Daily Lingo

Daily Lingo is a free browser puzzle about famous phrases. Each numbered puzzle lays out a grid of single words: some of them belong to well-known sayings, quotes, film lines or proverbs ("the early bird catches the worm" is the example on the start screen), and the rest are decoys. Your job is to sort out which words go together and rebuild every phrase. The game is published by Orcas Labs, which links a few sister games from the menu.

A day's puzzle goes in guesses. You pick four words and submit them, and the game colours each word by the phrase it really belongs to, so even a wrong guess tells you something. You have nine guesses to complete all the phrases, there are no lives, and each phrase earns up to three stars depending on how quickly you pin it down.

The part that sets it apart is what happens after a phrase is solved: the game shows the full saying and a short note on where it comes from, such as the play, film, scientist or old proverb collection behind it, and often how the modern wording drifted from the original. Decoys are chosen to look as if they fit, so careful reading pays.

It suits people who like Connections-style grouping but prefer language and trivia to categories, and anyone curious about the history of everyday expressions. A puzzle takes a few minutes; streaks are tracked, with a streak freeze earned every seven days, and missed days can be played afterwards.