Picguessr

Picguessr is a free character guessing game played in the browser, in English or French. Its Solo mode is the Daily Character: one numbered puzzle a day, the same for everyone, with a mystery character shown as a coarse grid of coloured squares. The catalogue mixes characters from films, TV series, cartoons, comics, manga and anime, and video games, so one day can be a Marvel hero and the next a sitcom doctor or a League of Legends champion.

Each round starts with five points available and four lives. You type a character name, pick it from the suggestions and submit it, or hold the Skip button for two seconds to pass. Every wrong guess costs a life and lowers the score, and the picture comes back with finer squares, so the face gets easier to read. When a guess comes from the right franchise or medium, the game marks it as the same category. The round ends when you name the character or run out of tries. There is a counter of how many players have already won that day, and a leaderboard ranks scores.

Guests can play the daily challenge three times, and then the game asks for an account to keep playing. A free account saves your score on the leaderboard, starts your daily streak, keeps your levels and opens the archive of previous daily characters, where each date keeps its own tries and result. A streak counter sits in the header, and a Shop sits beside the Solo and Multiplayer modes.

Beyond the daily, Picguessr has a Multiplayer mode: create a private game for 2 to 8 players, pick the categories and between 5 and 30 characters, and see who recognises them first. It suits players who know their pop culture across screens and want a quick picture puzzle rather than a clue-by-clue -dle.