. I wanted to make a consistent experience on any device so if you play a fun game on your computer in the afternoon you can come back later on your phone to play it in bed. Or you want to show a friend you can pull it up on their tablet. All of the games on the homepage of this site are compatible on any device.

4. Scale to your Screen Size 👀

It is frustrating when you are trying to play a game but its size is completely different to your screen. All the games on FreeGames.org scale to fit any size screen so you can enjoy them on any device.

5. Fast Loading ⚡

I want players to be able to click (or tap) and play instantly. That's why I've used the latest cloud hosting technology to serve it all over the world from a location near you. I've also worked hard with site optimizations to make everything work as fast as possible. This is another advantage of removing video adverts as it means you can start playing your chosen game much faster or try out many different games to find a good one without watching an advert each time.

6. User Feedback 💭

I continuously update this website with new games and improvements. Rather than guess or assume what you want I have a secret weapon - I ask! You will notice feedback buttons and often short surveys popping up around the site. If you have any thoughts, issues or ideas don't keep them to yourself - let me know. I read every piece of feedback submitted and use it all to help decide what changes and features to implement to both the website and games.

7. No Downloads 👍

All of our titles can be played instantly with no need to download. Why fill up your phone or laptop with downloaded games you aren't even sure you will like yet when you can play them like this?

8. Wholesome / Family Friendly 👪

This website is family friendly. The games here have been selected/developed with the aim to create a positive experience that is appropriate for all ages.

9. The Best Games 🏆

Last on my list and most important of all is great games. I develop and hunt down the most fun games for you to play.

Hopefully these features will mean that you have a good experience on FreeGames.org. If you have any comments please do feel free to get in contact with me. You can do so via my contact form or facebook page . Last of all I'll leave you with my project motto which I have stuck on the wall next to my computer:

"Create the best free games website for the players"

Thank you for reading my manifesto and for using FreeGames.org. Have fun!

❤️ Gaz Thomas (website creator)

This is a game built with machine learning. You draw, and a neural network tries to guess what you’re drawing. Of course, it doesn’t always work. But the more you play with it, the more it will learn. So far we have trained it on a few hundred concepts, and we hope to add more over time. We made this as an example of how you can use machine learning in fun ways. Watch the video below to learn about how it works, and

Built by Jonas Jongejan, Henry Rowley, Takashi Kawashima, Jongmin Kim, Nick Fox-Gieg, with friends at Google Creative Lab and Data Arts Team.

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The best online games and puzzles you can play daily in 2024

Challenge yourself and have fun each day with these games that are not all simply wordle clones..

It's hard to believe that it was only in late 2021 that Wordle blew up. The social aspect of sharing results and stickiness of the one-round-per-day format proved to be a winning formula. So it's little surprise that many other daily games have found success by going down this route. Some are as fun or even more enjoyable than Wordle . Others are actually educational, even helping you learn about the makeup of a country's exports. Yet more will have you scratching your head as you try desperately to remember the title of a movie based on some stills. In any case, there are many, many daily online games out there. Since most are free to play, we're here to help you figure out which of the best online games and puzzles are worth your time.

Connections

Box office game, coffee golf, nyt mini crossword, pile-up poker, the best online games and puzzles for 2024.

One of The New York Times' more recent online word games, Connections   was an instant hit when it first launched. The game presents you with a grid of 16 cards. Each usually has a word written on it but this can also be a single letter, a number or, in the case of an April 1 game, emoji.

The aim is to find out how to categorize the cards into four groups. There's only one correct answer, and the groups tend to be of varying difficulty, ranging from the yellow group (for instance, metal elements or types of flowers) to the purple (homophones for names of philosophers or what the letter "O" might mean).

There's no timer, but you can only make three incorrect guesses before you lose and the answer is revealed. I've played every single day since the game debuted and while it's always nice to get a perfect game with no mistakes, having a long winning streak is very satisfying. My best so far is 32 victories in a row. — Kris Holt, Contributing Reporter

Framed   is one of the earliest and best Wordle clones. It's a simple enough concept: You'll see up to six stills from a movie ranging from obscure to more obvious, and your task is to figure out which film they're from. You get one guess per still.

The answer field has a helpful autocomplete function, so if you don't know the full name of the movie you can still win. A built-in stat tracker is handy too. Framed is a way for film buffs to show off their knowledge, or perhaps get egg on their face when they somehow fail to recognize one of the most popular movies of all time. It's good fun either way, especially for the Letterboxd fanatics out there. — K.H.

Box Office Game tasks you with guessing the five highest-grossing movies from a given weekend. You see each film’s distributor and gross revenue by default, but you can spend from a points bank to unveil additional clues, such as its lead actors, director, tagline and the like. The goal is to guess each flick with as little info as possible — though, really, this isn’t the kind of thing where “winning” is the point. (At least, that’s what I tell myself.)

Instead, for film freaks and people who spend too much time on Letterboxd , the fun is in discovering just how deep your well of movie memories stretches. Much of the time, it won’t be far at all. Other days, you might be amazed at just how readily you can recall Gone in 60 Seconds despite only seeing it once 20 years ago. If nothing else, all of this is a good way to brainstorm ideas for your next movie night. — Jeff Dunn, Senior Reporter

Costcodle is like a cross between Wordle and The Price is Right . Each day it gives you a different product from Costco’s enormous food database , and you get six attempts to guess its price. You can usually finish it in a matter of seconds, so it’s mostly empty calories, but it’s a fun way to check just how much information you’re retaining while combing the aisles of your grocery store. You wouldn’t think it’d be possible to enjoy guessing how much four bags of organic brussel sprouts cost, but such is the power of killing time on the internet. — J.D.

