The Best Daily Trivia Games Like Wordle in 2026
The daily trivia games worth a slot beside Wordle, in order: the ones that changed what a right answer means, the classic once-a-day sets, and which to pick.
Introduction
Wordle's format, one puzzle a day and a grid to share, was copied so widely that the interesting question in 2026 is not which clone is best but which ones test something different. Trivia is where the format has done the most: a daily trivia game can ask about anything, and the good ones have found a twist that makes the question harder than recall. Here are the ones worth a slot, in order, with what each one tests and whether it lets you play more than once.
1. Krillion: The Rare Answer Wins
The Krillion game is the one genuinely new idea on this list. Every prompt is open, name a city in California, name a bird, and every answer is graded by how many other people would have given it. Los Angeles is worth almost nothing; Tehachapi sinks you to the trench floor. Seven prompts, 25 seconds each, and your score is a depth. It rewards the corners of what you know rather than the centre, which is the opposite of every quiz you grew up with. Krillion Unlimited deals fresh prompts as often as you like, and an Endless mode deals them one at a time until your air runs out.
2. Fermi: Trivia With a Number for an Answer
Fermi asks how many, how far or how long: how many trees on Earth, how many heartbeats in a match. Nobody knows, so the game marks how many times off you were, and any guess within ten times keeps your run alive. It is trivia in the sense that the answers are real, sourced figures, and it is the only game here where reasoning beats recall outright. The Fermi game with no daily limit is Fermi Unlimited.
3. Size It Up: Trivia by Eye
Size It Up asks the same kind of question visually: an outline of a T. rex or the Titanic beside a school bus, stretched to the size you believe. Scored as a ratio, five rounds a run. It is the size comparison game that went around streams this month, and the version here has no daily cap.
4. Tightrope, by Britannica
Britannica's daily trivia is a short themed set each day with the encyclopedia's own fact-checking behind it, which is rarer than it should be. Well written, no nonsense, and strictly once a day.
5. The Dozen
Twelve questions a day, timed, with a scoreboard against everyone else who played. The closest thing here to a pub quiz, and the one to play with a group in the same room.
6. JetPunk Daily Trivia
JetPunk's daily set comes from the site's enormous quiz library, with its usual strengths: a leaderboard and a very large community. Dry, fast, once a day.
What to Skip
Anything that asks you to install an app for a daily trivia set, and any unlimited clone that copies another game's questions. The games above all run in a browser, and the three at the top write their own.
Which One to Play
If you want a trivia game that plays against your own knowledge rather than a question writer, Krillion. If you would rather reason than remember, Fermi. If you think in pictures, Size It Up. For a classic short daily set, Tightrope. All three of Daily's run without a limit, so they also work as practice rather than a single morning ritual.
The Short Version
The best daily trivia games like Wordle in 2026 are the ones that changed what a right answer means: Krillion pays for the rare one, Fermi for the reasoned one, Size It Up for the well-judged one. Start with whichever description made you want to argue.
About the author
Emma co-founded Daily to turn the simple puzzles she loved as a kid into a shared daily ritual. She grew up racing through word and logic games and still believes the best ones are equal parts nostalgia and genuine challenge.