The DLEHUNT journal

A better daily ritual.

Good games, thoughtful guides, and a few ideas for your next guess. Make the most of your puzzle break.

PricedInComparisons

Thinking about trying PricedIn? Here's how it stacks up against Wordle and The Price Is Right

PricedIn is a daily price-guessing game that blends Wordle's one-puzzle-per-day rhythm with The Price Is Right's challenge of pricing everyday items across six different years. It suits players who want a short, familiar daily ritual, but requires remembering historical prices rather than relying on today's costs.

3 min read
Zen Ten MatchGame guides

Is Zen Ten Match a game or a meditation timer? A skeptic’s review of the daily number puzzle

Zen Ten Match is a number-matching puzzle wrapped in meditation styling. It is a game first, with calm pacing and soothing visuals, not a true meditation timer; daily puzzles are always solvable and take only a few minutes.

4 min read
Masterpiece DashGetting started

First time restoring? A plain-English guide to Masterpiece Dash's daily puzzle

A beginner-friendly walkthrough of Masterpiece Dash's daily puzzle, explaining the restore loop, clue, practice mode, streak rules, and browser saves. It focuses on helping new players understand each step before their first run.

4 min read
WormillionGetting started

A Field Guide to Winning: Using Wormillion's 32,000 Place Database to Dig Deeper

Wormillion's official field guide catalogues 32,845 places across nine categories, turning the game into a studyable set of accepted names and scores. The article explains how to use category counts, anchor lists, and quick recall routines to replace obvious answers with deeper alternatives.

4 min read
ElidedGetting started

Spend four guesses like a patient solver: an Elided strategy guide to reading tile feedback

Treat early guesses as probes rather than attempts. Tile feedback marks letters in or out of the answer, and the order of confirmed tiles reveals their sequence in the hidden word, making patient probing a reliable path to a confident final solve.

3 min read
UnlabeledComparisons

Unlabeled vs. the Wordle Craze: Should Data-Driven Puzzle Fans Make the Switch?

Unlabeled replaces Wordle's letter puzzles with daily mystery charts, asking players to infer what each visualization represents from clues. It offers four charts per day and rewards analytical thinking over vocabulary, making it a strong alternative or complement for data-driven puzzle fans.

4 min read
LogidiaGame guides

Logidia Review: Four Daily Brain Games in One Hub — Is It the Right Puzzle for You?

Logidia is a free browser-based daily puzzle hub offering four quick logic games: Palavra, Trilho, Mini Sudoku, and Coroas, all tied together by a single streak. This overview explains each game and weighs the hub format against a single-puzzle habit.

4 min read
PricedInGetting started

Stop guessing, start bracketing: a smarter three-try strategy for PricedIn

This article explains a bracketing strategy for PricedIn puzzles, where each of the three yearly guesses is used to narrow the price range instead of aiming for an immediate correct answer. It also suggests anchoring guesses to real-world price knowledge for different years and reviewing each round as practice.

4 min read
ElidedGetting started

How to play Elided: the daily puzzle where you tap left to right and skip any letters

Elided is a daily word puzzle in which players tap letters left to right, skipping any letters, to find a hidden word across three 16-letter rounds. The article explains the left-to-right rule, tile feedback, and star rewards for fewer guesses.

4 min read