About Good Games
Good Games is a site of daily puzzles: word games and number games, a new set every day, free and with no sign-up. It is made by one independent developer, and it runs in your browser with nothing to install.
The games
- Crossword — ten grids a day, from a warm-up to a brutal one.
- Word of the Day — five hidden words, from four letters to eight, with six tries each.
- Arrow Words — four grids with the clues written inside them.
- Word Search — four grids, and the letters left over spell a mystery word.
- Themed Word Search — one grid a day, every word from the same category.
- Hangman — five words, six wrong letters allowed on each.
- Pairs — five boards of face-down cards, each word to be matched with its clue.
- Lookalikes — five boards of face-down cards, the words more alike at every level.
- Sudoku — three grids, from a gentle one to one that needs an x-wing.
- Numbers Game — four draws of six numbers and a target, from one done in two steps to one that needs all six.
- Bridges — four boards of islands to join, from one done by counting to one that needs three guesses or more.
- Calcudoku — three 6×6 grids of cages to add, subtract, multiply and divide, from one done by its pairs to one that reads cages and lines together.
Every game climbs in difficulty through the day, so the first level is a warm-up and the last is a real test.
A new day, every day
A new day of every game starts at midnight UTC. Your progress stays in your browser, so a day left half done is still there when you come back, and every day already published keeps its own address in the archive. The site is written in eight languages — English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Indonesian and Turkish — and each game is offered in the languages its puzzles have been built for.
How the puzzles are made
Every puzzle is built by a program rather than copied from a book. The word games start from word lists made from open sources, credited in the privacy policy, and ranked by how common each word is: the easy levels draw on everyday words and the hard ones reach further down the list. The grids are filled by software that checks every word fits and every crossing agrees.
The clues and the word-search themes are written with software help and checked before they are used; a word that cannot be clued fairly is left out. Each sudoku is built from the rules and checked by a solver, so it has exactly one solution, and its level is set by the hardest technique the solver needed to reach it.
Free, and paid for by advertising
There are no accounts and nothing to buy. The site carries advertising, kept clear of the grid and the clock, and that is what pays for it. What that involves is set out in the privacy policy.
Getting in touch
A wrong clue, a bug, or a game you would like to see: write to [email protected], in English or in French.
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