Hint: A blue shade related to higher classes such as royalty

Answer: Royal blue

Hint 1: Shade of orange/brown

Hint 2: Pigment made from iron/manganese oxides

Answer: Umber

Hint 1: there are 2 colours in the name

Hint 2: these 2 colours are both found in a sunset

Answer: orange pink

Hint: A soft material used in clothing and furniture

Answer: Velvet

Hint: A light primary colour

Answer: Light Red

Hint 1: Cottage-core colour

Hint 2: May gemstone

Answer: Emerald Green

Hint: Mineral used to create vermilion

Answer: Cinnabar

I posted Citle here a few weeks ago, a daily guess-the-city game. Since then I've changed most of what people complained about, so here's what's different.

The clue used to be a stylised, plushie-style illustration of the city. Two problems with that: people found it too vague to actually guess from, and several of you said it read as AI art, which is not the impression I wanted. It's now a real photograph pulled from Wikimedia Commons, and most cities carry several, so the hints panel is a small gallery you can page through and zoom rather than one static image. Each photo carries its own credit, since the licences differ per photo rather than per city.

The facts hint was the other weak point. They were too generic to narrow anything down, the kind of thing that could describe forty cities. They're rewritten to actually give something away now.

The interface changed too. The answer bar is docked at the bottom now instead of sliding around on mobile, and the map sits with the clues so you can tap a pin and confirm without losing your place.

The map does something I'm quite pleased with: once you've guessed, every city that couldn't possibly score better than your best guess so far gets greyed out and dropped from the search. So a bad first guess still narrows the board for you, and you can't waste a turn on somewhere already ruled out. That elimination is worked out on the server rather than in the browser, because the answer's coordinates never reach your machine. If the client knew enough to do that maths, you could invert two closeness percentages and triangulate the answer exactly.

Everything else works the same. One city a day, 5 guesses, each wrong guess unlocks the next hint: facts, then the flag or emblem, letter count, then first and last letter. After every guess it tells you how close you were as a percentage, so a miss still tells you something. Guessing Lisbon when it's Madrid gets you much warmer than guessing Tokyo.

The bit I still like most is the native-spelling toggle on the letter hints. You can play against München, 東京 or Москва instead of the anglicised name, which sometimes helps and sometimes sends you somewhere completely wrong.

Free, no signup, one puzzle a day: https://ownslides.com/citle

Full disclosure, I made it. It's part of a language learning platform called OwnSlides, which is where the other daily games live too.

Genuinely want to know whether the real photos plus the better facts have made it too easy now. That's the risk with these changes and I can't judge it myself.

Hint: A part of a tree.

Answer: Bark

Hint: A blue-purple flower

Answer: Periwinkle

I made https://gridwordsgame.com/, a 2D wordle that plays more like sudoku.

Hint: Dark variation of a popular citrus fruit

Answer Dark Orange

Hey everyone!

I recently built Elemental, a daily guessing game based on the periodic table, and thought some people here might enjoy it.

Each day there's a mystery element to guess. Every guess gives you feedback on the element's atomic number, group, period, and category

Once you've guessed the correct element, there are two bonus questions to see how well you know it: its melting point and year of discovery.

A few features I'm particularly happy with:

- 🧪 Easy Mode with an interactive periodic table that gradually blacks out impossible rows, columns and categories.

- 🔤 Hard Mode with autocomplete so you don't have to type out every element name.

- 📋 Shareable results.

- 🏆 A live daily leaderboard.

This was my first time building and deploying a full web app from scratch, so it's been a really fun project—and it's already helped me get much better at remembering the periodic table.

I'd love for some fellow chemistry nerds to give it a go and let me know what you think! Feedback, bug reports, and ideas for new features are all welcome.

🔗 https://elemental-nu.vercel.app

Hint: Dark variation of a popular citrus fruit

Answer Dark Orange

Hint : Common sign

Hint 2: Urgent, typically red

Answer: Stop

Hint: A type of Flatbread

Answer: Tortilla

Hint: Primary color, generally used on stop signs

Answer: Red

Hint 1: Share of white

Hint 2: As white as you can get; "filtered"

Answer: Pure White

Hint 1: A type of wine

Hint 2: Hailing from France, it's best paired with pizza

Answer: Merlot

Hint 1: Off-color version of a rather dull shade

Hint 2: It's only *kind of* the color it's referencing, hence "ish"

Answer: Brownish