Games like Contexto: daily word games guessed by meaning

The closest games are the other hot-and-cold meaning games. Semantle, which came first, gives each guess a similarity score instead of a rank, so you learn to read numbers rather than positions. Cemantle shows a temperature for every guess, and Pimantle plots your guesses around the answer on a radial chart, which makes it easier to see which direction you are heading. Clueless from Lessgames ranks guesses by similarity and lets you compare your count with the day's other players.

If an unlimited hunt is too long for you, Lexicle limits you to eleven guesses at a five-letter word and adds a hint with each one, so a round ends sooner. Anoun is about nouns only: each wrong guess tells you a trait it shares with the answer, so it plays more like twenty questions.

The same idea works in other languages. Cemantix is the French game and Semantle Korean the Korean one; Contexto itself has Portuguese and Spanish versions.

For a longer puzzle built on the same instinct, Redactle blacks out a whole Wikipedia article and you guess words to reveal it until you can name the title; Pedantix is its French version. Start with Semantle or Pimantle beside Contexto, and try Lexicle on days when you want a short one.