Daily Bible Crossword
One shared puzzle each day for everyone, generated from clues spanning Genesis to Revelation. Switch to practice mode for unlimited fresh grids.
Across
- 2. Prayed for a son and lent him to the Lord
- 5. Swallowed by a great fish
- 6. Seller of purple whose heart the Lord opened
Down
- 1. Garden of the Lord's agony and prayer
- 3. Empty on the first day of the week
- 4. Apostle to the Gentiles, once called Saul
Leaderboard
The twenty highest scores for this game, by day, week, month and all time.
About Daily Bible Crossword
The crossword works from definition to word: you are given a description and have to produce the term, which is harder — and more useful — than recognising a term you are shown.
Clues here span Genesis to Revelation, and they lean on the kind of detail that makes a passage memorable: the bird that returned to Noah with an olive leaf, the mountain where the law was given, the Moabite who refused to go home. Answering means holding both the story and the specific word.
One shared puzzle is generated each day for everyone, so a daily player and a friend are working the same grid. Practice mode generates unlimited fresh grids from the same clue bank when you want more.
Crossword clues are necessarily compressed, and compression can flatten a story. A clue that reads 'judge whose strength lay in his hair' is a fair pointer to Samson, but the account in Judges 13-16 is considerably more complicated than the clue, and worth reading for that reason.
How to play
- 1.Open the daily grid, or switch to practice mode for a fresh one.
- 2.Select a clue, then type the answer into the highlighted squares.
- 3.Work the crossings — a confirmed letter from an intersecting answer is usually the quickest way in.
- 4.Complete the grid to finish; each clue carries its category and, where relevant, its reference.
What it reinforces
- Recall of names, places and terms from a description rather than a list.
- Spelling of biblical names, which crosswords are unforgiving about.
- Breadth across both Testaments in a single sitting.
- The habit of connecting a detail back to the passage it comes from.
What to notice while you play
- Clues whose category you rarely see — they mark unfamiliar territory.
- Answers you know as a word but could not place in a story.
- Names with more than one common spelling in English.
- How many clues come from a handful of chapters in Genesis, Exodus and the Gospels.
Taking it into your Bible reading
After the grid is done, pick the two clues that took longest and look up their references. Read the surrounding paragraph rather than the single verse. A clue gives you a fact; the paragraph gives you the reason the fact was recorded.
If you play daily, keeping a short list of the answers you had to guess turns into an accurate map of what you have not yet read.
Passages to read
- Genesis 6-9 — The flood account, a frequent source of clues and richer than the summary.
- Judges 13-16 — Samson's account in full, rather than the one detail everyone remembers.
- Ruth 1-4 — A short book, readable in one sitting, behind several familiar names.
- Exodus 19-20 — Sinai, the law and the mountain.
Read these in full rather than as single lines. A game can only point at a passage; the passage itself is the thing worth your time.
Keep learning
- Bible Word Search — the same vocabulary approached by theme.
- Guess the Bible Character — identify people from their details.
- FaithTrainer articles — longer writing on the passages behind the clues.
Prefer hunting words in a grid? Try Bible Word Search.