Daily Codewords (SudokuWiki)

SudokuWiki.org is best known for Andrew Stuart's sudoku solvers and strategy guides, but its daily puzzle menu also has a word puzzle: Daily Codewords. Each day brings a new numbered grid (#997 was dated 21 October 2026), a full 17 by 19 crossword where every white square carries a number from 1 to 26. The same number always means the same letter, and every letter of the alphabet is used at least once.

Two letters are solved for you at the start. From there you look for words where the known letters and the pattern of repeated numbers allow only one answer, and type the letters you find into the grid or the key below it. With Auto-fill on, a letter you enter goes into every square with the same number, and the A to Z list down the side lets you cross off letters as you place them. A timer runs while you solve, Check marks your progress, Re-Start clears the grid, and you can print the puzzle or look at yesterday's solution.

The page does not say when the next grid arrives. Like the site's other dailies, the new codeword goes up some hours after midnight GMT, at about 03:00 UTC: just after midnight UTC on 22 October the page still served the grid dated 21 October.

The page's comment thread is busy with regular solvers discussing the day's words, including the odd puzzle where two letters could swap. The maker answers there, and in September 2026 refreshed the word list after readers' reports.

It suits crossword players who enjoy logic more than general knowledge, since a codeword needs no clues, only a good feel for English words.