Faceit

Faceit places a portrait behind a grid of opaque tiles, five columns by eight rows, and simply asks “Who's that face?”. The photo is there, whole, beneath the tiles: you decide which parts of the face you get to see, with a budget of five openings for forty tiles and three guesses to name the person. Three counters frame the game: a score shown as 8 / 8 before any move, the remaining reveals, and the remaining guesses. Every tile you open and every wrong name you try takes a point off that score, so the real question is never whether you can recognize the face but how little of it you need. The game is by BrainSnack, a hub of five daily browser puzzles built on the promise of two minutes a day, and the whole photo pool, ninety-eight portraits, comes from one Wikimedia Commons photographer, David Shankbone.

1. Open the page: the tiled portrait, the score and the input field appear straight away, with no home screen and no sign-up.
2. Tap any tile to open it, in any order; the line under the grid counts the reveals you have left, and each one takes a point off the score.
3. Weigh a second reveal against a guess: both cost the same single point, and the two counters are kept separately, one under the photo and one under the field.
4. Type a name into the “Who is it?” field and press Guess; a chip appears with a green tick or a red cross.
5. Finish the day by naming the face, by running out of guesses, or with “Give up & reveal answer”, which locks the score at 0 / 8.
6. Read the result screen for the answer, the short bio and the photo credit, then use Share result to post the squares and your score.

For anyone who likes deduction more than trivia: Faceit hands you five windows into forty tiles and lets you decide whether an eye, a jawline or a hairline tells you more. A round lasts a minute or two. Skip it if you want a deep celebrity-knowledge test, because the pool is ninety-eight mostly American public figures from one photographer's archive, heavy on 2000s actors, comedians and news anchors; if those names sit outside your world, no amount of tile strategy saves the guess. Skip it too if you want past days back: there is no archive, and one play per day is enforced.

Faceit grades in points and chips. The score sits at 8 / 8 before you touch anything: each tile you open takes one point, each wrong name takes one point, and the winning name is free. A submitted guess becomes a chip under the field, green with a tick when it lands, red with a cross when it misses. Missing three times ends the day with the full photo revealed and the title “Out of guesses”; landing shows “Nailed it!”. Give up and the score drops to 0 / 8 regardless. The end screen turns your guesses into a row of green and red squares for sharing.

Daily puzzle

One face a day, the same for everyone, on a five by eight grid with five reveals, three guesses and a score out of eight. The page opens straight onto that puzzle: no home screen, no mode selector, no difficulty setting and no archive of past days. Once the day is finished, by a correct name, three wrong ones or a give-up, the browser holds the result, and a reload shows the saved score with the note that today's puzzle is already played.

• Five openings for a grid of forty tiles: the vast majority of the portrait will remain closed; this game is won by choosing tiles, not by accumulating openings.
• A wrong guess and a tile reveal cost the same single point, so a name you half believe in is worth trying before you spend another reveal on the same suspicion.
• The winning guess itself is free: only reveals and wrong guesses come off the score, so a first-try hit after two reveals finishes at 6 / 8.
• Spend reveals where identity lives, on the eyes, the hairline and the mouth rather than the edges of the grid; with only five of forty tiles open, a well-placed pair beats five scattered ones.
• Spelling has some slack: the checker forgives one typo in a name word of four to eight letters and two in a longer one, but words of three letters or fewer must be exact, and a word close enough to another person in the set gets no tolerance at all.
• Do not use Give up to peek: it scores 0 / 8 outright, and the browser remembers the finished day, so reloading brings back the saved result rather than a fresh board.