Best Daily Trivia Games: 22 Free Games to Play Every Day

We played our way through dozens of free trivia games to find the ones worth a daily spot. They are sorted by the kind of trivia you love: general knowledge, geography, sports, music, movies, history, numbers, and a handful of games for players with a serious competitive streak. Every pick runs in your browser, needs no download, and puts out a new round each day.

The quick picks

Game	Category	What you do
Plinkle Trivia	General knowledge	Drop a ball into a category, then answer its question
The Dozen	General knowledge	A daily round of mixed trivia with a leaderboard
Quizl	General knowledge	Five multiple-choice questions, no take-backs
Anything Grid	General knowledge	Fill a grid where the rarest answer scores best
Flagle	Geography	Name the country from its flag
Tradle	Geography	Name the country from its exports
MapTap	Geography	Find five places on a 3D globe
Immaculate Grid	Sports	Name players who fit both teams or stats
Poeltl	Sports	Guess the NBA player in 8 tries
Crossover Grid	Sports	A sports and movies grid
Spotle	Music	Guess the artist in 10 tries
Bandle	Music	Guess the song, one instrument at a time
Framed	Movies & TV	Guess the movie from 6 frames
Box Office Game	Movies & TV	Name a weekend's top five movies
TimeGuessr	History	Guess where and when a photo was taken
WhenTaken	History	The same challenge, with an archive
Wikitrivia	History	Put events in order on a timeline
Costcodle	Numbers	Guess the price of a Costco item
Magnitudle	Numbers	Estimate size, weight and scale
Krillion	Competitive	Rare answers score deeper
Alpha-Bit	Competitive	Each answer starts later in the alphabet
Hundo	Competitive	Bet a card on every question

What kind of trivia player are you?

• If you like general knowledge — Plinkle Trivia, The Dozen, Quizl, and Anything Grid
• If you like geography — Flagle, Tradle, and MapTap
• If you like sports — Immaculate Grid, Poeltl, and Crossover Grid
• If you like music — Spotle and Bandle
• If you like movies and TV — Framed and Box Office Game
• If you like history — TimeGuessr, WhenTaken, and Wikitrivia
• If you like numbers — Costcodle and Magnitudle
• If you've got a competitive streak — Krillion, Alpha-Bit, and Hundo

If you like general knowledge

The classic trivia question of the day, in four very different shapes. Start here if you want a little of everything.

Plinkle Trivia

Best for: Players who want a little luck mixed in with their knowledge.

Plinkle Trivia is our own game, and it plays like nothing else on this list. You slide a claw along the top of a peg board and drop a ball. Wherever it lands, that category's next question opens. Each category is a ladder five questions deep: the first is worth 10 points, the fifth is worth 50, and every landing moves that slot one rung harder, right or wrong.

Three wildcard cups hang in the pegs and pay a bonus if your ball drops in, with their category kept secret until it opens. You type each answer with the first letter of every word given, against a 25-second clock. Five drops, one board a day, and the same questions for everyone.

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The Dozen

Best for: Fans of bar trivia who want a scoreboard.

The Dozen is the daily spin-off of Barstool Sports' trivia competition show of the same name. Every day brings a new round of questions, and a counter keeps track of your guesses, your right answers and your misses as you go.

The questions lean toward pop culture and sports, and a daily leaderboard shows how your round stacks up against everyone else's. If you have ever argued about an answer at a pub quiz, this is your game.

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Quizl

Best for: A fast, no-fuss quiz with your morning coffee.

Quizl is one of the most-played daily trivia games on the web, and it keeps things simple: five new questions every day, the same five for every player. Each one is multiple choice, and you pick one answer per question with no take-backs, so your first instinct is your final answer.

There is no gimmick to learn, which is exactly the point. Answer all five, share your score to see how your friends stack up, and come back tomorrow to keep your streak alive. It is the one we would hand to someone who has never played a daily game before.

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Anything Grid

Best for: Players who know a lot of odd facts about a lot of things.

Anything Grid takes the sports-grid idea and opens it to the whole universe. Each square sits where a row category meets a column category, and you fill it with anything that fits both: a person, a place, a film, an animal, whatever you can defend.

The twist is in the scoring. The more niche your answer, the better it scores, so the obvious pick is rarely the best one. It rewards the player who goes one layer deeper than everyone else.

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If you like geography

Flags, exports and coordinates. A daily geography game is the most popular kind of trivia on the web, and these three each test a different skill.

Flagle

Best for: Anyone who can spot a flag at the Olympics.

Flagle gives you a mystery flag and six tries to name the country. Each wrong guess reveals more of the flag, so the game gets easier the longer you stay in it, and the challenge is to finish early.

