Games Like Clues by Sam
About Games Like Clues by Sam
Clues by Sam is a daily logic puzzle about a grid of people, some innocent and some criminal. Each clue you uncover is true, and from them you work out who is which, one deduction at a time; the puzzles get harder from Monday to Sunday. Murdle, by G. T. Karber, wraps the same kind of reasoning in a daily murder mystery: you cross off suspects, weapons and places in a logic grid until only one story fits. What both get right is fairness. Nothing is left to luck, every answer can be proved from the clues, and the pleasure is the moment it all clicks into place.
We have no who-did-it puzzle yet, and none of the games here has characters to question. What they share is the method: honest clues, one answer and no guessing. Dig Site is a daily hunt solved from soil readings, Thimbly is a picture-logic grid where the row and column counts lead to the only solution, and Daily IQ is ten reasoning puzzles a day that a solver has proved. They are our own games, and Gamefinity is not affiliated with Clues by Sam or Murdle. All are free in your browser on a phone or a computer, and Dig Site and Daily IQ are among our Daily Games, the same for everyone.
Each pick next to Clues by Sam
None of these names a culprit; each one shares the way of thinking.
| Game | The puzzle | What it shares with Clues by Sam | What's different |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dig Site | Find a buried artifact in a 12×12 grid in six digs or fewer | A daily grid solved from honest clues, the same for everyone, where only one square fits them all | The clues are soil readings of distance and line, not statements by people, and sundown comes after two minutes |
| Thimbly | A nonogram: fill squares to match the counts on every row and column | Pure deduction with exactly one solution, and no guessing ever needed | Numbers instead of clues in words, three new hoops every game, and no daily set |
| Daily IQ | Ten reasoning puzzles a day | A daily puzzle where every answer can be proved, ending on genuinely hard ones | Multiple choice, one puzzle at a time, with number series, matrices and mirror images |
A daily grid solved from honest clues
Dig Site is the closest in feel. An artifact is buried somewhere in a 12×12 dig, and each trench you open reads the soil: scorching, hot, warm, cool or cold, by how many squares away the find is, plus a pottery shard when the find lies in the same row, column or diagonal. The soil never lies, so two or three trenches leave one square that fits them all, and the skill is reading them fast. Everyone digs the same sites in the same order each day, as many as you can before sundown, and the share line is a row of squares.
Logic grids that never need a guess
Thimbly is a nonogram with a needlework look. The numbers along each row and column say how many squares to stitch and in what runs, and you find the squares that every possible placement agrees on, then let each answer feed the lines it crosses. Before a pattern reaches you, a solver proves it has exactly one solution that line logic finds, so, like Clues by Sam, it never asks you to guess. A game is three hoops, 5×5, 8×8 and 10×10, and nothing tells you about a stray stitch until you check.
A daily test where every answer is proved
Daily IQ is ten puzzles a day: number sequences, letter series, matrix puzzles, odd ones out and mirror images. A solver checks each one against a library of rules and keeps it only when exactly one answer fits, and the test ramps like a week of Clues by Sam, from warm-ups to two genuinely hard puzzles at the end. There is no clock on a question, though a fast answer scores more, and your result is set against today's players.
How to choose
Pick Dig Site for a daily grid you crack from clues, Thimbly for longer, calmer logic, and Daily IQ for a quick test of reasoning. More are on the logic puzzles page, and the games like LinkedIn games page has quick logic grids such as mini sudokus.
Frequently asked questions
Can I play more than one puzzle a day?
Dig Site, Thimbly and Daily IQ are each one go a day, the same for everyone, with new puzzles at midnight New York time. For more, the logic puzzles page has games that deal new puzzles every time you play.
Is Gamefinity affiliated with Clues by Sam or Murdle?
No. Clues by Sam and Murdle are made by their own creators, and Gamefinity is not affiliated with either. These are our own puzzles, which share their fair, clue-by-clue logic.
Are these games free?
Yes. They are free in your browser on a phone or a computer, with no download and no sign-up. Signing in is only needed for the leaderboards.