Forbidden 7

Forbidden 7 comes from Humdle Ltd, who also make the music game Humdle. Its idea is simple: each day seven letters are struck from the keyboard, shown in red under the word line, and every word you play has to avoid them.

In Classic you type words and press Enter. Each accepted word adds to your score, and a bar of ranks fills as you go, from Warming up onward. Below it a row of blank tiles shows the length of the day's grail word, for example a grail of 14 letters, and hints can reveal parts of it.

Quick mode is built for a short break: about three minutes and one big word, racing to reveal the grail. It has its own seven forbidden letters, different from the Classic ones on the same day, and a timer counts your time. Both modes refresh every day, and the game keeps a daily streak and a trophy case of badges to collect.

It suits players who like open-ended word hunts such as Spelling Bee but want a different constraint: instead of seven letters you may use, seven you may not.

The game is free, needs no account and shows no ads. It plays the same on a phone and a desktop, with an on-screen keyboard that leaves out the banned letters.