Challenge a Friend
Enter any English word and share the link!
Enter any English word and share the link!
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How to play
Find the secret word. You have unlimited guesses.
Type a word and submit it. Each guess is ranked by how semantically close it is to the secret word.
Rank 1 means you found the word! A rank of 50 means your word is very close. A rank of 1000+ means it's far away.
GreenBlue = very close YellowOrange = getting warm Gray = far away
You have 3 hints per game. Each hint reveals a word and its rank to help guide you.
Share the link to challenge a friend with the same word!
Each guess is compared to the secret word using FastText word embeddings trained on Wikipedia and news text. Rank 1 is the exact match; rank 2 is its nearest semantic neighbour; and so on.
Yes. The daily puzzle is the same worldwide and is determined by the current UTC date.
At midnight UTC. After you solve the daily game, a countdown to the next puzzle appears on the victory screen.
Easy reveals a word roughly halfway between your best guess and the target. Medium reveals one just slightly closer than your best. Hard picks a word at an unpredictable rank — riskier, but sometimes more useful for breaking out of a rut.
Only lowercase English words of at least 2 letters are accepted. Very rare words, proper nouns, and non-English terms may not be in the vocabulary.
Daily is a single shared puzzle that rotates every day. Practice gives you a new random word each time, with a shareable link. Challenge lets you pick any word yourself and send a friend a link to guess it.
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