Daily5X: 16 October 2026

Daily5X is a five-clue anagram puzzle. Every answer in a puzzle is built from the shared letters shown in the Letter Wheel. Shorter answers may use only some of those letters; each clue starts with the full set available again.

Rules

1. Every blank uses letters from the same Letter Wheel, rearranged to make a word. You do not always need to use every letter.
2. Answers must use only letters from the shared set, with no letter used more often than it appears in the wheel.
3. Each clue expects a word that fits both meaning and grammar in the sentence.
4. The puzzle is solved only when all blanks are correct.

How To Play

1. Click a blank to make it active.
2. Type your answer in the input box.
3. Press Place Word (or Enter) to submit.
4. Use Shuffle to rearrange the letter order for a new perspective.

Keyboard and mobile controls

Use Tab to focus a blank and Enter or Space to select it. Type your word and press Enter to submit. On a touch device, start the game to use the letter wheel. Shuffle changes the order of the letters, not the answers.

If an entry is rejected, check its spelling, repeated letters and fit in the sentence. You can switch to another blank and return later.

Learn solving techniques or read what makes a puzzle difficult.

Scoring And Progress

• Your puzzle status is shown as Not Started, In Progress, or Completed.
• Completed puzzles are stored locally in your browser.
• Your streak tracks consecutive completed puzzle dates.
• The solve timer runs from your first action until completion and records shuffle count.

Example (Concept)

If the shared letters are R E A C T, valid anagrams might include words like trace or crate. The correct answer depends on which word fits the clue text.

Update Cadence

A new puzzle is intended to be available daily. If today's exact date is not available yet, the site may temporarily show the most recent available puzzle.

FAQ

Do I need an account? No. Progress is stored locally in your browser.

Can I replay old puzzles? Yes. Use the Archive page to open earlier puzzles.

Why is my progress missing? Clearing browser data, switching browsers, or using private mode can remove local progress.

Daily5X is a daily word puzzle operated by Steven Baker. Each dated puzzle pairs five sentence clues with one shared letter set. Finding a word in the letters is the first step; making it fit the meaning and grammar of a clue is the challenge.

The site is designed to be fast, lightweight, and easy to play on desktop and mobile without requiring sign-in.

Every published puzzle has a dated link in the archive, so you can return to a particular set of clues or share it with someone else. Personal progress and streaks are saved in your browser, without an account. Clearing browser storage removes that history. Anonymous play and solve totals are collected separately, as explained in the privacy policy.

Read about the older wordplay tradition, or use the How to Play guide for the rules and controls. If a clue seems ambiguous or a puzzle fails to load, send the puzzle date and clue number so the issue can be reviewed.

Questions, feedback, bug reports, or partnership inquiries are welcome.

Email: hello@daily5x.com

Please include your device/browser details if you are reporting a gameplay issue.

In short: Daily5X has no accounts and never asks who you are. Your entered words, personal puzzle history and streaks are stored in your own browser. Solve duration and shuffle count are also sent to our server when you complete a puzzle, to update aggregate totals. We do publish anonymous totals for each puzzle, such as how many people solved it. We show advertising through Google, which does use cookies.

Who is responsible

Daily5X is operated by Steven Baker, who is the data controller for the purposes of UK data protection law. For any privacy question, or to exercise the rights set out below, email hello@daily5x.com.

What stays on your device

The game uses your browser's local storage to remember which puzzles you have started and solved, the words you have entered, your solve times, your shuffle counts, your streak, and cached puzzle data so the site loads quickly. Entered words and personal history are not transmitted to us. Completion duration and shuffle count are sent separately for aggregate statistics, as described below. It stays on that browser until you clear it, and clearing it will reset your progress and streak.

Anonymous puzzle totals

When you press Start Game, and again if you finish a puzzle, the site sends a single message recording that a play or a solve happened, together with how long the solve took and how many shuffles were used. The gameplay payload contains the puzzle identifier and event type; a completion also includes duration and shuffle count. It contains no name, account or player identifier. Like other requests, it reaches our hosting provider with technical request information, including an IP address. It is added to a running total for that puzzle and shown publicly on the Archive page. The stored puzzle totals do not contain individual player records. Technical request logs are separate from those totals.

Visitor measurement

We use Vercel Web Analytics to count page views and visitors. Vercel describes this service as cookieless and does not track visitors across different websites. It counts visitors using a hash derived from request information, discarded after 24 hours. Page-view data can include the URL, referrer, approximate location, browser and device type. Vercel processes this data on our behalf as our hosting provider. See Vercel's analytics privacy documentation.

Advertising

We show advertising supplied by Google AdSense. You should know the following:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and other sites on the internet.
• You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
• You can opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info.
• More detail is in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

Google may provide a consent notice and privacy options according to the advertising configuration and your region. Where a notice appears, use its privacy options to review or change your choices. Playing Daily5X does not require an account or a purchase.

Server logs

Like any website, our hosting provider records technical information when a page is requested, including your IP address, browser type and the page requested. This is used to deliver the site securely and to diagnose faults, and is held for a short period by the provider.

Legal basis

We rely on our legitimate interest in running and improving a free puzzle game for the anonymous puzzle totals and visitor measurement, which are used for aggregate measurement. We rely on your consent for advertising cookies where consent is required, where required.

Children

Daily5X is suitable for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you have the right to access, correct, erase or restrict the personal data we hold about you, to object to processing, and to data portability. In practice we hold very little: your gameplay data is on your own device and can be erased by clearing your browser storage, and the puzzle totals are anonymous and cannot be linked to you. For anything relating to advertising data, Google holds that data and their policies apply.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Changes

If this policy changes materially we will update the date below and, where the change affects how your data is used, ask again for any consent required.

Last updated: 6 September 2026.

By using Daily5X, you agree to use the site lawfully and not attempt to disrupt, reverse engineer, or abuse the service.

The game and site content are provided "as is" without warranties. Availability, puzzle publication timing, and features may change at any time.

You are responsible for your own device, browser, and network environment when using the site.

Daily5X may link to or use third-party services (such as hosting, analytics, or advertising providers). Those services have their own terms and policies.

All site branding and original puzzle content are protected by applicable copyright and intellectual property laws.

If you do not agree with these terms, do not use the site.

Last updated: February 25, 2026.