Solitile (Knotwise Games)

Solitile is one of the daily puzzles from Knotwise Games. Instead of suits and ranks, the cards carry words that belong to themed families, and a crowned card opens a goal slot for its family. You draw from the pile to bring cards into play and drop face-up cards onto slots or columns until each family is gathered and cleared.

There are fewer goal slots than families, so slots get reused and the order in which you clear families matters. To make sure every deal can be won, the game builds each board backwards from a finished state, laying families in bands of three, one per slot. The three crowned cards visible at the start are always the families that clear first.

A new deal arrives every day at midnight Eastern time and is the same for everyone. Monday has the fewest families and shortest words, and both grow toward the weekend, when up to seven families compete for three slots. Since July 2026 each day is a hand-authored pack with a light theme. The last seven days are free in the archive; older deals back to the June 2026 launch come with Knotwise+, the studio's subscription ($5 a month or $42 a year), which opens the archives of all four Knotwise games. Restarting costs nothing, and there is no move limit: the move counter is only a score to beat on a replay.

Solitile is made by Knotwise Games, a small studio led by puzzle designer Shawn Liu, alongside Tilerdle, Alibi and Griductive. It plays in the browser on a desktop or a phone with no account, and an Android app with the same daily deals is in open beta on Google Play.