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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.

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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.

Polka on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: an empty 9x9 sudoku grid with white and black dots on the borders between squares, above a number pad and Notes, Auto-move, Undo, Erase, Clear and Hint buttons

Polka (Mind Loft)

A sudoku with no printed digits: only white and black dots between squares.

Pricer on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: the how to play card explaining five guesses with higher or lower arrows and Freezing to Burning hints, scoring within 1, 5, 15 and 50 percent, and the Start b

Pricer (Mind Loft)

One real product a day: guess its price in five tries.

Queen on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: a chessboard with a white king on g5 and white pawn on f3 against the black king on e6, captioned Your move. Promote in 9, with Hint, Give up and Restart

Queen (Mind Loft)

Walk a pawn to promotion against a perfect defending king, one endgame a day.

Quilt on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: a 9x9 jigsaw sudoku with nine irregular pastel-coloured regions and printed digits, above a number pad and Notes, Auto-move, Undo, Erase, Clear and Hint buttons

Quilt (Mind Loft)

A daily sudoku whose boxes are nine crooked coloured regions.

Quotes on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: question 1 of 25 in the Presidents and Politics warm-up, asking which president said in his 1981 inaugural that government is the problem, with four answer but

Quotes (Mind Loft)

Twenty-five famous lines to attribute, 20 seconds each and one life.

Realtor on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: a listing card for a home in Kansas City, MO with a curb photo of a two-storey house with a red porch, kitchen and inside thumbnails, 3 bd, 2 ba, 1,598 sq ft,

Realtor (Mind Loft)

One home for sale a day: guess its asking price in five tries.

Redact on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: a Place article rated Hard with nearly every word covered by orange blocks, a word guess box and counters for guesses, hit rate and share uncovered

Redact (Mind Loft)

An article with every word blacked out: guess words until you can name its subject.

Rim on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: the how to play card explaining outside sudoku triples printed beside row and column ends, with the knack about naked triples and the Start button

Rim (Mind Loft)

A sudoku with an empty grid and digit triples printed around its edges.

Rung on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: the start word DOUGH in letter tiles above an empty answer box and Climb button, the target word STARE below, par 16 and perfect 12, with Restart and Hint button

Rung (Mind Loft)

Climb from one five-letter word to another, changing one letter a rung.

Sando on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: the how to play card for sandwich sudoku, explaining margin sums between each line's 1 and 9, empty sandwiches of 0 and full ones of 35, with the Start button

Sando (Mind Loft)

A sudoku where each row and column clue is the sum between its 1 and its 9.

Script on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: question 1 of 25 in the Movies warm-up asking which sport the students play on flying broomsticks at Hogwarts, with four answer buttons and a countdown bar

Script (Mind Loft)

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

Shards on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: the how to play card explaining wet and locked pieces, misses of 5, hints and the 150 point start, above the Start button

Shards (Mind Loft)

A solved mini crossword broken into pieces: put it back together.

Shoe on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: a blackjack table with the dealer showing a 7 of clubs and a face-down card, the player holding the ace and three of diamonds for soft 14, and Hit, Stand and Dou

Shoe (Mind Loft)

Ten hands of blackjack from one fixed shoe, the same cards for everyone.

Sixes on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: a 6x6 sudoku grid with boxes two squares tall and three wide and ten printed digits, above a 1 to 6 number pad and Notes, Auto-move, Undo, Erase, Clear and Hint

Sixes (Mind Loft)

A 6x6 sudoku a day: fill every row, column and box with 1 to 6.

Slot on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: US cities by population, with Dallas in hand as item 1 of 10 and ten slots from Most people to Fewest, par 4

Slot (Mind Loft)

Rank ten real things blind, placing each one before you see the next.

Snug on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: an empty 6x6 board with one square missing from the bottom row, and seven green polyomino pieces on the pad below with Rotate, Flip, Undo, Clear and Hint buttons

Snug (Mind Loft)

Fit the day's pieces into the board so every square is covered.

Span on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: the route Kazakhstan to Oman with a Next stop from Kazakhstan box and Go button, a Hint button, and 0 hops against a perfect of 5

Span (Mind Loft)

Connect two countries by the shortest chain of land borders.

Sport on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: question 1 of 25 in the NFL warm-up asking how many points a touchdown and a two point conversion are worth, with answers Seven, Six, Eight and Nine and a count

Sport (Mind Loft)

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

Stands on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: five surviving facts about clubs such as Barmoor and Dalehead, an empty five by five results grid of clubs, and a league table with all zeros, above Hand in th

Stands (Mind Loft)

Rebuild every result of a small league from a few surviving facts.

Stet on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: five news sentences, such as one about a solicitor's client advised of his write to silence, each with a Stet, it's clean button

Stet (Mind Loft)

Find the wrong word in each sentence and fix it, or mark a clean one stet.

Strata on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: the start card explaining that 5 words from one untold category are buried in 25 letters, that diagonals count and a wrong trace costs nothing, with the Start

Strata (Mind Loft)

Dig five buried words out of 25 letters; each one you lift drops the rest.

