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The original semantic-distance guessing game, noticeably harder than its descendants and considerably more humbling.
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Semantle sits in Word Games under Play, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Daily word puzzles, anagram hunts, crosswords and the whole family of games that grew out of one green-and-yellow grid. Most reset at midnight.
Yes. Semantle is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Semantle without signing up for anything.
Yes. Semantle works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Seven letters, one compulsory centre letter, and the long climb from Solid to Genius. Ruins mornings extremely productively.
A daily letter grid with dozens of words buried in it, plus a bonus list that runs on far longer than anyone expects.
A word search with a theme you have to deduce first, and one spangram threading corner to corner through the grid.
Swap letters around a waffle-shaped grid to fix six words at once, with only fifteen swaps and stars for every one you save.
Word association against a neural net: type anything related to the highlighted block and it clears. Built by Google's research team.
Raw Sentinel and Landsat imagery for anywhere on the planet, free, with band combinations that reveal crops, floods and old burn scars.
Recipes that explain the science first and then tell you what to do. The food-lab pieces are why it has the reputation it has.
Short visual explanations of statistics ideas — eigenvectors, conditional probability, Markov chains — all draggable.
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