Neograms

Neograms is a free browser puzzle by N.M.A. Pitman, who also makes Clue Raider. Its daily follows the Rosetta Stone format used in linguistics olympiads: you are shown sentences in a language you have never seen, each paired with an English translation, and you work out how the language behaves.

Every language is invented for the puzzle, so nobody starts with an advantage. Each day's language has its own name, such as Aldorân on 19 October 2026 or Varkùl on 7 November. It is written in a glyph script where one glyph is always the same word. Small marks above, beside or below a glyph change it, the way an ending changes a word in English. One mark may turn a noun plural, another makes it possessive, and some days add negation or mark the past and future on the verb. Word order can differ from English as well.

A day's board has three parts. The clue list shows four or five glyph sentences with their English. On 7 November there were five, about a mule, an apprentice and a spirit hall. The Decode box shows a glyph phrase with a row of letter boxes for its English meaning. The Encode box gives an English sentence and a few empty slots for you to fill with glyphs. You fill in both, then press the check button. Tapping a glyph or an English word colours the ones that match, which helps you line up words across sentences. A timer runs while you play, and Hints give a nudge when you are stuck.

Below the daily, the home page lists the last seven daily puzzles so you can catch up on missed days, plus a set of bonus puzzles in other invented languages. Solving produces a short result with your time, attempt and hints used to copy or share.

It suits players who like logic puzzles, codes or languages and want something slower than a word guess. The puzzles are small enough to finish in a short sitting, though spotting how the marks combine takes some care.