Once you have it, the bonus rounds begin: the country's outline, its capital, its neighbors and more. That turns one flag into a full mini geography lesson, and it is what keeps Flagle fun long after you know every flag in Europe.

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Tradle

Best for: Geography fans who want something harder than flags.

Tradle shows you a treemap of one country's exports, where each rectangle is sized by that product's share of the total, and gives you six guesses to name the country. Lots of soybeans and iron ore? Lots of coffee? Cars and machinery? The shape of the economy is the clue.

Every wrong guess tells you three things: how many kilometers away the target is, which direction to head, and a proximity percentage, so a guess at 84% means you are getting warm. It runs on real trade data from the Observatory of Economic Complexity, so you learn something true every time you play.

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MapTap

Best for: People who think they could find anywhere on a map.

MapTap gives you five places a day and a spinning 3D globe. Tap where you think each one is, and the closer you land, the more you score. It sounds easy until the third place turns out to be a small town you have only read about.

Each location comes with a short story about its history, so a round is part quiz and part travel guide. Five taps, a score out of the maximum, and a share card to brag with.

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If you like sports

Daily sports trivia is where the most passionate players live. These three cover baseball, basketball and everything in between.

Immaculate Grid

Best for: Baseball fans first, and then every other sport.

Immaculate Grid is the game that made the trivia grid famous. You get a three-by-three board where every row and column is a team or a stat, and you have nine guesses to name a player who fits each square, such as someone who played for both the Mariners and the Cardinals.

It is powered by Sports Reference, so the answers are checked against real records. Baseball is the original, and there are now daily grids for men's and women's basketball, football, hockey and soccer too.

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Poeltl

Best for: NBA fans who know the bench as well as the starters.

Poeltl is the official NBA player-guessing game from the players' union, the NBPA. You have eight guesses to find the mystery player, and every guess is graded on team, conference, division, position, height, age and jersey number. Green is an exact match. Yellow is close: a team the player used to play for, a position they share, or a height, age or number within two.

Stuck? The Show Silhouette button gives you the player's outline as a hint. A new player drops every night at midnight Eastern. It plays like Wordle for hoopers, and it is the fastest way to find out how well you really know the league.

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Crossover Grid

Best for: Fans who follow more than one league.

Crossover Grid brings the grid format to a wide range of sports, with a new board every day. Fill each square with a player who fits both its row and its column, and try to finish the grid clean.

It also stretches past sports into movies, which makes it a good pick for the household where one person knows the box scores and the other knows the box office.

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If you like music

Name that tune, every day. If you have ever searched for a guess the song game, start with these two.

Spotle

Best for: Playlist obsessives who know every artist's backstory.

Spotle picks one mystery artist a day from a pool of about a thousand, and gives you ten guesses to find them. Every artist you guess is graded on debut year, solo act or band, popularity rank, gender, genre and country. A close tile means near, such as a debut within five years or a country on the same continent, and arrows tell you whether the answer debuted later or ranks more popular.

Stuck after six guesses? You can take one free hint from a pick of three, such as a collaborator or the artist's Grammy record, and it never costs you a guess. It plays like Wordle for music fans, and some days are a lap of honor while others are a real hunt.

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Bandle

Best for: Players with a good ear.

Bandle plays you a song one instrument at a time. First maybe just the drums, then the bass, then the guitar, and so on, and the fewer instruments you need, the better your score. It is surprising how often the bass line alone gives a song away.

There is a new song every day, plus themed packs and bonus rounds when you want more. It works just as well on your phone as on a laptop, so it is easy to play on the go.

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If you like movies and TV

Two games for film fans. If you want a movie guessing game to play every day, these are our picks.

Framed

Best for: Film buffs who notice the set dressing.

Framed shows you a single still from a movie and gives you six tries to name it. Every wrong guess reveals another frame, so the clues build from a mysterious shot of a hallway toward the scene everybody remembers.

There are now extra daily modes too: One Frame, which gives you just one still, Titleshot, and Poster. Missed a day? The archive lets you play every past round.

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Box Office Game

Best for: Movie fans who follow the opening-weekend numbers.

Box Office Game shows you a weekend and asks you to name the top five movies at the US domestic box office for it. Each row has hints you can open if you are stuck, but every hint costs you points. The round ends after ten wrong guesses, or once all five movies are revealed.

It is a different kind of movie trivia. Knowing the plot will not help you here, but remembering what everyone went to see that weekend will. The idea comes from the Blank Check podcast, and the box-office data comes from The Numbers.

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If you like history

Old photos and old events, every day. These three turn history class into a game you will actually want to play.

TimeGuessr

Best for: Detectives who love reading the details in an old photo.

