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Daily games in German

Word games, crosswords and logic puzzles in German, from the big papers and from independent sites. A new puzzle each day.

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8mal5 board with the guesses MAUER, KLEBT, ECHOS and GRÜßE coloured green, yellow and grey above a German keyboard

8mal5

A German Wordle with eight tries, umlauts and ß, and daily words of four to nine letters.

Begriffel how-to-play panel on Der Tagesspiegel: guess a five-letter German word, with example tiles (S yellow in SONNE, S green in KRASS) explaining the colours, a note of six tries, and features inc

Begriffel (Tagesspiegel)

Guess the Tagesspiegel's German word of the day in six tries.

Tages-Anzeiger's Between screen: the empty guess box above an on-screen QWERTZ keyboard

Between (Tages-Anzeiger)

Find the hidden word that sits alphabetically between two others, in ten guesses.

Illustration of a Bimaru grid with the fleet above it and ship counts along the rows and columns

Bimaru (Tages-Anzeiger)

A daily battleship logic grid on the Tages-Anzeiger games page, free to play.

Buchstabenring (Süddeutsche Zeitung) key art: a drawn thinking head with a ring of letter circles S, Z, R, Ä, T, L and a blank, surrounded by loose letter circles

Buchstabenring (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Chain German words around a ring of letters, in as few words as you can.

DailyGeo

Guess the day's capital and the day's country from real clues.

Flow board placeholder: a 6x6 grid with numbered dots from 1 to 8

Flow (Tages-Anzeiger)

Join the numbers in order with one path that fills the whole grid, a new board every day.

Illustration of a figure with a square head surrounded by cubes showing numbers and greater-than signs

Futoshiki (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

The Süddeutsche Zeitung's daily Futoshiki: numbers, rows and greater-than signs.

Geopolitix

Five countries, one statistic: find the right order.

GridWords in the Gridgames app: a six-row grid with the guesses GUTEN and WORTE, one green E, and a German keyboard below

GridWords

Wordle auf Deutsch: one five-letter German word a day.

Three numbered Hashi islands (3, 5 and 7) joined by single and double bridges

Hashiwokakero (DIE ZEIT)

Join numbered islands with bridges in DIE ZEIT's daily Hashi, in three sizes.

HelloWords preview art: a five-column board of white tiles with green, yellow and grey tiles in its first rows, and loose letter blocks on a lilac background

HelloWords (stern.de)

A daily five-letter word in six tries, on German-language news sites.

How big? roughly. share art: the line How big, roughly, is it? beside a phone showing puzzle 16, where an orange Burj Khalifa is dragged to its real size next to the RMS Titanic under the prompt Drag

How big? roughly.

Drag one object to its real size next to another, five times a day.

How expensive? roughly. share art: the line How expensive, roughly, was it? beside a phone showing puzzle 252, 250 g of butter in Switzerland in 2026, with a price scale set to 4.70 CHF

How expensive? roughly.

Guess what a kilo of beef or a pound of sugar cost, in a given place and year.

How many? roughly. share art: the line How many of you, roughly, fit in? beside a phone showing puzzle 39 asking How tall are you?, with a purple figure on a height scale set to 5 feet 2 inches (158 c

How many? roughly.

Guess how many of you it takes to reach the top of a tower, roughly.

How sweet? roughly. share art: the line How sweet, roughly, is it? beside a phone showing puzzle 252, a 1.5 litre bottle of iced tea, with rows of sugar cube slots for the guess

How sweet? roughly.

Stack the sugar cubes you think are in a glass of juice or a bowl of cereal.

How wide? roughly. share art: the line How wide, roughly, is the city? beside a phone showing puzzle 252, where the blue outline of San Francisco is dragged to its true size over the grey outline of V

How wide? roughly.

Resize one city's outline against another until the built-up area matches.

Illustration of a face made of yellow blocks packed in a box, with small groups of coloured stones around it

Kestli (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Slide falling stones into the box until every one fits.

Knight Hop daily puzzle in play: a 3x3 letter board with four squares linked by knight's moves and NECK spelled so far under the board

Knight Hop: Word Puzzle (Paardensprong)

Read the day's eight-letter word by hopping round the board like a chess knight.

Koto Today's Challenge, 5 letters, with guesses TRAIN and SOLID coloured and SOLVE being typed, guess 3 of 6

Koto: Word of the Day

A daily word to find from colour clues, its length changing with the date.

The NZZ Kreuzworträtsel: a Swedish-style grid with clues in grey squares, such as Gipfel der Berner Alpen im Wallis, the answer BATSEBA filled in down, and circled squares for the solution word

Kreuzworträtsel (NZZ)

The NZZ's free daily German crossword, with a Swiss slant and a solution word.

Illustration of a person in a hat and scarf patterned like a crossword grid, holding a pencil, with letter tiles around

Kreuzworträtsel (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

A daily 15 by 15 German crossword from the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Tages-Anzeiger's Kreuzworträtsel board: an empty numbered crossword grid with black squares and the first across answer highlighted

Kreuzworträtsel (Tages-Anzeiger)

The Tages-Anzeiger's daily German crossword.

Kreuzworträtsel (WELT) board: an empty crossword grid with the first across clue, großer Beutel, Behälter aus Stoff, highlighted in orange, the Waagerecht and Senkrecht clue lists on the right and the

Kreuzworträtsel (WELT)

A daily German crossword with a hidden solution word, against the clock.

