Omiword

Omiword is made by Alan Bellows, the writer behind the long-running Damn Interesting website. A numbered puzzle has come out every day since 1 January 2025, so the archive held 667 past puzzles on 30 October 2026. It is free, shows no ads and is kept going by readers on Patreon.

Each board is a grid split into sectors by thin lines. Letter tiles sit around the edge of every sector, and dotted slots inside mark where four words cross. A tile can go to any slot in its own sector but never into another one. Where two words cross, one tile has to work for both. Friday 30 October (#668, Challenging) had four sectors of six tiles each, filled into two six-letter words across and two eight-letter words down. Monday boards are smaller, with five-letter words, and Sunday's Vexing board has two large sectors instead of four.

The game keeps your time and your count of moves, and it has a small number of hints for each puzzle. More than one answer can be right: if your four words are valid but differ from the setter's, the game says you found an alternate solution and offers to show the original. Solved puzzles add items to a collection, and a player code lets you carry your progress to another device.

There is no guess limit and no penalty for moving tiles around, so it suits players who like to turn letters over at their own pace. The Monday to Sunday rise in difficulty works much like a newspaper crossword week.