WhereSpoken

WhereSpoken is a daily listening game by Jakob Neumann, who makes the Polarcade browser games on his own. Its first puzzle went out in January 2026, and each day's puzzle is numbered and dated, the same for every player.

The puzzle is one audio sample: a few sentences read aloud in a language. The text is ordinary, about things like an old tree or a market, and holds no deliberate clues, so you go by the sound. Play it as often as you like, at normal speed or slowed to three quarters. Your guesses name a language as spoken in a country (Swahili in Kenya or Swahili in Tanzania, for example), picked from a list that appears as you type.

You have six guesses. Each wrong one reveals the next hint: first an English translation of what was said, then clues such as a fact about the speaker's country. In Normal mode the game also shows how close your guess is in the language family tree, and country hints; Hard and Extreme give fewer hints, Extreme none at all. The mode is set before your first guess and then locked for the day.

Today's puzzle is free with no account and no ads. A yearly Polarcade Pass, which keeps the games ad-free, opens every past puzzle, syncs your progress across devices and adds an interactive language map and a language family tree to explore. Stats and badges come with the free game. The screens can be switched between English, German, Swedish and Spanish.

It suits people who like languages, travellers and anyone who enjoys a listening puzzle that teaches a little about where languages are spoken.