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Mind Loft games

Mind Loft is a free daily puzzle site with about a hundred games, all with one board a day for every player and a reset at midnight Eastern time. It covers words and crosswords, a dozen sudoku variants, logic grids, chess, checkers and other endgames, card puzzles, price guessing, trivia runs and geography, with a leaderboard and an archive for each.

All mind loft games

Agent board on mindloftdaily.com: a Delta One business flight from JFK to LAX on Sat, Nov 14, with a price box and five empty guess slots

Agent (Mind Loft)

Guess what a named flight or hotel night costs, in five tries.

Alibi board on mindloftdaily.com: numbered witness statements beside the room, departure time and item deduction grids

Alibi (Mind Loft)

A nightly manor mystery solved on three logic-grid boards.

Anon board on mindloftdaily.com: an empty 109-letter passage on the left and the answer bank on the right, with a Greek letter category highlighted

Anon (Mind Loft)

A daily acrostic with no clues: fill an unsigned passage and find its author.

Atlas question on mindloftdaily.com: which capital city is home to the Prado Museum, with Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon and Seville as options

Atlas (Mind Loft)

Twenty-five geography questions, 20 seconds each and one life.

Biz question on mindloftdaily.com: which British supermarket chain uses the slogan Every Little Helps, with Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Waitrose and Tesco as options

Biz (Mind Loft)

Twenty-five business questions, 20 seconds each and one life.

Blitz problem on mindloftdaily.com: 55 minus 21 with four answer buttons, 44, 34, 24 and 35

Blitz (Mind Loft)

Twenty mental math problems, 15 seconds each, one wrong answer ends it.

Blitzed in play on mindloftdaily.com: four answer buttons, 9, 19, 39 and 22, under a three-number problem, with the note to multiply and divide first

Blitzed (Mind Loft)

Twenty mental math problems with three numbers and two operations each.

Bracket board on mindloftdaily.com: sixteen countries in a round of 16 under the question which country is bigger, with empty quarter-final, semi-final and final slots

Bracket (Mind Loft)

Fill a sixteen-team bracket of facts before you learn a single result.

Cages killer sudoku on mindloftdaily.com: the lower rows of an empty grid divided into coloured dashed cages with sums, above a 1 to 9 number pad and Notes, Undo, Erase and Hint buttons

Cages (Mind Loft)

A daily killer sudoku that starts with no digits, only cage sums.

Calc board on mindloftdaily.com: a seven-wide grid of round calculator buttons alternating digits and operators, from a highlighted start button to the END button, with Step back, Back to start and Hi

Calc (Mind Loft)

Walk a grid of calculator buttons so your route adds up to the target.

Carve board on mindloftdaily.com: a grid of digits with ringed coloured anchor squares, and a row of block totals out of 30 below it

Carve (Mind Loft)

Cut a grid of digits into blocks that all add up to the same total.

Mind Loft's Chain for October 3, 2026: a 5 by 3 dots and boxes board with most edges drawn, one box claimed, the leader's time and Hint, Give up and Restart buttons

Chain (Mind Loft)

Find the one edge that keeps a won dots and boxes ending.

Check board on mindloftdaily.com: a checkers position with two red kings and a black king, with the note your move, 3 left to clear 2

Check (Mind Loft)

Red to play: take every black piece in three moves.

Crunch board on mindloftdaily.com: target 323 that needs 5 of the six numbers 50, 25, 9, 6, 3 and 1, with plus, minus, times and divide buttons

Crunch (Mind Loft)

Six numbers, one three-digit target, four operations.

Crux board on mindloftdaily.com: an empty clueless crossword grid with numbered slots, 1-Down highlighted as 9 letters with 0 guesses spent, and Free hint and Hint buttons

Crux (Mind Loft)

A crossword with no clues: guess words to reveal letters, then sort them into four categories.

Curator card on mindloftdaily.com: a Cartier LOVE Bracelet in 18K gold at list price, with a price box and five empty guess slots

Curator (Mind Loft)

Guess what a luxury piece or auction lot cost, in five tries.

Dating board on mindloftdaily.com: five shuffled exploration moments, from Vasco da Gama reaching India to Bering sighting Alaska, with arrows and a Check my order button with 3 checks left

Dating (Mind Loft)

Put five moments from history in order, earliest to latest.

Dealer card on mindloftdaily.com: a white 2026 Porsche 911 Carrera, base trim starting MSRP, with a price box and five empty guess slots

Dealer (Mind Loft)

Guess the starting sticker price of the day's vehicle, in five tries.

Deep question on mindloftdaily.com, topic Reptiles: which shelled animal can pull its head in for protection, with lizard, crocodile, tortoise and salamander as options

Deep (Mind Loft)

One subject a day, fifteen questions deep, one life.

Defend board on mindloftdaily.com: a chess position with a black rook against a white rook, king and bishop, and the line Black to play, mate in 3 against everything else

Defend (Mind Loft)

Black to play: find the only move that does not lose to mate.

Diag on mindloftdaily.com: the lower part of a 9x9 sudoku with both long diagonals tinted and ruled across it, a few printed digits, and the number pad with Notes and Hint below

Diag (Mind Loft)

A daily Sudoku X: both long diagonals hold 1 to 9 as well.

Docket on mindloftdaily.com: seven numbered conditions about six witnesses, a scratchpad bar, and question 1 of 5 with five answer choices A to E

Docket (Mind Loft)

One small scenario, a set of rules, and five questions about what they force.

Duet board on mindloftdaily.com: a 6x6 grid split into walled rooms, with x and = marks between squares and one ring placed

Duet (Mind Loft)

Fill every square with a dot or a ring, half and half in every line and room.

