Concepto

Concepto hides one word each day. You start from one of three suggested words or type your own, and each guess appears as a card with its closeness percentage, a bar coloured by temperature (Frozen, Cold, Warm, Hot, Boiling) and a bridge word between your guess and the answer. On one day's puzzle, MUSIC came in Frozen at 12 percent with the bridge CONDUCTOR, while SCIENCE was Warm at 38 percent with the bridge SCIENTIST, which says where to look next.

The bridge words are what set it apart. Contexto and Semantle give a bare rank or score, and a search can run to hundreds of guesses; here each guess also hints at a direction. A tally under the cards keeps your attempts, your best guess and its link. A hint hub can reveal the word's category, its first and last letter and its length: the website gives two of these free each day, and the apps unlock all four.

The daily unlocks at midnight in your own time zone, keeps a streak, and ends with a result to share. An Unlimited tab gives practice words between dailies. The game is made by sirimiri labs. The website is free with no ads and no account; the iOS and Android apps play offline and sell a Pro upgrade with themes, statistics and the archive of past dailies, and the Android app is listed as containing ads.

It suits players who like Contexto or Semantle but want more of a pointer from each guess.