Quick guide
How to play
Each round is seven prompts × 25 seconds per prompt, with one answer per prompt. Submit a fitting word, see its rarity score, and start another free round whenever you are ready.
01 Read one original prompt
Each round has seven distinct prompts, with 25 seconds for each one. You may submit only one answer per prompt, so choose the best fit before the timer ends.
02 Accepted answers earn rarity points
The game checks your answer against that prompt’s accepted candidates. Each candidate’s rarity percentile is relative to that prompt’s wordfreq-ranked list: 0 is most common and 100 is rarest. Rarer accepted answers earn more points.
03 How scoring works
For an accepted answer, the score is round(100 × (rarity / 100)^1.5). Answers below the 20th rarity percentile are capped at 5 points. An unknown answer or a timeout earns 0 points.
04 Review, replay, and explore
At the end, review your score and start another round whenever you want. The original daily game offers one shared round per day; this independent companion provides unlimited rounds with original prompts and modeled estimates. Its dated archive does not claim to reproduce official daily answers.
About the estimates
Answer charts show modeled shares based on word-frequency ranks, not survey responses or official answers. Valid accepted picks saved on this device can nudge its local estimates; they are not shared with other players.
About the archive
Each date maps to a stable set of seven original prompts. Archive pages are generated during a site build and refreshed when a new build is published.
Frequency data and attribution
Word-frequency ranks are derived from wordfreq by Robyn Speer, English “large” list, version 3.1.1; its frequency snapshot reflects language use through about 2021. The project says its included data files may be redistributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Its sources include Google Books Ngrams, the Leeds Internet Corpus, Wikipedia, ParaCrawl, OPUS OpenSubtitles 2018, and SUBTLEX lists by Marc Brysbaert et al.; SUBTLEX remains freely available. See the wordfreq source notice for acknowledgments. This site derives seeded estimates for original prompts from those frequency ranks; it does not measure a live player survey.
Ready for another round?
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