LoLdle

LoLdle takes the Wordle idea and points it at League of Legends. Instead of a five-letter word, the daily answer is a champion, and instead of coloured letters you get coloured facts about each champion you guess: position, species, resource, range type, region, gender and release year. Green means a property matches, orange means a partial match and red means no match, with arrows telling you whether the release year is earlier or later.

The Classic mode is only the start. Quote mode shows a line the champion says in a game or in champion select, and you can hear it once you solve it. Ability mode shows the icon of one spell without its name, with an optional bonus round to name which key it sits on. Emoji mode reveals one emoji per try, and Splash mode shows a small crop of a splash art from any of the champion's skins. Each mode has its own answer for the day. In Classic, wrong guesses also unlock clues: a quote after 6 tries, an ability icon after 12 and a splash crop after 18. The other modes each hold one clue back until 6 tries: the voice line's audio in Quote, the spell's name in Ability and the champion's title in Emoji.

The game is made by Benjamin Widawski under Riot Games' fan content policy, and it is not endorsed by Riot. You pick a Europe or America time zone, which decides when your day turns over. The site and the apps show how many players have already found the champion and who yesterday's answer was. The game can be played in about 25 languages, from English, French and Spanish (with a Latin American Spanish option) to Korean, Arabic and Persian, and a temporary Worlds Mayhem mode lets you draft a roster from past World Championship teams.

It suits League players who know the roster well, and it is a gentle way to learn the parts of it you do not know. A full set of five modes takes about as long as a single draft.