Medical games and quizzes
Free daily medical puzzles from an Australian GP. Play a medical Wordle, a daily anatomy quiz, a twice-weekly ECG quiz, a medical mini crossword and a cryptic, medical trivia, and diagnosis games that make you think like a doctor.
Most games are new every day at midnight, Sydney time, and get harder through the week: Easy on Monday, Genius on Sunday. They suit medical and nursing students, doctors, nurses, paramedics and anyone curious about the body. Every game is free, with no sign-up and no ads.
Word games
Medical Wordle, crosswords, word search, spelling bee and sudoku.
- Wordemic: a daily medical Wordle. Guess the five-letter medical word in six tries.
- Comorbix: a daily medical connections game. Sixteen terms, four hidden groups.
- Gridectomy: a daily medical mini crossword. Five by five, medical clues.
- Morphemia: a daily medical spelling bee. Make words from seven letters around a centre letter.
- Suturix: a daily medical word search with a hidden theme.
- Linkase: a daily medical word chain. Each word links to the next.
- Sudokrine: a daily medical sudoku with a hidden word.
Quizzes
Medical trivia, diagnosis games, rare diseases and test accuracy.
- Triviosis: a daily medical trivia quiz. Ten questions, one theme, every answer explained.
- Dxtective: a daily diagnosis game. Six clues, one fictional patient, name the condition.
- Zebritis: a daily rare disease quiz game where the rarest right answer scores most.
- Sensitosis: a daily sensitivity and specificity game. How good are real medical tests?
Practice quizzes (any time)
Not daily: play as often as you like.
- Anatomy quiz: brain, skull, muscles, bones, heart, limbs, head and neck.
- ECG quiz: practise ECG interpretation with real-style strips.
- Medical terminology quiz: prefixes, suffixes and roots, plus a cheat sheet.
Image, ECG and blood test quizzes
Anatomy quiz, X-ray quiz, spot the diagnosis, ECG quiz and blood results.
- Anatomegaly: a daily anatomy quiz. Five rounds of structures, bones and nerves.
- Arrhythmix: a free ECG quiz every Monday and Thursday.
- Opacitis: a daily X-ray and radiology quiz using real images.
- Glimpsis: a daily spot-the-diagnosis photo quiz using real clinical images.
- Panelysis: a daily blood test quiz. Read the results, name the diagnosis.
Weekly specials
A medical cryptic crossword on Saturday, hard trivia on Sunday.
- Cryptoplexy: a weekly medical cryptic crossword, every Saturday.
- Grand Rounds: a weekly hard medical trivia quiz, every Sunday.
Arcade
Quick bonus games for a break.
- Stackulus: a falling-block arcade game with organs and a daily challenge.
- Mergeon: an organ merge game. Drop, match and merge from microbe to brain.
- Basil + Clover: a cat arcade game. Kick things off the bench, then survive the vet.
Past puzzles and answers
Missed a day? Every past puzzle, with answers and explanations: Dxtective · Wordemic · Comorbix · Linkase · Triviosis · Zebritis · Panelysis · Glimpsis · Opacitis · Sensitosis · Anatomegaly · Arrhythmix · Cryptoplexy · Grand Rounds.
Common questions
Are there free medical games online?
Yes. Every Malady Wise game is free to play in your browser, with no sign-up, no download and no ads. Most are new every day at midnight, Sydney time.
Is there a medical version of Wordle?
Yes. Wordemic is a daily medical Wordle-style game: guess the five-letter medical word in six tries.
Are there games for medical and nursing students?
Yes. The anatomy quiz (Anatomegaly), ECG quiz (Arrhythmix), blood test quiz (Panelysis) and X-ray quiz (Opacitis) are good daily practice, and difficulty rises through the week.
Do I need to be a doctor to play?
No. Early-week puzzles suit anyone curious about health, and the word games and arcade games need no medical knowledge at all. Prefer no medicine? Switch on Normie mode at the top of any game.
Are the cases real?
No. Every patient and case is fictional. Clinical photos and scans are real and credited. It is general education, not medical advice.
All cases are fictional. General education, not personal medical advice.