Seven daily puzzles on one static page. Plain HTML, CSS and JS with zero dependencies, and nothing asks you to sign in. Play at https://munzzyy.github.io/puzzlepress/ or serve the folder yourself.
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Wordrow gives you six tries at a five letter word, with a hard mode if you want it. Clusters asks you to sort sixteen tiles into four themed groups before your fourth mistake. Heptagram hands you seven letters and one of them has to appear in every word you build. Minigrid is a 5x5 crossword with hand written clues. Wordweave hides theme words in a grid of letters; one of them spans the board and names the theme. Edgeways puts twelve letters around a square and you chain words until every letter is used. Sudoku is the classic, with pencil marks and undo.
More screenshots live in docs/shots.
Every game comes in easy, medium and hard, and each difficulty is its own daily: a separate puzzle drawn from a separate bank, with its own streak and stats. Progress you had before difficulties existed carries over as your medium record, nothing is lost. What "hard" means depends on the game:
| Game | Easy | Medium | Hard |
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| Wordrow | very common answers, 7 guesses | the original answer pool, 6 guesses | less common answers, hard mode always on |
| Clusters | distinct themes, no decoys | the standard mix | words that plausibly fit another group |
| Heptagram | common letters, short word list | the standard wheel | 40+ words or a rare letter, top rank needs the pangram |
| Minigrid | everyday fill, plain clues | the standard bank | trickier fill and clue angles |
| Wordweave | 6x6 grid, theme shown up front | 6x8 grid | theme hidden until you find the spanning word |
| Edgeways | par 3, common letters | par 2 | par 2 with a J, Q, X or Z on the square |
| Sudoku | few empty cells | more empty cells | needs real technique |
git clone https://github.com/munzzyy/puzzlepress
cd puzzlepress
python3 -m http.server
Open http://localhost:8000. Any static file server works. The site also installs as a PWA and keeps working offline once you have visited it.
Each game ships with a committed bank of puzzles in data/. Your browser
picks today's puzzle by counting days since the launch date and taking that
index into the bank, wrapping around when it runs out. Same date, same puzzle,
everywhere, with no server involved. The day flips at your local midnight,
the same moment your saved progress and streaks roll over.
Fair warning: the banks are plain JSON in a public repo, so today's answers are one file away. Peeking only ruins your own streak.
Each tools/gen_<game>.py rebuilds its data/<game>.json. They are stdlib
Python, deterministic with --seed, and validate their own output before
writing anything. You should not need to run them unless you want a different
bank.
node --test assets/shared.test.mjs games/*/core.test.mjs
python3 -m pytest -q
The node suites cover game logic (all of it lives in games/<id>/core.js
with no DOM in sight). The pytest suites check every bank against its schema
and invariants: sudoku uniqueness, wordweave grids tiling fully, minigrid
clues matching their answers, and so on.
- Word "commonness" is judgment plus one data point. Wordrow's easy and hard answer tiers were ranked against Peter Norvig's public word frequency counts in a one time offline pass, then read word by word to drop proper nouns, brands and slang; nothing from that corpus ships or runs here. The other curated lists are hand picked, and the full guess dictionaries come straight from the public domain ENABLE list, which accepts words like ZOEAE. The occasional obscure but valid word will show up.
- Profanity filtering on the big dictionaries is a best effort blocklist, not a linguistic audit. The curated answer lists are clean.
- Sudoku's hard tier is one wide bucket, graded by solving technique rather than a full named-technique ladder. Some hard days are harder than others.
- Minigrid uses two block layouts across its bank. The other valid 5x5 shapes produced no clean fills from the curated vocabulary, so they are not in there. That vocabulary also caps the bank: an exhaustive search finds 130 fully crossed grids, split 45/45/40 across the tiers. Hard puzzles are picked for trickier entries and reclued where a trickier clue exists, but some of their clues still read like medium ones.
- Sudoku cells land around 38px on a 360px phone, under the 44px touch guideline. Nine cells across a small screen leaves no way around it; every other control is 44px or better.
- Day numbering starts at the launch date, so the archive is only as old as the site.
Prosperity Public License 3.0.0: free for noncommercial use, with a 30 day trial for commercial use. The word list is the public domain ENABLE list; sources are recorded in data/ATTRIBUTION.md.