Emcee mini crossword on mindloftdaily.com: an empty 5x5 grid with three black squares, the clue 1A Something worth having, and the Across and Down clue lists

Emcee (Mind Loft)

A five by five mini crossword with fair, everyday clues.

Encore crossword on mindloftdaily.com: an empty 9x9 grid with numbered squares and black blocks, the clue 1A Lights out, and the Across and Down clue lists

Encore (Mind Loft)

A nine by nine daily crossword where every square is crossed both ways.

Feud on mindloftdaily.com: survey prompts 1 to 4 of 5, such as name something new drivers are terrible at, each with three empty answer boxes for the most, second and third most common answers

Feud (Mind Loft)

Five survey prompts a day, scored by what everyone else answers.

Fib board on mindloftdaily.com: a 5x5 grid with greater-than signs between squares and the digits 2, 1 and 5 printed, a 1 to 5 number pad, Notes, Hint and Submit, and the line tap the sign you are acc

Fib (Mind Loft)

A futoshiki grid where exactly one sign is a lie.

Finesse deal on mindloftdaily.com in dark mode: the West and East hands at the sides, the South hand of seven cards along the bottom with playable cards lit, and the prompt your turn, tap a lit card

Finesse (Mind Loft)

A daily bridge-style card puzzle with all four hands face up.

Flank on mindloftdaily.com: a text box reading type a country that borders Hungary, three strike boxes, and seven empty slots for Hungary's neighbours

Flank (Mind Loft)

Name every country that borders today's country before three strikes.

Four on mindloftdaily.com: a Connect Four board well into a game with yellow and dark discs, and the line your move, one column keeps this

Four (Mind Loft)

A won Connect Four position: find the one column that keeps the win.

Frame sudoku on mindloftdaily.com: the lower rows of a 9x9 grid with sums printed outside each row and column end, three printed digits, and the number pad with Notes and Hint

Frame (Mind Loft)

A daily sudoku with a sum outside every row and column end.

Garble on mindloftdaily.com: five rows of scrambled letters such as YARFI and TEMEH with empty answer boxes, and the finale clue a rock you are pleased to hit above nine empty boxes

Garble (Mind Loft)

Untangle five scrambled words, then solve the clued finale.

Glyph (Mind Loft)

A daily codeword: crack which number stands for which letter.

Hands board on mindloftdaily.com: an empty five by five card grid with a score marker beside each row and under each column

Hands (Mind Loft)

Place twenty-five cards on a grid where every row and column is a poker hand.

Hearsay on mindloftdaily.com: a ringing sheet of church towers and their bells, and four lines of conversation between Isolde and Beatrix about which bell rope is the secret one

Hearsay (Mind Loft)

Deduce the secret from what two people say they do not know.

Hinge on mindloftdaily.com: a word chain ending in GROUND with empty four-letter slots above it, a text box and Hinge button, and the prompt GOLF then 4 letters

Hinge (Mind Loft)

Fill a chain where each pair of neighbours makes a compound word.

A Listed board on Mind Loft: Canadian provinces and territories in rows with up and down arrows, ranked by area, above the Submit my ranking button with 5 submits left

Listed (Mind Loft)

Put eight real things in order by a real number, in five submits.

Lode on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: the how to play card with the day's core letter Y, the Common, Uncommon, Rare and Pangram scoring chips, the 84 point target and the Start button

Lode (Mind Loft)

Make words from seven letters around a core letter, where rare words score most.

Mate on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: a chessboard with a white queen, rook, knight and pawn against the black king, knight and pawn, captioned White to play, mate in 2, with Hint, Give up and Restar

Mate (Mind Loft)

White to play and force checkmate in two, one position a day.

Mercury on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: a 9x9 sudoku grid with a few printed digits and grey thermometer shapes with round bulbs, above a number pad and Notes, Auto-move, Undo, Erase, Clear and Hint

Mercury (Mind Loft)

A daily sudoku with thermometers: digits rise from each bulb to its tip.

Niche on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: a 3x3 trivia grid in the Musicians universe with columns A solo act, A solo female artist and A band or group, rows such as A British act, and an answer box bel

Niche (Mind Loft)

Fill a 3x3 grid with answers that fit both row and column, from a new universe each weekday.

Outrank on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: the Famous Landmarks slate with six landmarks to vote for in Your Vote and to order in Call the Crowd, above the Face the Crowd button

Outrank (Mind Loft)

Vote for your favourite, then predict how everyone else ranks the list.

Outwit on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: five prompt cards, Road Less Traveled, Herd, Meeting Point, Rare Bird and Undercut, each with options or a number box, above the Face the Crowd button

Outwit (Mind Loft)

Five prompts with no right answers, scored on how well you read today's crowd.

Parker on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: a jammed 6x6 lot of pastel blocks with the red block on the third row and the exit gap in the right wall, par 26 and perfect 20, above Restart board and Hint b

Parker (Mind Loft)

Slide the blocks on a jammed 6x6 lot until the red one reaches the exit.

Passport on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: a departures board with a scrambled destination, a Board now boarding pass, a dotted world map, the five visa stamps Landmark, Flag, Borders, Capital and Num

Passport (Mind Loft)

One mystery country a day, played five ways for a score out of 50.

Paths on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: the how to play card showing lane costs Open 1, Ridge 2, Crossing 3, Old track 0 and Cliff, the rules for linking all 9 towns, and the day's par of 43

Paths (Mind Loft)

Link every town to the depot for as little track as you can.

Ping on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: the Name the secret city box with a city search field, a Guess button, a miles or kilometres switch and a Hint: the continent button

Ping (Mind Loft)

Find the secret city of the day from distances alone.

Plot on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: an empty 10x10 shikaku grid with numbers such as 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 scattered across it, with Undo and Hint buttons below

Plot (Mind Loft)

Divide the board into rectangles, each holding one number equal to its area.

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