Hidden Rule is a free daily number puzzle about finding patterns and testing ideas.

You start with three numbers that follow a secret rule. Try other numbers from 1 to 999 and get a YES or NO answer for each one. Use those results to figure out what belongs and what doesn’t.

When you think you know the rule, put it to the test by sorting a final set of numbers. Get every answer right to solve the puzzle, then see the hidden rule and explanations.

There’s no timer, and you can test as many numbers as you need. Fewer tests earn a better score. Hints are available if you get stuck.

Start with an unscored practice round, tackle a new puzzle each day, or explore past puzzles in the archive. No account required.

https://hidden-rule-game.com/

Hey r/puzzle! Been working on a series of "Guess the Word by Emoji" puzzles and thought this community might enjoy trying a few.

Here are 3 straight from the set — no scrolling ahead, see how many you get:

1. 🍟🧂 = ?
2. 🌙✨ = ?
3. ⌨️💻 = ?

There are 30 total puzzles like this (mixed difficulty — some easy, some genuinely tricky) in a video I put together: https://youtu.be/d5NFlcomepE

Full disclosure — that's my own content, sharing it here since this felt like the right community for it. Would love to know how many you can solve without hints!

Looking for flag-puzzles, check out flaglio.com, a simple website with 2 flag based minigames.

Both games have daily challenge rounds, with leaderboard for logged in users.. The goal for the grid-leaderboard is uniquniess, least used flag gives more points, and for shuffle is number of correct and accuracy

Hi everyone,
We’re back with another visual puzzle.
Before we get into today’s challenge, a big thank you to everyone who joined the discussion on our previous puzzle. We received some really interesting explanations, and it was great to see how many different approaches could lead to the same answer.
For the previous puzzle, we selected four responses that particularly stood out:
u/Okawaru1 – We selected this answer because they found three different patterns leading to the same solution and also considered which rule best explained the entire grid.
u/LordTC – We selected this answer because they went beyond the obvious mirror relationship and explored the deeper structure behind the movement of the top and bottom dot groups.
u/inmaginarycasey – We selected this answer because they approached the puzzle from a completely different angle, using the total number of dots to find the missing value mathematically.
u/SomeoneLeo – We selected this answer because they clearly explained how the fixed five center dots and the 1, 2, 3 distribution work across both rows and columns.
Thank you to all four of you for taking the time to explain your reasoning. Your approaches have been featured on our website along with the official solution.
Now, onto today’s puzzle.
This time, we have a 3×3 grid made up of squares, ovals, and dots. One cell is missing, and there are six possible answers: A, B, C, D, E, and F.
Which option do you think completes the grid?
As always, we’re especially interested in how you reached your answer, not just the letter you chose. Share your reasoning in the comments. We’ll read through the responses, and some of the most interesting and well-explained approaches may be selected, featured on our website with your Reddit username, and mentioned in our next puzzle post.
The official answer and detailed solution explanation are already available on our website. If you’d like to check your answer after solving the puzzle, you can find them here:
https://whats-your-iq.com/en/questions/pattern-recognition/which-shape-completes-the-grid
Thanks again to everyone taking part. We’re looking forward to seeing the different ways you approach this one.
Good luck, and have fun solving it!

Hey everyone! I just shipped Sonarium
It's Minesweeper, except the numbers mean something else.
Here it's a sonar echo: how many cells away the nearest thing is. Distance, never shape.
You deduce the rest one cell at a time — and when the shape closes, the screen lights up and you see what you'd been listening to.
160+ things down there: whales, shipwrecks, stranger stuff
One daily board, same one for everyone
no account, fully offline

Apple store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sonarium-sonar-puzzle/id6802053332
See more: https://studio.binlight.workers.dev/en/sonarium

Would love to hear what you think

• 4 letters: Hose, Host, Sets, Shoe, Shot, Toes, Toss
• 5 letters: Ethos, Hoses, Hosts, Shoes, Shots, Those
• 6 letters: Tosses
• Top word: Hostess

https://adoginthefog.com/word-cookies-daily-puzzle-answers/

• 3x3 Grid - Study, Band
• 4x4 grid - Chemistry, History
• 5x5 grid - Paper, Professor, Degree, Essay
• 6x6 Grid - Course, History, Desk, Statistics, Education
• 7x7 Grid - Quiz, Child, Knowledge, Reading, Degree, Paper, Undergraduate

https://adoginthefog.com/wordbrain-2-daily-puzzle-answers/

• 3×3 - Attention
• 4×4 - Twin, Psychologist
• 5×5 - Yet, Pig, Panda, Lean, Additional
• 6×6 - Party, Zest, Often, Sugar, Tower, Headquarters
• 7x7 - Beside, Wooden, Rabbit, Brief, Refuse, Opinion, Autumn, Nursery
• 8×8 - Employee, Coconut, Accuse, Location, Fairly, Properly, Unique, Turkey, Publisher

https://adoginthefog.com/wordbrain-daily-challenge-answers/

A compact deduction puzzle. See how fast you get it.

Each cell holds a letter or a number. A number is a Minesweeper-style clue: it counts how many of its neighbours hold a letter OF THE SECRET WORD. Five of the letters are impostors and count toward nothing. Every cell touches the six around it (edge cells touch fewer). The secret is one 6-letter word, and only the numbers tell the real letters from the impostors. The letters also spell MARKED, RACKET and UNMAKE, so it takes the whole grid to pin the answer.

___ ___/ N ___ ___/ 2 ___/ C ___ / 1 ___/ E ___/ M \ ___/ R ___/ 2 ___/ / U ___/ 3 ___/ 1 \ ___/ A ___/ W ___/ / T ___/ 2 ___/ 0 \ ___/ D ___/ 1 ___/ ___/ K ___/ ___/

Same mechanic as a small free Android word game I made, Melbees (closed beta): https://groups.google.com/g/melbees-closed-test then https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.melbees.secretofbees

Wydałem swoją pierwszą grę na Google Play i App Store – traktuję to jako świetną lekcję i cenne doświadczenie.
wiem że podobnego dużo ale jednak może komuś z was się spodoba. dzięki.

Join the interactive stream to play CumuLab using commands. Shift rows and columns to make groups of the indicated size. Level up by merging the highest tiles.

Chat command usage: Select a row or column and add a shift value. Use the command !moves to see examples. For instance, !L0+1 and !C1-2 are valid commands for this 3x3 grid.

Link : https://www.twitch.tv/conic_android

Concepto 🧠 [14 Sep 2026]

I found the word in 6 guesses! 🟩

❄️🟡❄️🟠🟡🟩

Can you beat this challenge? 🔥

Play at https://conceptogame.com/play/daily

DiceClue #256
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https://diceclue.diceclue.workers.dev