Curdle

Curdle takes the Wordle idea to the cheese counter. Each day there is one cheese, chosen from the day's number so everyone gets the same one. The photo starts zoomed in eight times, showing only rind, holes or paste, and widens with every miss.

You choose your guesses from the game's cheese list, which shows each cheese's milk, firmness and country flag and can be filtered by cow, sheep, goat or other milk and by soft, semi-soft, semi-hard or hard. After a wrong guess the game says what the answer is not and what it is, such as a cow's milk, hard cheese, once your guesses have matched those traits. After six misses it names the country the cheese comes from.

You have eight guesses, shown as a row of cheese wedges that turn to milk as you use them. A chart keeps your guess distribution, and you can share your score. The day's cheese is picked from a pool of 64 by a hash of the day's number, so the same cheese can come back within a few weeks, and regulars will meet familiar ones often.

Curdle is made by Gumbo Systems, who ask players to send in their own cheese photos. It suits anyone who knows their Comté from their Gruyère, or wants to learn.