Games like Spelling Bee: daily letter puzzles to play next

The closest is Blossom from Merriam-Webster, free and with the same seven letters and compulsory centre, but it stops you at exactly twelve words, so the challenge is to choose long, high-scoring ones rather than to find them all. The Times' Polygon is a British word wheel: letters around a centre one, with a minimum length that rises after Tuesday and one word that always uses every letter.

In other languages, Panal de letras from La Nación is the Spanish honeycomb with star ranks, and Letras 7 from doce.games puts a three-minute clock on seven letters, one compulsory, for a faster game. L'Apegramma from the Corriere della Sera is the Italian version, and Le Monde's Mots trouvés gives French players nine letters and ten minutes.

If you like the search more than the hive, the letter grids are next. Squaredle hides every word in a small square you trace through, with a daily grid and a smaller one, and Beat Me at Boggle gives you the day's Boggle board and the score its maker got on it. SpellTower's Daily Tower has you clearing stacked letters before they reach the top.

The New York Times' own Letter Boxed is the natural second game for Bee players: twelve letters around a square, used in as few chained words as you can. Wordiply from the Guardian asks for the longest word around a short starter, and Typeshift slides columns of letters until every one has been part of a word.

For a free daily seven-letter puzzle, start with Blossom. For a harder, longer search, Polygon and Squaredle.