Here's something very different from the other entries on this list. Coffee Golf is actually a video game (free on iOS and Android ). As the name suggests, you can finish your daily run while sipping a hot morning beverage. Every day, there's a new five-hole course set on an open landscape for you to play. You can complete it in any order, but the aim is to score as few strokes as possible, so planning your route is as important as nailing your shots.

I enjoy playing Coffee Golf early in my day because it gets my brain starting to work in different ways than if I only played the word-based games on this list. I have to look around the course and strategize a bit before starting my round. It's been a fun addition to my daily routine, and it certainly beats doomscrolling while having my first cup of joe. — K.H.

While it might not help you become entirely fluent in a language by itself, Duolingo is a very useful way to learn handy phrases just by checking in and taking a two-minute lesson every day. The more you practice, the better, obviously. I imagine my French would be at a much higher standard if I did more than one lesson a day, but there's not much I can do about that if I run out of hearts, which happens often. (I could pay for the premium plan, but eh.)

The gamification of Duolingo helps make it sticky enough to return to on a daily basis — the many, many emails and notifications you'll get if you don't turn those off will push you toward checking in as well. Those have all helped me maintain a streak of over 600 days, with maybe only a dozen streak freezes used in that time. (Hot tip: if you miss a lesson, you can change the date on your phone or computer to back to the previous day and help maintain your streak.)

Duolingo can't really compete with more intense language learning methods like full immersion or taking a class a couple of times a week. But as a way to help you grok some of the basics before taking a trip to Paris or Quebec, or to refresh your memory on all the Spanish you may have forgotten since high school, it's a decent option that doesn't require a hefty time investment. And, hey, it can be pretty fun too, especially when the app lets you play a mini-game instead of basic text translation. — K.H.

The New York Times Mini crossword turned 10 years old in 2024. While many fans of the newspaper's classic main crossword turn their nose up at the Mini, the itty bitty puzzle has endured for those passionate about word games online. It has a die-hard community of fans, many of whom try to race through it as quickly as possible.

The Mini has a five-by-five grid most days with between three and five clues in each direction. Puzzles on Saturdays and occasionally other days are larger, usually with a seven-by-seven grid. It's a crossword, at the end of the day, so it doesn't require much explaining. Thankfully, it's rare to see a rebus (which allows the constructor to include a word or several letters in a single square) in the Mini.

I try to beat the standard puzzle in less than a minute. There aren't many better feelings in playing daily games than when you figure out all of the Across clues in the first pass. My personal Mini record stands at 14 seconds. How about yours? — K.H.

Tradle   belongs to the third- or fourth-order clones which bear so little relation to Wordle as to make the similar naming convention essentially false advertising. For this and other reasons, I love it. It only hints at a relationship to Wordle in so far as both involve guessing things and then receiving abstruse feedback on the accuracy of the guess.

Tradle — a game which was briefly addictive to myself and sent several members of my friends' Discord server — provides only a gross domestic product, and a colorful visualization of what types of products account for that GDP (it sort of resembles hard drive disc space analyzers .) Where guesses in Wordle are rewarded by confirming the presence and potential position of letters, Tradle gives the distance to, and approximate direction of, the correct country from the incorrectly guessed one.

Occasionally the solutions are complete bullshit: I mean, sincerely, who besides the estimated 2,100 people living there has ever heard of Norfolk Island? But even failing the puzzle results in learning something cool — for instance, the existence of the self-governing Australian territory of Norfolk Island. — Avery Ellis, Deputy Editor

Now for something a little different to add to your rotation. Pile-Up Poker is a relatively new kid on the block, but it's already the most-played game on the Puzzmo ( Really Bad Chess, SpellTower ) platform on a daily basis.

The aim is to place as many high-scoring poker hands as you can on a four-by-four grid. In each of the four draws you get per game, you get five cards and you can place four of them anywhere on the grid. The remaining card goes to a discard pile. Each row and column counts as a hand, as do the four corners. If all nine of those are valid, the discard pile is counted as a hand too. The more valid hands you play, the more your multiplier stacks up to boost your total score, which is given as a dollar value. You can play up to five games (or deals) a day.

You can compete to earn a top spot on the leaderboards, but there's a neat community aspect to Pile-Up Poker too. The Puzzmo team has been unveiling some fun extras as the players collectively hit shared poker pot milestones. The next target is a whopping $1 trillion in total winnings. — K.H.

The true titan of online daily games, players made 4.8 billion attempts to solve Wordle   in 2023. The game, which you can play on The New York Times website and Games app for free, follows a simple format. You have six chances to guess a five-letter word. Gray letters aren't in the word. If a letter is yellow, it's in the word but you have it in the wrong spot. Green letters are right where they're supposed to be.

Making it easy to share an emoji-friendly colored grid of these guesses in group chats and on social media helped Wordle become incredibly popular. A tidal wave of clones quickly showed up, many of which appear on this list, but Wordle is   still a fun way to give your brain a quick workout every day. — K.H.

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