Nounable

Nounable is a free daily word game in which the secret is a proper noun: a specific person, place, film, band, brand, landmark or fictional character. There is one puzzle a day, and the site says everyone in the world gets the same answer.

Every guess is ranked by how semantically close it is to the secret, which is rank 1. Behind the scenes each of the game's roughly 35,000 known entities is represented as a text embedding, and your guess is ranked by cosine similarity against all the others. You start somewhere around rank 20,000 and use each rank like a compass heading to choose the next guess, aiming to finish under par.

Scoring works like golf: each puzzle has a par, usually in the high 20s, and your score is your guess count plus hint penalties. A hint places an entity closer than your best guess so far and costs 2 points, then 4, then 6. There is no guess limit, and you can give up to see the answer.

The home page shows the week's daily games so you can catch up on previous days, a past answers page lists every earlier answer with a short recap, and an Infinite mode serves unlimited random puzzles that do not touch your stats. Progress and streaks are kept through an anonymous sign-in, so no account is needed. The site carries Google AdSense.

Nounable is an independent project by a solo developer. It suits trivia fans and players of Contexto or Semantle who know a lot of names.