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Your puzzle opens in a moment.
Each day, one word appears in one of 77 languages, with its English meaning. You have six guesses to work out which language it came from.
Start typing a language and pick it from the list. Every wrong guess tells you how close you were, and unlocks a hint.
Hints arrive in a fixed order, each narrower than the last: where it's spoken, roughly how many speak it, its family, how many countries it's official in, and the country with the most speakers.
A new word at midnight UK time, the same one for everybody. Missed a few? The clock button opens past puzzles.
Five hundred everyday words translated into 77 languages, with anything resembling the English filtered out — a word that gives itself away isn't much of a puzzle. Language facts come from Wikipedia, with speaker counts shown as ranges because nobody agrees on exact figures.
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Guess the language in six tries.
Each day you get one word, and what it means in English. Type a language and pick it from the list.
After every guess you'll see how close you were:
Every wrong guess also unlocks a hint, each narrower than the last:
A new word every day at midnight.