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Scrimp
playscrimp.comA daily word puzzle where the answers have to share letters to fit. You get a row of empty tiles and a set of clues, and the row is too short to hold the answers written out. CHAIR, HAIRY, AIRY and RYE are seventeen letters; they fit in seven tiles. Free, no account, one puzzle a day.
Scrimp
Words
Scrimp does not allow being embedded, so it opens on its own site. Everything else — likes, favourites, your ritual — still works here.
The facts
- Runs on
- playscrimp.com
- Category
- Words
- Type
- Crosswords
- Languages
- English
- How often
- A new puzzle every day
- On Alldle since
- September 2026
- Last updated
- September 24, 2026
- Price
- Free, no signup
Questions about Scrimp
- Is Scrimp free to play?
- Yes. Scrimp runs in a browser at no cost, with nothing to install and no purchase to make.
- How often does Scrimp reset?
- Once a day. Everybody gets the same puzzle, and a new one replaces it when the game's day rolls over.
- Can I play Scrimp unlimited?
- Not Scrimp itself, which gives one puzzle a day. The closest unlimited games to it in this directory, all of which you can replay as often as you like: Across the Word, AcrossWords and Fill-Ins. Across the WordAcrossWordsFill-Ins
- What languages does Scrimp support?
- English.
- Where does Scrimp run?
- On playscrimp.com. It declines to be embedded, so this page links you straight there instead.
- What kind of game is Scrimp?
- It sits in Words, alongside the other daily games of that kind in the catalogue.
How it compares
If you play Scrimp, the closest things to it in the catalogue are Word Grid, Tiled Words and The Mini Crossword. They share its crosswords. See the full list of alternatives.
