Games like Nerdle: daily maths and number guessing games

The nearest relatives keep the hidden equation. Mini Nerdle is Nerdle's own six-character version, such as 12+3=15, for a shorter solve. Equate hides an eight-character equation like Nerdle's, and Mathle shrinks it to a two-digit addition or subtraction with five tries. Mathler and Numble turn it around a little: you are told the result and have to find the calculation that makes it, with green, yellow and grey tiles. Mathler comes at four levels each day, from easy to killer, so you can pick how long it takes. Calcle shows the result and asks only for the five digits that fill the calculation. Sequation fixes four operators and a target and asks for the five digits between them, worked strictly left to right rather than by the usual order of operations. OpGlyph turns that around: the digits are given and you fill in the signs. 37 - The Math Puzzle gives everyone the same seven dice and asks for one equation that uses them all to make 37. Witloop, an app, puts a hidden equation called Digit Duel beside a nonogram and an anagram each day.

If what you like in Nerdle is the deduction from coloured feedback, the number and code games are next. Numberle hides a five-digit number and Primel a five-digit prime, where every guess must also be prime. Rangele hides a three-digit number and adds a too-high or too-low hint to the coloured digits. NumCue hides a four-digit code of different digits with green, orange and grey clues and eight guesses. xdle hides a three-digit number and answers each guess with clues about primes, powers and divisors. NumberGlyph hides a number of four, five or six digits and starts you off with its digit sum and whether each digit goes up or down. Numbun scores each four-digit guess with plus and minus signs instead of colours, and Heistle gives you intel cards and four tries to open a vault. Padlock gives four- and five-digit locks to crack in a set number of goes. Crack the Code and Codebreaker turn the idea around: you get other people's failed attempts and their scores, and deduce the code without guessing at all. One Lie gives you statements about a code of digits 1 to 6 and tells you one of them is false. Bulls and Cows is the classic code-breaking game with a daily four-digit code: each guess tells you how many digits are right and in place and how many are right but elsewhere, never which, and you get up to 50 guesses. Kode hands you a board of guesses already scored that way and gives you three tries to enter the one code that fits. Hexcodle gives higher-or-lower arrows for each character of a colour's hex code, Hexcodle Mini does it with a three-character code, Colorle scores a hex code with Wordle tiles, and Spectra hides a colour as three digits from 0 to 9 for red, green and blue, all number puzzles in disguise.

If you would rather build the equation yourself, Abako, Parithmetic, Mathdle and Summle all hand you six numbers and a target, the old Countdown numbers round. Parithmetic scores you like golf against the day's par; Abako has four draws a day and a harder round on Sunday; Mathdle gets harder through the week; Summle asks you to get there in five sums or fewer. Crunch and NumUp each set a three-digit target from six numbers; Crunch scores you on how close you get. Logic Equations asks you to give each letter its own number so that a set of equations holds, closer to algebra than arithmetic. Cipher does the same with one letter sum a day, and Equations hands you fifteen numbers to sort into five true equations of three.

Start with Mini Nerdle and Mathler beside your Nerdle; both reward the same habits. Every daily equation and target puzzle we list is on the daily arithmetic puzzles page, and the code and number guessing games are with the rest on daily number games.