Why I collect DLES

# The DLES.gg Manifesto Source: [https://dles.gg/blog/dles-gg-manifesto](https://dles.gg/blog/dles-gg-manifesto) Oh hi\! You were asking why does this website even exist? **TLDR:**It has 2 goals\. 1. To become the best place for daily game players to discover newgamesDaily Logic Exercises \(DLES\)\. 2. To become the best place for daily game makers to launch their newWordle clonesunique games\. ## How it all started you asked? OK then, some 3 years ago I accidentally made a little daily game called[Rotaboxes](https://rotaboxes.com/)— it's super niche, ~5k monthly players, very relaxing and I really enjoy working on it in my spare time\. Some time ago I noticed some traffic coming from sites that seemed like DLES aggregators, most notably[dles\.aukspot\.com](https://dles.aukspot.com/)\. So of course I went there and discovered many more daily games I never knew existed\. I was back then playing daily just Wordle, Nerdle and Rotaboxes\. And I was immersed — I started to play from 5 to 10 DLEs every single day, and I kept noting the good ones and kept on playing them regularly\. So that's how my little DLE collection started\. I started to categorize, group, order and most importantly I built my own daily ritual\. Then I was browsing Reddit and noticed some people complaining about playing so many games daily that they forget to play some and lose their streak, so I thought — hmm, maybe my ritual could be helpful to others\. I put together a plan and started building\. Today, some 1 year later, the site serves thousands of players monthly and features 3 to 4 new daily games every single week\. That's crazy, isn't it? ## A couple of rules, so we understand each other\. 1. All the games listed on dles\.gg are played and tested manually by me\. 2. I don't list games that are not daily\. 3. I don't list games that are not browser based\. 4. I don't list games that are not free to play\. 5. I don't list games that I don't like\. 6. I don't care if you made your game by hand, pixel by pixel, or if you used AI tools to build it or generate assets — but I hate slop\. If the game lacks love, care, and a proud ownership with a human behind it, I won't list it\. 7. I make a subjective call on whether to list a game based on a bunch of criteria \(I'll write about these later\)\. ## How can you help If you regularly play a game I don't have in my collection, submit it[here](https://dles.gg/submit-game)\. If you made a game I don't have in my collection, submit it also there \(ha, it's the same place\)\. If you love a game — add it to your ritual\. You will never forget to play it and it will increase the game's popularity and help it rank higher in the[most\-popular](https://dles.gg/games/most-popular)section\. If you feel strongly about a game, rate it\! 5 stars for absolute must\-play, 1 star to be avoided, and anything in between\. This helps other players discover the best games in the[top\-rated](https://dles.gg/games/top-rated)section\. As you can imagine, it's near impossible to play all839games every day, and as we all know, maintaining a daily game is a lot of work — so sometimes, some games just stop working\. If you spot one, please click on that**Report broken**button\. I regularly check these and remove games from the site if they are no longer active\. Thank you\. If you'd like your favourite game to be featured, get in touch at[peter@dles\.gg](mailto:[email protected])— we'll figure something out\. Oh, and you're asking how you can help personally? Amazing\! Submit games, rate games, add them to your ritual — that all helps others a lot\! Share your ritual with your friends\. If you want to support this site financially, I accept coffee donations through[BuyMeACoffee](https://buymeacoffee.com/trizo)\(btw, this will also unlock the entire[rotaboxes\.com](https://rotaboxes.com/)archive for you\)\. So that's it, really\. Happy solving\. \-Peter