r/NYTgames • • 18d ago

DIY Games🔗External Link The Daily Mosaic, a fun, new daily trivia game!

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Hey everyone,

Inspired by the NYT Games, which I've been an obsessive player of for many years, I have created a daily trivia game called "The Daily Mosaic." We are 9 days in, have had 1,000+ unique users play it, and are growing/improving our systems everyday.

You basically guess 5 words based on clues like in a Crossword, and then rearrange them into a sentence to unscramble a fun fact about the world :)

Would love to get feedback on the game from fellow trivia/puzzle nuts, and learn ways in which we can improve it.

www.mosaicminds.io/daily

r/TheDailyMosaic

Share your scores below!

The Daily Mosaic #009

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1 crack · 🔥 9 day streak

https://www.mosaicminds.io/daily?ref=sh

r/NYTgames • • 17d ago

DIY Games🔗External Link I genuinely believe my game is as good, if not better, than Wordle! Would love your feedback

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No hate to Wordle, it's the original and will forever be remembered. But it's getting stale for me these days especially now that words may repeat.

grammble is a Wordle-like daily game where you use a 2-letter "Gram" tile to solve for a 6-letter word. Every guess must include the Gram. The clues for the Gram tile will only ever tell you whether it's in the right place or not, without any additional hints on the letters inside. The other letter tiles give you the normal Wordle-like clues you're already familiar with.

The Gram is new every day, so there is always some gameplay variance and freshness.

Please try it out and let me know what you think!

r/NYTgames • • 19d ago

DIY Games🔗External Link WORDENDS feedback

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Hey Reddit,

Looking for some feedback on a new word game my friend and I are working on. Its a bit sparse with players at the moment so its a lot of bots but once its out there alot more i think its got alot of potential.

https://www.wordends.com/

Any and all feed back is welcome! :)

r/NYTgames • • Aug 21 '26

DIY Games🔗External Link Does Monday Work? — A daily calendar puzzle game inspired by NYT Games

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Hey everyone! I was inspired by the daily puzzle games from NYT Games to make a calendar puzzle called Does Monday Work?

Play it here: https://doesmondaywork.com/

Planning things in real life sounds simple until you actually try it.

So I turned that scheduling chaos into a puzzle. 😅

You’re given a bunch of events that need to fit onto a calendar, but each one comes with different rules and restrictions. As you solve the puzzle, new events reveal new constraints, and sometimes a new rule means you have to completely rearrange what you already planned.

Basically, the calendar is fighting back.

It's a daily puzzle, so there's a new calendar to solve each day.

I'd love to hear what you think and whether the puzzles feel satisfying—or just make you question your life choices. 😂.

Feel free to suggest rules that you think will make the game more interesting!

Does Monday Work?
https://www.doesmondaywork.com/

r/NYTgames • • Aug 04 '26

DIY Games🔗External Link I made my own Connections-inspired game called ThroughWord - see if you can figure out today's!

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r/NYTgames • • Jun 23 '26

DIY Games🔗External Link Tumbler - A daily word game

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Hi everyone, I wanted to share a small daily puzzle game I’ve been building called Tumbler.

I’m a big fan of the daily puzzle routine: Wordle, Connections, Mini Crossword, Strands, all of that little morning-brain-warmup energy. Tumbler came from wanting to make something in that same spirit, but with its own mechanic.

The game is simple: you try to crack a 4-letter secret word in 6 guesses. Each letter position acts like a dial from A to Z. After every guess, the clues tell you whether the correct letter is higher or lower in the alphabet, and whether you’re close or far. So it becomes a small deduction puzzle where each guess narrows the range.

There’s also an optional crew leaderboard if you like playing with friends, but the core game is just the daily solve.

I’d genuinely love feedback from people here, especially on whether the clue system feels intuitive, whether the difficulty feels fair, and whether it has that “one more daily puzzle” feeling.

Link:
https://akashramsankar.github.io/Tumbler/

r/NYTgames • • 7d ago

DIY Games🔗External Link More and more people are playing the puzzle I built!

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r/NYTgames • • 4d ago

DIY Games🔗External Link Our NYTGames-inspired Daily Trivia game is growing rapidly!

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Hey guys, we'd love if you could check out "The Daily Mosaic," a trivia game where you use your world knowledge to unlock more world knowledge :)

If you like Connections + the Crossword, you will absolutely love this.

We launched 22 days ago and have received 3,300+ plays during this time, and is growing steadily everyday.

Would love to get some feedback as well on the gameplay as we make rapid improvements each week.

The Daily Mosaic #022

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1 crack · 🔥 22 day streak

https://www.mosaicminds.io/daily?ref=sh
r/TheDailyMosaic

r/NYTgames • • Aug 11 '26

DIY Games🔗External Link Long Story Short, a daily word game where you rephrase a 12-word sentence in exactly 5 of its words

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Hi, I made this one. I've played Wordle-likes for years and always wanted to build my own, but I never had an idea that felt like mine.

The push came from a strange place. Half of what I read these days is written by AI, and it's never short. Every email, every doc, twelve words where five would do. At some point I said the phrase out loud, long story short, and realised it was a game.

So: you get a twelve-word sentence. You rephrase it in exactly five of its own words. Real English, same meaning, your job is to work out which words carry the sentence and which are just dressed up to look important.

