Mini Mahjong — Daily Brains · one small mahjong solitaire table a day, forgiving on Monday and full of traps by Sunday. Mini Mahjong is the tile-matching puzzle in Daily Brains (/daily). Each day lays out one compact mahjong solitaire table of 40 to 72 tiles in 2 to 4 layers, in one of 27 hand-designed shapes. Clear it by matching pairs of free tiles. Every deal is the same for everyone and is guaranteed to be clearable: it was built… (Full article…)
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AftercolorDaily Brains · five colours flash and vanish. Paint them back from memory.
AlmostDaily Brains · three boards a day, each harder. Everything follows a hidden pattern except one tile. Find it, then fix it.
Breakfast PanDaily Brains · fill today's dish with breakfast, no gaps.
CrosswiredDaily Brains · wire every pair, cross only on bridges, fill the board.
Daily MateDaily Brains · one chess problem a day: find the forced checkmate.
Daily MazeDaily Brains · one dungeon a day: light every rune, take the stairs down, beat par.
Daily ParkingDaily Brains · one gridlocked toy car park a day: slide your way out in par.
Daily PLODaily Brains · one Pot-Limit Omaha hand a day. Four cards, exactly two of them, pot-limit bets: price every call and play it the way the maths says.
Daily QuestDaily Brains · a treasure hunt of sealed notes: every answer is the key to the next clue, all the way to the vault.
FerretDaily Brains · a themed word search that gets craftier every day, from a listed Monday to a secret-message Sunday.
Hero StarDaily Brains · six toy heroes, one trick each, and a star for every one of them.
HieroglyphicsDaily Brains · read a carved Egyptian stela, sign by sign, gentle on Monday, fiendish on Sunday, always one answer.
IQ Test 10Daily Brains · ten brain-test questions a day: reasoning, verbal, spatial, memory and focus.
Massachusetts Hold'emDaily Brains · one Hold'em hand a day. Price every call, guess your equity, play it the way the maths says.
Mini ChessDaily Brains · solo capture chess: every move takes, one piece must remain.
Mini Great ChessDaily Brains · solo capture chess with the pieces of Timur's Great Chess.
Mini MahjongDaily Brains · one small mahjong solitaire table a day, forgiving on Monday and full of traps by Sunday.
Murder MysteryDaily Brains · one short whodunit a day, from a single paragraph on Monday to five on Sunday.
NightfixDaily Brains · no GPS, just the stars. Bring Polaris or the south pole down to the horizon with a sextant, time a star across your meridian, and plot where the ship is.
Nine ThingsDaily Brains · a 3×3 trivia grid from a new deck every day, scored by how obscure your answers are.
NumberlockDaily Brains · three number locks a day, each harder. + − × ÷, hit the target exactly.
Pixel PeekDaily Brains · one hidden picture, six guesses, fewer pixels = a higher score out of 10.
ProofreadDaily Brains · one typeset galley, a handful of planted mistakes, three red pencils.
QuiltworkDaily Brains · sew one logic quilt a day, Gentle on Monday to Fiendish on Sunday.
RecallDaily Brains · one snapshot of a room, a few seconds to look, eight questions.
Rude RebusDaily Brains · one hard word-picture riddle a day. Monday's a warm-up; Sunday is diabolical.
SightlineDaily Brains · a scope is on you. Read the stone for his range and height, read the city behind you for his direction, then pin his window.
SudokuDaily Brains · one classic newspaper Sudoku a day, Gentle on Monday to Fiendish on Sunday.
TangramDaily Brains · seven pieces, one silhouette a day. Fill it exactly, then find out what it is.
The Daily CrossDaily Brains · a proper American-style crossword every day, a quick grid on Monday to a themed Sunday special.
The Impostor's DictionaryDaily Brains · a masked ball for rare words. Every entry wears a mask; tear them off the forgeries.
The Stupid Person GameDaily Brains · six stupidly easy questions, three fuses, and a trap in every one.
Time StackDaily Brains · six or seven moments from history, stack them oldest to newest.
Timurs CheckmateDaily Brains · one checkmate problem a day in Timur's Great Chess.
TopODaily Brains · you are somewhere on this map. Read the land, drop your pin.
Twisty CrypticyDaily Brains · one proper cryptic crossword clue a day, gentle on Monday, fiendish by Sunday.
WeftDaily Brains · weave a cellular automaton by hand, one row of cloth at a time, Gentle on Monday to Fiendish on Sunday.
Who Had WhatDaily Brains · one logic-grid case a day: who wore what, who came when, who brought which. Gentle on Monday, fiendish on Sunday.
Word AutopsyDaily Brains · three words on an anatomy plate, a scalpel, and a tray of specimen labels.
ZubixDaily Brains · drag rows and columns (and twist 2×2 blocks from Thursday) to put today's pixel picture back together on a wrap-around tray.