TimeGuessr shows you a real historic photo and asks two questions: where was it taken, and when? You drop a pin on the map and slide to a year, and you score for how close you get on both.

The fun is in the clues. A car, a shop sign, the clothes people are wearing: every detail narrows it down. There is a daily challenge, a random mode, and a multiplayer mode for playing against friends.

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WhenTaken

Best for: TimeGuessr fans who want a second daily round.

WhenTaken asks the same two questions about a photo, when and where, as a daily game. Its own example shows the skill: a red double-decker bus means London, cars driving on the left, film grain instead of digital. Put the clues together and you can name the decade.

It has an archive of past days and a community section where players make their own rounds, so you will never run out of photos.

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Wikitrivia

Best for: Players who are sure they know which came first.

Wikitrivia gives you cards drawn from Wikipedia, each one an invention, a battle, a birth or a discovery, and asks you to place each card in the right spot on a growing timeline. Did the printing press come before or after the compass?

It sounds simple, but it gets hard fast as the timeline fills up and the gaps get smaller. Its daily mode gives everyone the same cards, so you can compare runs.

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If you like numbers

Trivia where the answer is a number. Get close, not just right.

Costcodle

Best for: Anyone who has walked out of Costco with more than they planned.

Costcodle shows you a Costco product and gives you six tries to guess its price. After each guess, an arrow tells you to go higher or lower, and the game also tells you when you are within 25 percent. Land within 5 percent of the real price and you win.

It is the price-guessing game show you grew up watching, shrunk to one item a day. Bulk-buyers have a real edge here.

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Magnitudle

Best for: Players with a good sense of scale.

Magnitudle is the home of Size It Up, a daily game about how big things really are. You match real-world things to their true scale, and there are daily versions for pop culture and geography too.

If one game is not enough, there is plenty more: Weigh It Up for weight, a one-guess Daily Question, a Weekly 1K with ten rounds on a theme, and a Survival Mode where you estimate fast to stay alive.

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If you've got a competitive streak

These three add a scoring twist on top of the questions, so it is not just about knowing the answer. It is about how you play it.

Krillion

Best for: Players who like to out-think the crowd.

Krillion gives everyone the same seven prompts a day, and scores you on how rare your answers are. An obvious answer barely counts. A rare one sinks you deeper, and the goal is to dive as far down as you can. It is one in a krillion, as the game puts it.

That changes how you play. You will find yourself skipping the first answer that comes to mind to hunt for one nobody else thought of. Unlimited mode, themed packs and an archive keep you busy after the daily dive.

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Alpha-Bit

Best for: Players who plan a few moves ahead.

Alpha-Bit is daily trivia with an alphabet rule. Each answer has to start with a letter later in the alphabet than the one before, and the smaller the jump, the more you score. If your last answer started with C, an answer that starts with D scores far more than one that starts with M. Jump too far too early and you run out of alphabet.

You play through seven levels, helping Wolfgang win seven battles. It is a clever way to turn a quiz into a puzzle, and it is very hard to put down.

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Hundo

Best for: Players who like to bet on themselves.

Hundo gives you ten trivia questions a day and a hand of cards, ace to ten. For each question you bet one card. Get it right and you score that card. Get it wrong and it burns. Each card plays once, and you have 20 seconds to answer.

The strategy is all in the betting. Save the ten for a question you are sure of, and win neighboring cards like a six and a seven for a run bonus. Play it perfectly and you hit a hundo: a score of 100.

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Daily trivia games: common questions

What is a daily trivia game?

A daily trivia game gives every player the same set of questions once a day. You play your round, share your score, and come back tomorrow for a new one. It is the format Wordle made famous, applied to trivia.

Where can I find a trivia question of the day?

Every game on this list puts out a new round each day. For classic general-knowledge questions, start with Plinkle Trivia, The Dozen and Quizl. For a single question with one guess, try Magnitudle's Daily Question.

Are these trivia games free?

Yes. Every game on this list is free to play in your browser, with no download needed. Some offer extra packs, modes or merchandise, but the daily round costs nothing.

What is the best daily trivia game to play with friends?

Anything with a shareable score works. For playing together in real time, TimeGuessr has a multiplayer mode. For a group chat, compare scores on Plinkle Trivia, Immaculate Grid or Hundo, where two players can take very different routes to the same number.

Build your daily trivia lineup

The best way to play is to build a small routine. Pick one game from your favorite category, one from a category you are bad at, and one wild card from the competitive section. Ten minutes a day, and you will be the one with the answer at the next pub quiz.

New daily trivia games launch all the time, so we will keep this list up to date. Looking for more? Our guide to the best daily puzzle games covers word and logic games, and Plinkle Trivia has a new board waiting for you today.