10 of the Best Free Word Games to Keep You Entertained

If you’ve ever wanted a sudoku for letters, this is close! Each puzzle is divided into different sections, each with the letters they contain at the top. Your job is to fill in each section, making words in each row and column with them.

In this game, you’re given a grid with four words, but they’re scrambled around. Each letter of the scrambled words has a match or multiple matches you can swap to create the correct missing words. Once you complete a word, it will turn pink, so you know you’ve got some of the letters in the right place. There are daily puzzles and 4×4, 5×5, and 6×6 grids to keep testing your limits. 

This is a riff on a virtual game of scattergories! Each round, you’ll get a list of five categories and a letter. As quickly as you can, you have to fill in words starting with that letter in each category. You can either play against a random stranger or, for more fun, with a family member or friend!

Words collide in this game of letter rearranging. Whether you play alone or with someone else, you’re given a set of letters to make a word. Your opponent then uses their letters to build more words into what you’ve played. It’s sort of like Scrabble if you could shift your opponent’s words around to make room for some of your own!

In Molecano, you help little characters reach their food by forming words from a handful of letters. You then crossword the words together to form a pathway for your little friend to eat! Careful, though: you can only form six words per round. Choose wisely!

In Letter Lattice, you’re given a starting word and an ending word, and your job is to change just one letter in each row in order to get from one to the other. For example, as the app uses in its tutorial, get from DOG to CAT by forming DOT, then COT.

If you’ve never tried a cryptogram before, you’re in for a treat! A quote or phrase has been hidden with the letters masked by a numeric code. For example, the number 26 may indicate where an E belongs. Your job is to figure out how to decode the whole phrase!

A combination crossword and game where you form words from a handful of letters, this one is the prettiest of the bunch! The puzzles, especially early on, are quick, too, so you can squeeze them in during a spare moment in your day.

I recommend doing the tutorial on this one before you jump in! Essentially, it’s a game where you combine tiles to make an assigned list of words. It’ll take some brain power, especially in the harder difficulties, to keep the disparate parts straight.

This is a word finder game but on something like a Rubix cube. As you form more words, cubes from the playing field disappear, revealing even more underneath! There are daily challenges you can choose to do, timed or unlimited, depending on how much you want to challenge yourself.