Every day, for the past couple of months, I have been playing the same three daily word games: Wordle, Keywords and Ribbit. Usually, playing them forms part of my morning routine when I first wake-up, and wait for the shower to become free.
Wordle
You must know this one. Started by Josh Wardle five years ago, Wordle quickly exploded in popularity in early 2022, when it seemed like almost everyone I followed on Twitter (as it was then) was playing it. The New York Times paid over a million dollars to buy it later that year.
You have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, starting with any valid word you choose. Green letters are in the right place, yellow letters are in the wrong place but feature in the answer, and grey letters can be discarded.
My current streak isn’t that impressive, as I missed a day a couple of weeks ago, but overall I have played in 1400 times with a 98% win rate. My maximum streak was 121 days.
Being completely honest, on some days I use the Wordle Solver for a bit of help. Like I mentioned, I tend to do Wordle first thing in the morning, when I’m not always fully awake. I use the same starter word, SOUND, every day – it used to be IRATE until that was the correct Wordle of the day, making it the one time I’ve completed it in one go. I’ve managed it in two goes 39 times though.
If you’re a free user like me, then you can only play that day’s game – access to the archives is a premium feature.
Keywords
Keywords is much newer, and is a daily word game by Dave ‘Bagpuss’ Forsey, a regular contributor to b3ta. I quite like the early 90s retro styling – this extends to the sound effects, if you have these on.
The object of Keywords is to guess five words, all of which will be linked in some way – the example in the screenshot is that they’re all gemstones. The first word will be the shortest and typically 4-5 letters, and you are given the first and last letters to help. Subsequent words are longer, and though you’re shown how long each one is, for these you only get the first letter, not the last. One hint is available each day, which reveals the next letter. You have up to nine attempts to guess each word.
I find Keywords to be the harder of the three, and at the time of writing I’m only on a nine day streak. Unlike Wordle, Keywords may include brands or proper nouns. My search history now includes things like ‘list of gemstones’ or ‘gemstones beginning with f’ where I’ve identified the theme but struggled with the answer.
Keywords is currently fully free to play, including its archive.
Ribbit
Ribbit, from Puzzmo, is also relatively new having started at the end of 2025. You start with 16 letters in a grid, with lines connecting them. The objective is to use the connecting lines to find words of at least four letters. Once you have found every word that contains that letter, it’s replaced with a frog, hence the name ‘Ribbit’. The objective is to uncover all 16 frogs.
Whilst most words will be 4-5 letters long, there’s always a ‘star’ word (or occasionally, two star words) which is much longer. Sometimes, the star word is really obvious – especially if it includes a less common letter like Q or X – but sometimes I have to clear lots of other words first. There’s no time limit, and no penalty for incorrect guesses, but completing Ribbit faster results in a higher score.
Like Wordle, access to Ribbit’s archives requires paying for a premium Puzzmo subscription, which I’ve taken advantage of. I’ve consequently played every edition of Ribbit.
There are other daily word games available from Puzzmo, including a couple of crosswords. I sometimes play Typeshift, where you scroll letters up and down to make different five letter words. If you register for a Puzzmo account and link it to your Bluesky account, then you also get a nice ‘Puzzmonaut’ badge on your Bluesky profile, and can see other Puzzmo users on Bluesky.
Other non-daily word games
I also play Wordscapes on a daily basis, but haven’t included it above as it’s not a new puzzle every day. Instead, it’s something I dip in and out of during the day. I’ve been playing it for a couple of years now.
