FridgleToday's theme: letters
A free daily word game: everyone gets the same fridge-magnet tiles, and you write the poem.
Tap a tile below to start your poem.
The poems people liked most, from every day so far.
Fridgle is a free daily word game built on an old kitchen habit: fridge-magnet poetry. Every day at 00:00 UTC, everyone playing in the same language gets the same set of about 36 word tiles. You tap them onto a fridge door, shuffle them around, and keep going until the lines sound right. There is no timer, no score and no single correct answer.
That shared set is the point. One group of words can turn into a love note, a weather report or a strange little dream, and the wall below the fridge shows how differently people read the same tiles. Each day also has a theme, such as sky, kitchen or winter, so about a third of the tiles lean the same way. Fridgle runs in English, Spanish, French and German, and every language gets its own tiles rather than a translation.
Behind every puzzle is a word bank of around two thousand words per language, chosen for how well they combine. Each daily draw mixes everyday words with a few rarer, more literary ones, avoids repeating the words of the past month, and always includes enough small connecting words to build real sentences.
Here is a small set of tiles and three poems built from it. No poem uses a tile twice, and none of them needs every tile. That freedom is what makes each day's wall worth reading.
Most tiles are plain words, but a few behave differently. Knowing them makes the tray much easier to read.
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and small function words such as the, of and you. Around eleven nouns and seven verbs appear in every puzzle, plus the little words that hold sentences together.
Yellow tiles with a dash are endings. Place one right after a word and they join without a space, so hum and -s become hums. English puzzles use -s, -ed, -ing, -ly and -er.
Some words carry a ↻ button once they are on the fridge. Tap it to switch between forms of the same word, for example hum, hums, hummed and humming.
German puzzles include one ⁀ tile. Put it between two words and they merge into a compound, the way German builds new words: Mond + Licht becomes Mondlicht.
New line starts the next line of your poem. Line breaks are free and don't count as tiles, even in hard mode.
Each puzzle leans towards one of thirty themes. About a third of the day's tiles belong to it, and the rest pull in other directions. Tap a theme to open the most recent day it appeared.
There is no wrong answer, but some habits make fridge poems stronger.
Switch on hard mode and the puzzle asks for an exact number of tiles, between 5 and 12. The number changes every day and is shown next to the switch.
It rewards editing more than adding: start with a longer poem, then remove tiles until every one earns its place. Line breaks don't count, so a very short poem can still have shape.
A free daily magnet poetry game. Everyone gets the same set of word tiles each day and arranges them into a short poem.
Yes. It is free to play, works in the browser and needs no account.
Every day at 00:00 UTC. Everyone playing in the same language gets the same tiles.
Yes. Every earlier day stays playable in the archive, and Unlimited deals a fresh set of tiles whenever you want one.
An optional challenge that asks you to use an exact number of tiles, from 5 to 12, shown next to the switch.
They are word endings like -s or -ing. Place one right after a word and the two join into one word.
No. You can post today's pinned poem to the wall with an optional name. Each browser can post one poem per day, and poems are checked before they appear.
No. It is an independent fridgle-style game in four languages and is not affiliated with fridgle.net or its creator.