Daily Games

Played: since 2022

March 10, 2026

I currently play:

  • enclose.horse — since January. I really enjoy this one! It’s fun and simple.
  • Number Crunch — this month I got hyperfocused on it. A friend of mine is very good at it, so I’ve been trying to crack the secret strategy. It’s mostly just sucking up heinous amounts of time, but the game itself is pretty zen. I was similarly hypnotized by 2048 back in the day.
  • Parseword — just learned about this via The Independent Variable. I’ve never heard of cryptic crosswords before, but this is really cool!

January 2024

I currently play:

  • Framed – guess the movie based on six screenshots
  • NYT Connections – group words into groups of four

I used to play:

  • Wordle
  • Worldle – guess the country based on its shape
  • Chrono – put historical events in chronological order

Worldle

I play Worldle because two friends play it, and we share our results every day. They are much better at geography than I am. We’ve been playing long enough (months) that the solutions are repeating, and I still don’t remember the shapes. On the occasion that an easy one comes up (Canada, Japan, Italy) I celebrate. Most of the time, I’m guessing and narrowing down my choices by the distance hints. This game makes me realize I have no idea what countries look like, even if I could point them out on a map.

Chrono

I’m in a discord server with the creators of Chrono, and some of us share our results every day. I do much better at this than with Worldle—most of the time, I get the right answer in the three allotted guesses. However, usually I don’t remember the actual years. I’ve played long enough that I see the same events come up repeatedly, but I couldn’t tell you what century they happened in for the most part.

I can’t remember why I stopped playing the original Wordle (probably losing my combo), but I think it was sometime shortly after its acquisition by the NYT.

I think if I didn’t have a small circle of people to directly share my results with, I wouldn’t still be playing these. Posting into the ether (e.g. on twitter) isn’t the same; the point is to compare your results each day.