Daily guessing games
Seven games, three of them live every day, six guesses each. All free and none of them need an account.
Each game hides one answer and scores every wrong guess for how close it landed, then opens another clue. What "close" means changes from game to game: distance on the map for country, city and dog breed, a gap in a number for element, mountain and painting, and shared traits for animal. The four games not running today stay open as practice, which never affects a streak.
Guess the country
Guess the country is a daily geography game with one country to name and six guesses to do it in. Type any of the 189 countries in the set and the game tells you how far your guess sits from the answer and which direction to travel. There is no map and no outline to read, which is deliberate: the country is shown by a landmark or a landscape when the round ends, so no disputed border is ever drawn.
Distance and direction. Clues: Continent, Population, Area, Currency, Capital starts with, Capital.
Guess the city
Guess the city is a daily game about placing somewhere on the globe from distance alone. One city is the answer, you get six guesses, and the pool runs to 750 cities worldwide. As with the country game the feedback is geographic rather than alphabetical, so a good guess is one that narrows the map rather than one that shares a letter.
Distance and direction. Clues: Continent, Hemisphere, Population, Letters, Starts with, Country.
Guess the animal
Guess the animal is the one game in the set that does not run on distance. There are 73 animals in the pool and six guesses to find the day's answer, and every miss is scored on shared traits instead of geography. It rewards thinking in categories: what the animal eats, where it lives, what class it belongs to, and roughly what it weighs.
Traits and weight. Clues: Class, Diet, Habitat, Found in, Lifespan, Weight.
Guess the element
Guess the element turns the periodic table into a number hunt. One of 95 elements is the answer, you have six guesses, and every miss tells you how far off the atomic number is and which way to move. If you can picture roughly where a handful of elements sit in the table, you can bisect your way to almost any answer inside four guesses.
Hunt the atomic number. Clues: Category, State at room temp, Period, Atomic mass, Symbol starts with, Symbol.
Guess the mountain
Guess the mountain is a daily game about height. One peak out of 698 is the answer, you get six guesses, and every miss tells you how far off the elevation is and whether to climb or descend. Knowing a few reference peaks and their rough heights is most of the skill, because the feedback orders the whole field by a single number.
Climb toward the height. Clues: Continent, Height band, Letters, Starts with, Height to the nearest 500 m, Height.
Guess the painting
Guess the painting is a daily art game played on the calendar rather than the canvas. One work out of 727 is the answer, you have six guesses, and every miss tells you how many years off you are and which direction to move. You are dating the painting first and identifying it second, which makes it playable even if you know the period better than the picture.
Work back through the years. Clues: Century, Half of the century, Letters, Title starts with, Artist's initials, Artist.
Guess the dog breed
Guess the dog breed is a daily game about where dogs come from. One breed out of 359 is the answer and you have six guesses, and every miss tells you how far its homeland sits from the answer's and which way to go. It is a geography puzzle wearing a dog costume, so the winning move is to think about countries of origin rather than about size or coat.
Track it back to where it was bred. Clues: Bred in, Hemisphere, Letters, Starts with, Country starts with, Country.
Which one should I start with?
Country is the most forgiving, because most people can place a few dozen countries well enough to make the first guess useful. Element is the most mechanical: if you know roughly where a handful of elements sit in the table you can halve the range with every guess. Painting is the one you can play without recognising the picture, since the feedback is entirely about the year.
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