Puzzles

About these puzzles

Every puzzle here has one answer, and you reach it by working it out, not by luck. El Word hides one five-letter word a day, the same for everyone, and gives you six guesses to find it. Every past puzzle is in the archive. Sudoku runs from Easy to Extreme with 500 puzzles at each level, plus notes, undo and hints that explain the next step instead of just filling a square. The Queens Puzzle asks for one queen in every row, column and colored region, with no two touching, across 1,000 boards. The jigsaw puzzles are famous public-domain paintings, from Van Gogh’s The Starry Night to Hokusai’s Great Wave, in 12 to 150 pieces.

There’s no account to make and nothing to install. Your streaks, times and games in progress are saved in this browser, so you can stop halfway and pick up later. Every puzzle works with a mouse, a keyboard or a touch screen, and fits a phone.