Guides
Background on the daily puzzle genre, and honest recommendations rather than the same eight names every list repeats.
What is a dle game?
Where the "-dle" suffix came from, the four rules almost every one of them follows, and why the midnight reset matters more than it looks like it should.
Best Wordle alternatives
Eight games picked for being different from each other rather than from Wordle, ordered from closest to the original to furthest away.
Best starting words
What actually makes an opener good, why the "best" word changes on hard mode, and how to build a two-word opening that beats guessing.
Games like Connections
Grouping puzzles in the shape of NYT Connections, from straight clones to versions built on films, music, Minecraft and pure category logic.
Geography games
Country shapes, flags, street view and distance clues. The geography branch of the daily puzzle genre, sorted by what each one asks you to know.
Heardle alternatives
The original Heardle went offline after Spotify bought it. These are the daily music guessing games that carried the format on.