CardGuessr

CardGuessr shows one Pokémon trading card blurred well past the point of reading it, and asks for its name. The board holds nothing else: the title, the word Pokémon under it, the card, a row of five markers, a field whose placeholder reads Type a card name…, a Guess button and a Give up button.

1. Study the blurred card.
2. Type a card name into the field and press Guess. The counter under it reads Guess 1/5, and five markers above the field track the attempts.
3. Take Give up if the card refuses to resolve.

Collectors recognise cards the way birdwatchers recognise birds, from the shape of the thing at a distance rather than from any detail, and a heavy blur is an unusually honest test of that. Everything a normal quiz would lean on is gone: no name, no art, no set symbol, just colour zones. The board is stripped to the bone, five guesses and out, and the failures are the interesting part, because they tell you exactly how much of your recognition was actually reading the text.

Feedback is kept to the attempt structure itself: five markers above the field and a counter beneath it that starts at Guess 1/5, so the board tells you how much of the round you have spent rather than how close a name came.

Core play

CardGuessr presents a single puzzle: one Pokémon trading card is shown heavily blurred and you are asked to type its card name. The board contains only the title, the word “Pokémon,” the blurred card image, a row of five markers, an input field whose placeholder reads “Type a card name…”, a Guess button and a Give up button. A counter beneath the input displays Guess 1/5 and the five markers track attempts. There are no alternate modes: a single puzzle with five guesses and a Give up option.

• The field asks for a card name, not a Pokémon name, which are not the same thing once a creature has a dozen printings across a dozen sets.
• Five guesses and a Give up button are the whole economy here, with no hint system to soften them, so a wild first name costs a full fifth of the round.