Streak on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: question 1 of 40 in the Geography warm-up asking which is the largest island in the world, with four answer buttons and a countdown bar

Streak (Mind Loft)

Forty trivia questions, easy to brutal, 20 seconds each and one life.

Suds on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: a classic 9x9 sudoku grid with its printed clues, above a 1 to 9 number pad and Notes, Auto-move, Undo, Erase, Clear and Hint buttons

Suds (Mind Loft)

One classic 9x9 sudoku a day, the same grid for everyone.

Suffice on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: item 1 of 8 asking for the average of a list of five integers, with two statements and answer choices A to E on whether the statements are sufficient

Suffice (Mind Loft)

Eight questions you never answer: decide whether two statements are enough.

Sums on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: the how to play card for the daily kakuro, listing totals that can only be made one way and the knack about crossing runs, with the Start button and a 0 of 30 sq

Sums (Mind Loft)

A daily kakuro: every run of squares adds up to the clue at its head.

Sweep on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: the how to play card for the bottomless daily minesweeper, explaining that everyone digs the same field, flags and chords, scoring on squares uncovered with a p

Sweep (Mind Loft)

Minesweeper that runs downward with no bottom, the same field for everyone.

Sworn on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: the case of a barrel of herring stolen from a fish market, with five witnesses' statements, exactly 2 of 5 lying, an Accuse button beside each and a Hint: verif

Sworn (Mind Loft)

Five locals under oath, an exact number of liars, and one thief to name.

Taire on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: twenty spade and heart cards dealt face up in five columns of four, two empty free cells and the spade and heart home piles, with par 40 and perfect 32

Taire (Mind Loft)

A face-up solitaire deal a day, with a proven fewest-moves target.

Tally on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: the how to play card explaining rack tiles, row and column notes and scoring by fewest placements, with the Start button and a fewest 13 moves counter

Tally (Mind Loft)

Place a rack of number tiles so every row and column hits its target.

Thread on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: nine tiles of one-sentence film descriptions written badly, a film title box, and a Call the thread panel paying +6, +4 or +2 depending on how many films are s

Thread (Mind Loft)

Nine films described badly, one hidden thread to name.

Towers on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: an empty 5x5 skyscrapers grid with visibility clues such as 1, 2, 3 and 4 printed around its edges, above a 1 to 5 number pad and Notes, Auto-move, Undo, Erase

Towers (Mind Loft)

Place tower heights so each edge clue counts the towers you can see.

Tuck on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: the how to play card with the day's benchmark of 54, rules for building a connected crossword from 14 letters, the knack about crossing heavy tiles, and the Star

Tuck (Mind Loft)

Everyone gets the same 14 letters: build the highest scoring crossword.

Turn on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: an Othello board with your gold discs and the engine's grey discs, dots marking the empty squares, a 13 to 41 disc count and the caption Your move. One square ke

Turn (Mind Loft)

An Othello endgame you are winning: find the one square that keeps it.

Venn on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: three overlapping circles, A is radioactive, B exactly six letters and C no letter C, with a count in each of the seven regions and a tray of twelve chemical ele

Venn (Mind Loft)

Sort twelve words into three overlapping circles using the region counts.

Warmer on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: a cold to hot colour scale above a word guess box and Guess button, counters for guesses, closest word and time, and Hint and Give up buttons

Warmer (Mind Loft)

Find the secret word by meaning, guided from cold to hot.

Whittle on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: a solved 6x6 sudoku with eighteen clues shaded in bold, a counter of 18 clues left and 0 of 10 out, with Hint and End here buttons

Whittle (Mind Loft)

A sudoku played backwards: remove as many clues as the grid can lose.

Yose on Mind Loft for October 3, 2026: an 8x8 Go board with your gold stones and White's grey stones, territory marked on both sides and a few open points, area 31 to 26, komi 3.5, and the note To win

Yose (Mind Loft)

A Go endgame you are winning: play the open points in the right order.

Axiom title card from Mind Loft: the game's icon, name and one-line description

Axiom (Mind Loft)

A board of words, five possible rules, and a few tests to find the true one.

Babel title card from Mind Loft: the game's icon, name and one-line description

Babel (Mind Loft)

A word-tile game picked up at the end, with the bag empty and the opponent's rack knowable.

Barter title card from Mind Loft: the game's icon, name and one-line description

Barter (Mind Loft)

Trade two tiles at a time until six crossing words read true.

Blocks title card from Mind Loft: the game's icon, name and one-line description

Blocks (Mind Loft)

Falling shapes in the same order for everyone, with no speed-up.

Cipher title card from Mind Loft: the game's icon, name and one-line description

Cipher (Mind Loft)

A daily letter-sum: every letter hides a different digit.

Crib title card from Mind Loft: the game's icon, name and one-line description

Crib (Mind Loft)

Five cribbage hands a day: keep four, throw two, and match the best throw.

Etch title card from Mind Loft: the game's icon, name and one-line description

Etch (Mind Loft)

A daily nonogram: fill the squares the clues force and a picture appears.

Hedge title card from Mind Loft: the game's icon, name and one-line description

Hedge (Mind Loft)

Draw one closed loop so every number counts its sides on the loop.

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