Clueless

Clueless is one of the daily games from Lessgames, the site behind Songless and Wordless. Each day has one secret word, and every player hunts the same one. There are no letters to go on and no definition; the only feedback is how close in meaning each of your guesses is.

You type a word and the game gives it a number: the lower the number, the closer the word is to the answer. A coloured bar shows the same thing at a glance, green and long for a warm guess, red and short for a cold one. Your guesses stay in a list sorted from closest to farthest, so you can read it for patterns, find the topic and then the word itself. Very common words are refused, so you cannot simply list filler words to scan the field.

If you are stuck you can take a hint from the menu beside the guess box, but each one adds three guesses to your score, and you can give up to see the answer. When you finish, the game shows how your guess count compares with other players that day and what share of players failed. A new word arrives at midnight by your own clock. The daily game is free with no sign-up; playing past days from the calendar needs a Lessgames subscription.

It plays in the same family as Semantle and Contexto and suits players who like thinking about how words relate rather than how they are spelled.