Daily, I play Wordle and 7 Little Words when I first get up, but I was wondering what other types of quick games like that that people play regularly.

  • @hadrian@beehaw.org
    3•2 years ago

    Worldle is fun - you get a country outline and need to guess which country it is, plus its neighbouring countries, capital, etc.

    Also Wheretaken, which is similar but you get a photograph rather than the country outline.

    • Kichae
      2•2 years ago

      My girlfriend and I do like 10 of these every night.

      Turns out I don’t know anything about music before the 1980s, nor after the 1990s.

      • Skullvalanche
        0•2 years ago

        Ha! I play every night with my wife, and routinely quip that the 1970s are my kryptonite. I don’t know shit about them.

        Oddly, I’m decent at the 60s and 50s cuz of my mom.

        There’s a #TeamHeardle group on Mastodon that’s pretty active daily comparing notes and commiserating about losses.

        Also worth knowing: the person who runs heardledecades.com is in the UK, so a lot of the games skew heavily towards UK charts.

    • Catra
      1•2 years ago

      This is fantastic for my love of 80s music, thank you!

  • @idiotexe@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    I like to play the NYT mini crossword every day. I like asking other people for advice on it when I get stuck so it’s both a fun daily game and a good way to do a bit of socializing.

  • @Ethereal87@beehaw.org
    2•2 years ago

    Daily Dadish (iOS linked) has been a cute daily platforming challenge. Outside of super tricky levels, I can usually get the “best” time to collect the star in 10m or so, and the controls are pretty solid for being a touchscreen.

    • OOFshoot
      1•2 years ago

      I play Mech Arena every day. Usually only a couple of games. I never played Overwatch so I can’t compare them, but I’m enjoying Mech Arena so far.

  • DJDarren
    1•2 years ago

    I’m a big fan of Redactle.

    My best score so far is 1 guess. Can’t remember what clue I spotted in the pre-cleared words, but guessed that the answer was ‘Ball’, and it was. On average though, I’m closer to 60 guesses or so.

      • DJDarren
        1•2 years ago

        It’s an absolute time suck if you move from just doing the shared daily puzzle to just going ham on random articles. I love it immensely.

  • @noodlejetski@beehaw.org
    1•2 years ago

    I do NY Times crosswords. quite challenging as an ESL, but very satisfying. so far I’ve only been able to solve Monday or Tuesday ones, and I still use the “check puzzle” helper to see how many words I got wrong when I’m stuck, but I don’t have to look up stuff online anymore!

    • @ianw@beehaw.org
      2•2 years ago

      Yeah, they’re tough. My wife and I do them together and can usually do up to Wednesdays without too much help, then things get ugly.

      • @noodlejetski@beehaw.org
        1•2 years ago

        there’s another layer of difficulty when you’re not from the US, as it often requires you to know stuff from US history and culture that you don’t learn and know about abroad. like tHE FUCK KIND OF A THREE LETTER ORG DID NIXON CREATE, WATERGATE IS LONGER THAN THREE LETTERS