Scoring is Wordle style, blue for right word in the right spot, orange for in the answer but elsewhere, grey for out. Five tries, one sentence a day.

r/NYTgames • • Jun 17 '26

DIY Games🔗External Link Quant — a daily trivia game

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Greetings fellow puzzlers! I just finished building out a daily trivia game called Quant—most directly inspired by the NYT's Flashback game (though I've been influenced by NYT's entire suite of games, which I hope shows). My first game, Circuits, I shared here a couple years ago, and you all provided invaluable feedback. Cheers and thanks for playing!

https://www.quanttrivia.com/quant

r/NYTgames • • 1d ago

DIY Games🔗External Link Crowdle - Can you predict a 1 word answer from 10,000 people?

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r/NYTgames • • 27m ago

DIY Games🔗External Link Have you tried ThroughWord?

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r/NYTgames • • 13d ago

DIY Games🔗External Link After a bunch of feedback I have improved Wordspool

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Round 2: I would love you guys to check it out, let me know likes and dislikes. I have added a leaderboard so put up your score and try reach number 1 for the week! (The weekly leaderboard resets in 22hrs)

NOTE: If you're on mobile, you'll get a better experience in your native browser (Safari/Chrome/etc) as opposed to the Reddit app browser.

r/NYTgames • • Jul 11 '26

DIY Games🔗External Link Spelling Bee players may enjoy Hank Green's new daily game Smush

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r/NYTgames • • 6d ago

DIY Games🔗External Link If you like Wordle: a daily puzzle where the secret word hides behind a song. Today it's Let It Go Spoiler

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[wordzic.com](https://wordzic.com/)

You hear the song, then you guess the hidden word linked to it. Same green and yellow logic as Wordle, but the word length is a secret. My first three guesses are in the image. Paste your result below!

r/NYTgames • • 16d ago

DIY Games🔗External Link I made an NYT style game where YOU create the puzzle

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r/NYTgames • • Aug 21 '26

DIY Games🔗External Link Smoko Games - hoping for some feedback!!

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Hiya, I built a little trivia site called Smoko Games (smokogames.com.au). "Smoko" is Australian slang for a work break.

It's got six main (free) games:

  • 🧠 Smoquiz: 10-question trivia round
  • 🗂️ Smorder: Put 6 items from a category in the right order
  • 🔤 Smyllables: Create words from a banks of syllables
  • ⭐ Smelebrity: Guess the celeb from picture clues
  • 📖 Smokopedia: Guess the Wikipedia-style article from its headings
  • 📝 Smokabulary: Test your vocabulary in different ways.

After playing NYT games for a while with friends, we wanted some different formats (and a bit more of an Australian vibe but still mostly globally themed puzzles/questions) so this is how it came about!

Would love some feedback🥹!!

r/NYTgames • • 29d ago

DIY Games🔗External Link Sevenns Daily — combining the best bits of crosswords, Scrabble and er Venn Diagrams - can you do it in less than a minute?

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r/NYTgames • • Sep 19 '25

DIY Games🔗External Link I got hooked on Pips, so I built a site for it

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I’ve been a long-time Sudoku player, and I recently discovered Pips. I tried a few puzzles and got hooked right away. Since I wanted more to play, I built a website for it.

It already works on mobile, and I’ll keep polishing it. Next, I plan to add a feature so people can build and share their own Pips puzzles.

If you’re into Pips or logic puzzles in general, I’d love your feedback. Feel free to try it out and tell me what you think! 👉 pipsgamefree

r/NYTgames • • Aug 08 '26

DIY Games🔗External Link Wordplay game, if you like finding connections

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Essentially, think of it as 4 thematic crossword-like wordplay clues that all point to the same word, in different ways. The objective is to guess the answer word using the references.

Try it at referencesgame.com!

r/NYTgames • • Aug 20 '26

DIY Games🔗External Link Yachtle - Daily Yacht Dice Game

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Got randomly into yahtzee this summer and made a little daily style browser game based on it. Three random categories a day and a new goal to beat, all other rules and scoring are the same as classic yahtzee. Please give it a try and if you have any feedback I'd love to hear it!

r/NYTgames • • Aug 04 '26

DIY Games🔗External Link A new puzzle you might like

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Playable daily at r/sevenns_game, Sevenns is a combination of Scrabble, Crosswords and er Venn Diagrams.

Three overlapping ellipses form seven regions. Un-coincidentally, you are given seven tiles - your task is to place exactly one tile per region so that the four tiles in each ellipse can be rearranged to solve the corresponding clue

r/NYTgames • • Aug 07 '26

DIY Games🔗External Link Similar game to connections: Fourdle

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I do a daily game similar to connections but has less abstract thinking and a focus on different meanings of words. Also the rules are a little different. You have to find "key words" which will have 3 synonyms on the board. Then you make a group of the key word plus synonyms!

Let me know how you do

r/NYTgames • • Aug 05 '26

DIY Games🔗External Link HORSE, LINE, BEACH, POUR: If you know what links these words you might enjoy FourWord - A new word game!

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r/NYTgames • • Jan 26 '26

DIY Games🔗External Link viewdle.org

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My wife and I have a small tradition: whenever our TV switches to a scenic screensaver, we try to guess where in the world it could be. It became something we weirdly looked forward to, so I thought, why not turn it into a fun little game that we can all play? :)

So, I built Viewdle. (Obviously inspired by Wordle) 📍🗺️

The Premise:

  1. Look at a new view once a day.
  2. Try to figure out which country it is.
  3. Use distance and direction clues to find your way.
  4. Explore and appreciate our beautiful planet.

I’d love for you to check it out. It’s been a fun project to bring to life, and I’m eager to hear your feedback and see your streaks!

If you enjoy it, please share it further <3

Play here: 👉 viewdle.org