Free Daily Arcade Games — Palette, Bloom, and Sortl
Three arcade games with a daily twist. No guessing countries or cocktails — just colour, logic, and the quiet pull of a midnight reset.
The other kind of daily game
Most daily puzzle games are guessing games. You guess a word, a flag, a location, a cocktail. There's a fixed answer. You're right or you're wrong.
The three arcade games on Stoop work differently. There's no correct answer to look up after you play. Palette, Bloom, and Sortl are about making good moves — the better your execution, the higher your score. The puzzle resets at midnight and your streak counts the same way, but the game itself is closer to play than to trivia.
That combination — arcade mechanic, daily cadence — is rarer than it should be.
Palette
A colour swatch appears. Your job is to mix red, green, and blue sliders until your colour matches it.
Sounds simple. Your brain will convince you it is. It isn't.
Palette scores using Delta-E — a standard from colour science that measures perceived colour difference, not technical distance between RGB values. A Delta-E of 1 is barely noticeable to a trained eye. Under 3 is a genuinely good match. Under 1 is the kind of score you screenshot and send to someone.
If you work with colour — design, photography, print, paint — Palette will feel like a calibration test. If you don't, it'll feel like discovering you've been slightly wrong about colours your entire life. Either way: satisfying.
One target colour per day. Same for everyone.
Bloom
A 14×14 grid packed with six colours. You pick a colour from the palette and flood-fill from the top-left corner — every adjacent matching cell gets absorbed, expanding your territory. The goal is to take over the entire grid in as few moves as possible.
Par is calculated by a greedy algorithm that makes the best single move at each step. Beating par requires looking further ahead — not stressful, but satisfying in the way that any spatial puzzle is satisfying when the pieces fall into the right order.
The daily grid is generated from the date as a seed, the same for everyone. No database, no backend. It appears for one day and resets at midnight.
Sortl
Tubes filled with layered coloured liquid. You pour the top layer from one tube into another — but only onto a matching colour, or into an empty tube. The goal: get every tube sorted to a single colour in as few moves as possible.
Liquid sort is one of those puzzle formats where the rules are clear in thirty seconds and the strategy takes considerably longer. Every pour is permanent until you reset, so planning matters. The daily puzzles scale in difficulty through the week — Mondays are forgiving, Fridays less so.
The calmer end of the Stoop catalogue, if that's what you need.
More coming
The Stoop network is still growing. There are more games in planning — more arcade, some trivia for people who genuinely enjoy trivia, and a few things that don't have a clean category yet. The daily twist and the midnight reset are the constants. The rest is still being figured out.
All six games are at stoop.games — daily puzzles and arcade in one place. No account required. No ads. Resets at midnight.
Looking for the guessing games? See the best free daily geography games in 2026 or the full roundup of free daily browser games.