A little break
for your brain.
Short, clever games you can finish. Think for a few minutes, learn something, and get on with your day — no feed, no autoplay, nothing to unlock.
How do you feel?
Today's puzzles
8 games where everyone gets the same board. Come back tomorrow and they are all different.
- Daily wordOne five-letter word a day — and what it means afterwardsWord3 min · dailyPlay Daily word on BrainBreak. Six guesses at a hidden five-letter word, with a definition and an example sentence waiting at the end of it.
- QuartetsSixteen words hiding four groups of fourWord4 min · dailyPlay Quartets on BrainBreak. Find the four hidden connections among sixteen words. The obvious grouping is usually the trap.
- Word searchA themed grid, and words hidden eight waysPattern5 min · dailyPlay Word search on BrainBreak. Find every hidden word in the grid — forwards, backwards, up, down and diagonally. A quiet one, for when you want to think without being tested.
- SudokuNine by nine, one of each, no guessing requiredLogic10 min · dailyPlay Sudoku on BrainBreak. The classic number-placement puzzle, in four difficulties, with pencil marks and a daily grid everyone gets the same.
- NonogramNumbers along the edges; a picture in the middlePattern7 min · dailyPlay Nonogram on BrainBreak. Fill the squares the row and column clues describe, and a picture appears. Logic with a reward you can look at.
- Sort ItPour the colours apart, one tube at a timeLogic4 min · dailyPlay Sort It on BrainBreak. Pour balls between tubes until each one holds a single colour. Every puzzle here is solvable without a dead end you could not have seen coming.
- BraidChange one letter at a time and walk to the far wordWord4 min · dailyPlay Braid on BrainBreak. Turn the first word into the last, one letter per step, and every step has to be a real word. The short route is rarely the obvious one.
- Spot the differenceTwo scenes, five changes, no time limitPattern5 min · dailyPlay Spot the difference on BrainBreak. Find the five things that differ between two drawings of the same scene. Pure attention — the one game here that asks you to slow down rather than think faster.
Play any time
No daily board — start a new one whenever you like, as often as you like.
- MinesweeperLogicRead the numbers, find the mines, never guessPlay5 minPlay Minesweeper on BrainBreak. Deduce where the mines are from the numbers around them. Every board here is solvable by reasoning alone.
- EchoMemoryWatch the pattern, play it back, go one furtherPlay2 minPlay Echo on BrainBreak. A sequence that grows by one every round. Pure working memory — and each pad has its own note, so the pattern is a tune.
- 2048NumberSlide, join, double — simple to start, hard to stopPlay8 minPlay 2048 on BrainBreak. Slide the tiles, join matching numbers and work your way up to 2048, then see how far past it you can go.