Le Bon Rang share art: the name on a red-bordered sign, the question Qui a le plus de bars par habitant ? with Bordeaux and Lille city signs, the line 5 villes, 1 thème, and a row of pixel-art French

Le Bon Rang

Five French cities, one statistic: find the right order.

Tages-Anzeiger News-Quiz in the app: question 1 of 5 about Twint, with four answers, the correct one marked and the share of readers for each

News-Quiz (Tages-Anzeiger)

Five questions a day on the news, from the Zurich daily Tages-Anzeiger.

Pangram Game board with the letters O, R, B, V, E, D around a green U, the Genius rank reached at 109 points and 22 of 35 words found

Pangram Game - Word Puzzle

Seven letters, one in the middle you must always use, and a friends leaderboard for the day.

Past Puzzle App Store screenshot: year guesses 1930 and 1986 with digits coloured green, red and yellow, the solved year 1969, the question When did the first moon landing take place? and a number key

Past Puzzle

Four historical clues, one year: find it in four guesses.

Pie Puzzle nine-slice pie in play with the slices T, O, O, T highlighted in order and TOOT spelled so far, the rest reading HPICK

Pie Puzzle: Word Game (Taartpuzzel)

Find where the word starts on the pie, and which way round to read it.

QuadWords board on Gridgames before the first guess: four empty five-letter boards in a two by two layout, each with its active row on top, above a German QWERTZ keyboard

QuadWords (Gridgames)

Guess four hidden five-letter words at once in nine tries, in German, English and many other languages.

Rasterix start screen in the Tagesspiegel games section with the instruction Ziehen Sie passende Rechtecke um alle Zahlen (draw matching rectangles around all the numbers) and buttons to play, see how

Rasterix (Tagesspiegel)

Draw rectangles around every number so each one's area matches its clue, a new grid each day.

Illustration of hands holding a chessboard with chess pieces around it

Schach-Rätsel (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Your move: the Süddeutsche Zeitung's daily chess puzzle.

Spelling Hex key art: cream hexagonal letter tiles N, I, P, E, G and L around a purple centre tile S, with small tiles spelling HEX

Spelling Hex (stern.de)

A German Spelling Bee: seven letters, one compulsory, a new hive every day.

The SPIEGEL Quiz des Tages icon: a blue light bulb with an exclamation mark over three answer bars

SPIEGEL Quiz des Tages

Seven questions a day on politics and society, in German.

SPIEGEL Wabenrätsel title art: orange honeycomb cells around a white centre cell, spelling WABEN on a pale yellow background

SPIEGEL Wabenrätsel

A German crossword where answers wind around hexagons.

Illustration of a solver with Str8ts number rows above his head

Str8ts (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Build number straights across and down in the SZ's daily Str8ts.

Illustration of a woman with a pen, wearing a sudoku-grid jumper, surrounded by small coloured grids with numbers

Sudoku (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

The Süddeutsche Zeitung's free daily sudoku in three levels.

Tagesspiegel Sudoku at level Leicht: a 9x9 grid with given digits shaded, a red number pad, Notizen and Hilfe buttons and a running clock

Sudoku (Tagesspiegel)

The Berlin Tagesspiegel's sudoku of the day, at four levels, in the browser.

Variablo (Tagesspiegel)

Crack the day's four-colour code in ten guesses.

Viererkette's own icon from DER SPIEGEL: a 4x4 grid of tiles in four shades of blue, one row per group

Viererkette

Sort sixteen German words into four groups of four.

When? roughly. share art: the line When, roughly, did it happen? beside a phone showing puzzle 252, The Eiffel Tower, with a timeline slider set to AD 917 across eras from Ancient to Now

When? roughly.

Place five things from history on a timeline, roughly.

Where from? roughly.

See a company's logo and pin its headquarters on a blank world map.

Where? roughly. share art: the line Where, roughly, does it live? beside a phone showing puzzle 252, Emperor penguin, with a world map and a crosshair marker for placing the guess

Where? roughly.

Pin five animals on a blank world map, roughly where they live.

Which way? roughly. share art: the line Which way, roughly, does it run? beside a phone showing puzzle 252, Draw the Nile, over a dark map of northeast Africa and the Middle East with a pointer ready

Which way? roughly.

Draw a river or a mountain range from memory on a map with no borders.

Who? roughly. share art: the line Who, roughly, thinks that? beside a phone showing puzzle 252, Giving a secondhand gift?, with the answer choices Acceptable, Unacceptable and Not sure

Who? roughly.

Guess what share of people gave an answer in a real published survey.

ZEIT quiz share image: a question mark card and an exclamation mark card

Wissenstest des Tages (Die Zeit)

DIE ZEIT's daily eight-question news and knowledge quiz, in German.

Easybrain Word Search, level 6: a grid of letters with SEARCH, GREAT and WORD marked by coloured bars and GAME still to find

Word Search (Easybrain)

Swipe across a grid of letters to find the hidden words, with a Daily Challenge each day.

Wordle auf Deutsch start screen on SZ.de for 4 October 2026, puzzle number 308: the grid icon, the title, the line Finden Sie das gesuchte Wort and a Spielen button

Wordle auf Deutsch (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

The official German Wordle: one five-letter word a day, six tries.

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