Comparle

Comparle, a play on compare and the French parler, is a word-of-the-day game about the words other languages have. Each puzzle opens with the word and a pronunciation guide, such as koselig, sounds like KOO-suh-lee, and four rounds follow: the language, the moment you would use it, the place you would hear it, and its meaning.

Each round sets its answers around a radar (the help page says four; today's language round showed three). If you are sure, tap one; if you are torn between two, place your dot between them, which pays better than a wild guess. A round is worth up to 125 points and the colour of your result says how close you were. Peek at others shows where other players put their dot for half the round's points, and hearing the word spoken costs 30.

After the four rounds comes the last word: type the meaning in one English word to double your score, get one and a half times it for a close word, or halve it for a miss, or keep what you have. A streak grows with every day you play, a share card leaves out the word, and Practice and Blind modes sit beside the daily word. It has English and Dutch editions and can be installed on a phone's home screen.