The Daily Crossword is one crossword for everyone, and a new crossword comes out every day. It has 12 animal answers in a grid of up to 11 × 13 squares, with ordinary clues, and it is named by its date instead of a number. Solve it to meet the animal of the day: the longest answer of the grid, shown with a short fact on its card. Each solved day adds to your streak, and the week of marks on the home screen shows the days you kept. Missed a day? Today's crossword is still waiting. Help is unlimited, as in every crossword here, and the daily grid can be printed like any other. Your streak is saved in this browser.
How to play
Every answer is an animal. Tap a square and read its clue on the label above the keyboard, then type the answer; the cursor moves along the answer and skips the squares already filled. Tap the same square again, or the label, to switch between across and down. A square where two answers cross belongs to both. Help can check or reveal a letter, an answer or the whole grid as often as you like, and the crossword is solved when every square holds the right letter.
Questions about Daily Crossword
Is the daily crossword the same for everyone?
Yes. Everyone who plays with answers in the same language gets the same crossword that day.
What happens after I solve the daily crossword?
You meet the animal of the day and add a day to your streak.
Crossword puzzles about animals, free to play online on your phone or computer. Read a clue, tap a square and type the answer with the keyboard under the grid — every answer is an animal, from fox to snow leopard. Pick a 5-answer mini, an easy or a hard grid, solve the daily crossword with everyone else, make your own crossword or print any of them.
A crossword rewards an order: start with the answers you are sure of, then let every crossing square give letters to the next.
New to crosswords? Each numbered answer has a clue in the Across or Down list. Tap a square of the answer, type the animal, and the letters land along the answer; a square where two answers cross belongs to both.
Before your next move
Typing a guess over a crossing letter you were sure of breaks two answers at once.
Revealing the whole grid ends the crossword without a win: check one answer first.
Browser edition
Play in your browser. No app download is needed.
Questions about Crossword
Are all answers animals?
Yes. Every crossword in the game is about animals: mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians, insects and sea life. Only your own crossword can use other words.
What is the Bestiary?
Every animal you solve joins the Bestiary, a field notebook of the animals you have met, with a card for each.
Does the game keep score?
No. The top bar shows your time, the answers solved and the help you used. Your progress is saved in this browser.
Original ManyPlay game. Controls and examples were checked against the browser edition; cover illustrations are labelled separately from gameplay captures. Report a changed rule or control.
