Games like Letter Boxed: daily word chain puzzles

The closest relative is the Süddeutsche Zeitung's Buchstabenring, which chains German words around a ring of letters until every one is used, in as few words as possible; it is for subscribers. In English, Word Pizza keeps the chain, five words from the tip of the slice to the crust, each starting with the last letter of the one before, scored on a global leaderboard. Coil builds a chain from one seed word where each new word shares one more letter with the last.

If you like Letter Boxed for its efficiency, Crossing The Lexicon asks you to join three squares with words using as few letters as possible, and Letterbox from Lost Art Games has a grid that grows through the week. Longhand gives a small pile of prefixes, roots and endings each day to grow into the longest word you can.

For a looser daily with a fixed set of letters, Spelling Bee and Squaredle are the classics: Spelling Bee's hive of seven letters with a required centre, and Squaredle's grid of letters to trace every hidden word through. WordSlip, from DailyPlay, hides one seven-letter word on a hex grid and asks for a single path through every cell.