Guess the Menu

Guess the Menu doesn't ask you to identify a restaurant; it asks you to guess what it serves. A round shows a real listing: a photo of the dining room, city and country, a short descriptive sentence, a cuisine tag, a price range, the rating and the number of reviews. On the right, the menu is redacted: each line is reduced to dashes with one or two readable words remaining, and a counter shows how many lines are displayed out of the total. You type dishes into the "Type a menu item" field and the top banner constantly tracks four numbers: the round score, the total, the multiplier and the timer. The daily sequence runs five rounds, represented by five progress segments under the title.

1. Read the restaurant listing: city, country, cuisine tag, price range, rating and number of reviews, plus the short descriptive sentence.
2. Scan the redacted menu on the right, where each line leaves one or two words visible.
3. Type a dish into the "Type a menu item" field. A "?" button and a "Skip" button flank the round.
4. Complete the day's five rounds before the timer runs out, watching the multiplier in the banner.

It's a crossword disguised as a restaurant menu, and the idea is excellent: a line reduced to dashes with a single surviving word is exactly a definition. Guess the Menu adds a layer of world knowledge, because the correct answer depends on the city, the cuisine type and the price level shown above. You improve by learning what people eat elsewhere, which is a motivation far nicer than a raw score. And the multiplier, with its ticking timer, keeps the round from lapsing into gastronomic daydreaming.

The scoring is explained by the How to Play panel, and it's punchy: a correct dish is worth 10, an exact find 20, successes chain into a multiplier and the game touts a feast objective of 200 points. The most interesting feedback is for close guesses, which aren't wasted: "Close guesses crack open extra menu clues", meaning a well-aimed mistake reveals additional lines of the menu. The game banner shows the multiplier at 1x at the start of a round.

Daily Challenge

Five timed rounds, a score you can post and a leaderboard: "Post your score, challenge your friends, and hit the leaderboard."

Relax Mode

No timer. The help panel notes that streaks still count but the leaderboard is sidelined.

Discover Mode

Offered beneath the two main buttons and presented by the site as an exploration of restaurants in your own city.

• Each redacted line leaves one or two words visible: that's the anchor for the dish, it gives the category before the full name.
• A close guess is not wasted: the game says it unlocks extra clues on the menu.
• The country, city, cuisine tag and price range are given before anything else: a two-dollar bistro menu and a fine-dining menu won't be guessed with the same vocabulary.
• Relax Mode preserves streaks but removes the leaderboard: it's the mode to learn a country's culinary vocabulary without the ticking clock.