Daily mystery games
Daily mystery games give you one new case a day, the same for everyone, to solve by reasoning from the clues. The best known are Murdle and Clues by Sam; newer ones include Daily Murder, Daily Detective, Redacted, Mystery-o-matic and Hence, and Super Detective adds five cases every Monday. All of them are free to start in a browser. We make Lie of Sight, a cozy daily find-the-liar case, so it’s on the list too, described as plainly as the rest.
Daily mystery games at a glance
When a new case arrives, whether it costs anything, where it plays and how long a case takes, as each game says it.
| Game | New case | Free? | Plays on | Time per puzzle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lie of Sight | Every day, at midnight your time | Yes: the daily, plus 28 free cases | Any browser, phone or computer | 2 to 5 minutes |
| Murdle | Every day | Daily puzzle free; books sold | Browser; books | Varies |
| Clues by Sam | Every day, harder through the week | Daily puzzle free; puzzle packs sold | Browser | Varies |
| Daily Murder | Every morning | Yes | Browser; Android app | About 10 minutes |
| Daily Detective | Every day, at midnight UTC | Yes; optional premium | Browser | About 5 minutes |
| Redacted: Daily Case File | Every day | Free to start, with paid extras | Browser and mobile | Varies |
| Mystery-o-matic | Every day | Yes | Browser | Under 5 minutes |
| Cozy Culprits | Every day | Yes; the app has ads, with a one-time purchase to remove them | iPhone and iPad; browser as Murder Sudoku | About 5 minutes |
| Hence | Every day, harder through the week | Yes | Browser | Varies |
| Super Detective | Five new cases every Monday | Yes: the week’s cases; a pack of extra cases is sold each week | Any browser, phone, tablet or computer | Varies |
Checked on each game’s own site in October 2026. Prices and offers change, so check there too.
A new case every day
Each of these has one case a day. Lie of Sight’s changes at midnight your time, Daily Detective’s at midnight UTC, and Daily Murder’s each morning.
Lie of Sight
Ember Works LLC · Any browser, phone or computer
Our own game. Each day at midnight, your time, a new case: a room seen from above and four of the Fibberson family, each saying what they saw. One of them is lying, and you find out who by moving them around the room. There is no murder in it, and no sign-up to start.
Murdle
G. T. Karber · Browser; books
The best-known daily mystery, by G. T. Karber. Each day’s puzzle asks who did it, how, where and why, and you work it out on a logic grid. There are books of them too.
Clues by Sam
Sam, of Ad Artis · Browser
A grid of suspects, each innocent or a criminal, and a clue to start. Everyone speaks the truth, even the criminals, and the game only lets you mark what you can prove. It gets harder through the week.
Daily Murder
Mark Andrews · Browser; Android app
A fresh case every morning: witness statements, forensics and an elimination grid, until the killer, the weapon and the place are left. Free in a browser, with an Android app. Its maker puts a case at about ten minutes.
Daily Detective
FlyingLooper · Browser
A new case at midnight UTC with ten moves to solve it. You question suspects, examine the evidence and look for the contradiction, then accuse. The daily case is free, with an optional paid tier.
Redacted: Daily Case File
LFH Labs LLC · Browser and mobile
A daily case file from a small town, with five words blacked out. You fill each one in from what the rest of the file says, so it reads like a short story and solves like a puzzle. Free to start, with paid extras.
Mystery-o-matic
An open-source project · Browser
An open-source daily murder. You fill in who was in which room, and when, until the killer, the weapon and the hour fall out. Its makers say a case takes under five minutes.
Cozy Culprits
Alejandro Portillo Guerrero · iPhone and iPad; browser as Murder Sudoku
A daily case at three levels: place six suspects so no two share a row or a column, and the one sharing the victim’s room is guilty. An iPhone and iPad app, and free in a browser as Murder Sudoku. Its site says a case takes about five minutes.
Hence
Guy Malachi · Browser
Not a crime, but a daily deduction in the same spirit: use the clues to work out which picture goes where. The same puzzle for everyone each day, free, and harder through the week.
Daily murder mystery puzzles, and a cozy one
Most daily mystery games are murders: Murdle, Daily Murder, Daily Detective, Mystery-o-matic and Cozy Culprits each give you a victim, a few suspects and a killer to name.
If you would rather share one with the kids, Lie of Sight keeps the deduction and leaves out the body. Something has happened in the house, and one of the family is fibbing about what they saw. For three small whodunits like that to try right now, see mystery logic puzzles.
Free mystery games in your browser
Every game on this page plays in a web browser, on a phone or a computer, with nothing to download. A few also have an app. One more comes on a weekly schedule instead of a daily one:
Super Detective
Any browser, phone, tablet or computer
Five new cases every Monday instead of one a day. You place everyone on a floor plan, one per row and column, from the clues, and the killer is named. The week’s cases are free in any browser with no sign-up; a pack of extra cases is sold each week.
In the seven days to 8 October 2026, 218 of the 228 answers given on the daily case were right, about 96%: the puzzle is fair, not a trick. A Lie of Sight case takes 2 to 5 minutes.
Questions people ask
What is a daily mystery game?
A mystery puzzle with one new case a day, the same for everyone. You solve it by reasoning from the clues, then come back tomorrow for the next. Lie of Sight keeps a streak, and its result card shows how you did without giving the answer away.
Which daily mystery games are free?
All of the daily ones on this page are free to start. Some sell extras: books for Murdle, puzzle packs for Clues by Sam, a paid tier for Daily Detective, paid extras for Redacted, and a one-time unlock for Lie of Sight.
Is there a daily mystery game without a murder?
Yes. Lie of Sight is a cozy family puzzle with no murder in it. You’re not finding who did it, just who’s lying about what they saw.
Is Lie of Sight free?
Yes. The daily case is free every day, plus 28 free cases: 3 practice, 15 Case Files and 10 Tricky Cases. A one-time unlock adds more, with no subscription and no ads.
More lists like this one
New to Lie of Sight? How to play has the rules and the family, with pictures.
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