Interview
Meet the Makers: Stephen Cassilo, Glyph
Stephen Cassilo turned a high school doodle into a popular daily word game where the puzzle is based on letter shapes.
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Directory
The makers behind the games
Creators and publishers that ship the daily games we love. New profiles added regularly.
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The trivia enthusiast and puzzle maker behind Yearbook.
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All makers & publishers
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Ben Ringel
Creator of Yearbook
Founder of Hindsight Games. Trivia enthusiast.
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Bennette Sebastian
Creator of Hunch
Bennette Sebastian is an indie game designer and developer known for the 5-letter word game, Hunch.
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Bleppo
Publisher of Word Salad
Independent puzzle studio founded by childhood friends Samuel and Mark.
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Catherine Cowie
Creator of Sexaginta-quattuordle
Creator of Sexaginta-quattuordle, a 64-board Wordle.
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Emplexity
Publisher of Squareword
Emplexity is an independent game studio with a variety of daily challenges.
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Flying Comet Games
Creator of Seattle Wordy
Flying Comet Games is an independent studio by Calli Fuchigami and Eden Ghirmai, making daily word and puzzle games for publications and players everywhere.
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Greatest Games
Creator of Rotato
Publisher of daily word, logic, visual, and crossword puzzles.
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Hindsight Games
Publisher of Yearbook
Home to games related to trivia, sports, and interesting reads under The Footnotes.
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Inkwell Games
Creator of Stars
Publisher of daily logic puzzles that are challenging yet approachable.
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Isaac Audet
Creator of Amountle
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Jack Schlesinger
Creator of Flipart
Game designer who builds the generators behind many Puzzmo puzzles.
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James O'Halloran
Creator of Kinda Hard Golf
Prince Edward Island indie game developer behind Kinda Hard Golf, Squishy Billiards, and Lawndle.
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James Robinson
Creator of Waffle
Creator of the hit word game Waffle and founder of Waffle Studios.
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Josh Wardle
Creator of Wordle
Created the worldwide hit game Wordle.
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Kelly Dornhaus
Creator of Xordle
Kelly Dornhaus is an independent game designer and developer known for creating popular Wordle-inspired puzzle games like Xordle
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LinkedIn
Creator of Queens
Publisher of daily word and logic puzzles including Queens, Pinpoint, Tango, and Zip.
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NYT Games
Creator of Wordle
Publisher of several daily games including the global hit, Wordle.
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OneLook
Publisher of Pandergram
Publisher of clever, ad-free word games shaped by decades of language and word-finding expertise.
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Paul Hebert
Creator of Tiled Words
Community-forward puzzle developer with an eye for design.
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Pauline Wee
Creator of Country Draw
Pauline is a designer and engineer with a unique graphic style.
- Creator Publisher
Ponder Club
Creator of Sudogoose
Ponder Club is a home for free daily brain games with no paywalls and no subscriptions built by Flying Comet Games.
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PuzzleLab
Publisher of PuzzleLab Summit
Publisher of word, logic, and math puzzles since 2025.
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Puzzleship
Publisher of Puzzleship Zebra Puzzles
Puzzleship is an independent studio publishing more than 50 daily logic, word, chess, solitaire, and brain games.
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Puzzmo
Publisher of SpellTower
A daily puzzle platform reimagining the newspaper games page.
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Wilf Ashworth
Creator of Cobble
Creator of the daily word game Cobble and various interactive web tools.
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Zach Gage
Creator of SpellTower
Designer of SpellTower and Really Bad Chess, and co-founder of Puzzmo.
