Daily Educational Puzzle Games
Are you a Wordle fan? The daily Wordle is wildly popular and has spawned dozens of spinoffs. Not only is the word game fun, it’s fun learning! And, there are plenty more fun learning games to try with your students. Here are 50 suggestions for daily online games to use in your classroom or homeschool.
Obviously, no one can play all fifty of these puzzle games daily. I’ve included word games, math games, art games, history games, logic games, and general trivia games. My advice is to encourage your kids choose a few that sound interesting and try them out.
Generally, these are most suitable for middle school and up, but you can certainly introduce these to younger students who express interest.
Word Games
The following are daily online word games.
Your job is to guess pairs of rhyming words that form a nonsensical phrase. For example: A caffeinated drink made of semi-molten rock. Answer: Lava Java.
Word Connection is a word game where you have to link a chain of four relevant words together. Each word is related to the previous and/or the word after it. For example: Senior PROM KING Kong
The idea of Semantle is to guess the secret word. Semantle will tell you how semantically similar it thinks your word is to the secret word. Unlike that other word game, it’s not about the spelling; it’s about the meaning. This game is HARD!
The object of this game is to guess 7 words. There are 7 definition clues offered, along with how many letters the word contains. You must use the provided letter combinations to create the 7 words.
Just like it sounds! A daily themed word search.
There are 3 daily puzzles of increasing difficulty. The easy puzzle uses 4-letter words. Medium is 5-letter words. The hard mode is challenging, but uses words within the Grade 5 vocabulary. You have six tries to guess the daily word.
Score the most points while clearing the playing area by using the letters on the cards to spell words.
Given root words, short definitions, parts of speech and the number of letters in each word, players work to complete the missing word at two levels. Speed counts!
You have to find as many words as you can that fit a pattern, and beat the clock.
Games Similar to Wordle
The following are daily Wordle-type games.
Inspired by foodstuffs and chefs, this game allows you to guess the food words in six tries. How many food-related responses can you think of? Try playing Foodle to test your definitions and knowledge of cuisine.
The magical Harry Potter version of the popular word-guessing game.
The goal is to guess the two crossing words in as few guesses as possible. After each guess you’ll get a clue.
You have to guess 2 hidden words in seven tries and the color of the letters changes to show how close you are.
Another Wordle spinoff—try to guess the three words in 8 tries.
You guessed it! Guess four words at a time with this game.
Guess six words arranged in a waffle pattern. Rearrange the letters into the correct words, horizontally and vertically. Drag the letters anywhere on the board and they will change color to let you know if they are in the correct position.
Just like it sounds. Guess 5-letter words to complete a 5×5 square.
Avoid guessing the hidden word in as many tries as possible. This is actually harder than it seems.
You have six attempts to guess sentence patterns and phrases. The color of the tiles will change to indicate how close your guesses are to the correct answer after each one.
Math and Science Games
These games include both Wordle-style math and science games and daily math games in a completely different style.
Like Wordle, but with math. Each guess is a calculation.
You get 6 tries to guess the hidden equation and are given one hint, the value! All your guesses need to equate to the value to be accepted.
Guess the prime in 6 tries. After each guess, the color of the tiles will change to show how close your guess was to the prime.
Make sums using the tiles at the bottom to reach the target number at the top, in 5 steps or fewer. You can use each number tile once, but you may not need all the tiles.
Add, subtract, multiply, or divide to get as close to the target number as you can. You don’t have to use all 6 numbers.
This logic-based game is based on Sudoku, but with a twist. Delete numbers so each row/column adds up to the target number at the right/bottom.
Think of it as science Wordle—a guessing jumble for every nerd.
Geography Games
The following games all relate to geography and involve guessing, but not necessarily with limited turns.
Your goal is to guess a mystery country using the fewest number of guesses. Each incorrect guess will appear on the globe with a color indicating how close it is to the Mystery Country. The hotter the color, the closer you are to the answer.
Guess the Wordle in 6 guesses based on the shape of the mystery country. After each guess, you will have the distance, the direction and the proximity from your guess to the target location.
Try to guess which city is shown in a satellite image. Each incorrect guess will cause the satellite image to be zoomed out further. You will be shown the direction and distance of the correct city from your guess.
Every day you’ll see a different treemap of the exports for a particular country. Each rectangle represents the share of a given product proportional to its percentage of exports for that country. After each guess, you will have the distance, the direction and the proximity from your guess and the target country.
Your goal is to guess a country or territory’s flag within as few tries as possible. After each guess, you will be shown a similar flag that displays which portion of your guess shares the same color as the answer. To make guessing more feasible, the palette has been reduced to 10 common colors.
You have to uncover the five-day weather forecast for a city. There’s a new city from around the world every day. Cities might repeat, but the weather will always be different!
History and General Facts Games
These history and trivia games are not all Wordle-type games, but all offer a new game daily.
You have three tries to put the listed events in chronological order.
Place the card presented to the right (after) or left (before) of a card based on when you believe the event happened. The date is revealed when the card is placed.
You’ll start with three random events that happened in a specific year of history. The goal is to guess which year they all occurred. You have 8 tries to find the right answer.
Guess the year this happened on this day in history. You have 6 tries to guess.
Guess the Factle in five tries. You are asked a question and given a variety of possible answers. For each guess, rank what you think are the top 5 answers.
Same as Factle, only the questions are sports related.
Five new questions each day. Select the correct answer to each question and receive a score out of 5 possible points.
Arts and Music Games
The daily games listed below relate to the arts.
Guess the Artle artist’s name in 4 attempts. Each guess must be a valid artist’s name. After an incorrect guess, you will get different work of art to help you guess.
Daily Jigsaw Puzzle: Paintings
Put together a jigsaw puzzle by clicking and dragging pieces together to reveal a painting.
A musical guessing game with a variety of genre choices. Listen to an audio clip and choose the correct album from 4 offered choices.
Guess the melody in 5 tries. After each guess, the color of the tiles will change to show how close your guess was to the melody.
A Wordle-style game using book-themed words.
Logic Games
These games involve pattern recognition and problem solving.
A pattern finding game in which the object is to find all 6 SETs in the 12 cards displayed.
Clear all of the tiles before running out of moves. Choose a tile from the bottom row to clear it. Any matching tiles connected to it will go too. The tiles above will fall down to fill in the space left behind, and new connections will form between matching tiles.
Find all the differences between two pictures in the least amount of time possible.
Solve daily updated chess puzzles with three levels of difficulty. To enter the solution, click on the desired piece and drag it to the target square. In some puzzles you have to enter a series of moves.
A Clue-type game of deduction where you solve mysteries using logical thinking skills.
This logic game involves filling a grid with colored squares.
Daily Online Games for Fun Learning
All of these online games are a fantastic way for your child to learn while having fun. Give your kids the opportunity to try out as many of these games as they like and decide which they enjoy the most.
They may enjoy competing with others, tracking their daily scores, or just playing occasionally when they need to take a break from a highly focused task.
There is one additional game I want to mention that is not a daily game, but would fall under the logic game category.
Alex Bellos’s Monday Puzzle is offered every other Monday and the archives go back to 2015!
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