Pedantix

Pedantix hides one French Wikipedia page a day by blanking every word of its introduction, and you uncover it by proposing words. Any word that occurs in the text appears at once everywhere it is used, while a word that is merely close in meaning leaves its box dark but tints it, the shade lightening as the word sits nearer the hidden one. That proximity is the same contextual calculation as Cemantix, by the same author, enigmatix, on the same site. You win when the words of the page title are uncovered, and title words are never tinted: they are either right or wrong. A masculine singular or an infinitive is often enough to reveal feminine, plural or conjugated forms, capitals are not needed, and pressing a black box shows the length of the word underneath. There is no limit on tries, and a new page is drawn at random each day at noon French time.

1. Type a French word in the Mot field and send it, starting with common grammatical words to open up the sentences. Capitals are not needed.
2. Watch the page: a word present in the introduction is revealed everywhere it appears, and a masculine singular or an infinitive can reveal its feminine, plural or conjugated forms too.
3. Read the strip of squares beside the input after each try: green for every box the word opened, orange for every box it came close to, and a single red square when it touched nothing.
4. Use the tints: a word that appears nowhere but sits close to a hidden word lightens that word's dark box, and the lighter the grey, the nearer the meaning.
5. Press a black box to read the length of the word hiding under it when a sentence almost makes sense.
6. Uncover the words of the page title to finish the day, or press Révéler la page secrète to give up and read the page.

The page becomes readable before you know what it is about, which is a pleasure no other daily game offers. Early guesses are grammatical filler that opens up the sentence structure, and the topic only surfaces once enough common words are down, so it rewards knowing how an encyclopaedia sentence is built as much as knowing the subject. It suits readers who like a slow reveal and can leave a tab open for an hour; the rules warn that you will need more than six tries and probably dozens. Skip it if you want a two-minute puzzle. Free, and the daily needs no account.

Every try answers beside the input with a strip of coloured squares: a green square for each box the word opened, an orange square for each hidden word it came close to, and a single red square when it touched nothing. Revealed words appear in clear wherever they occur, while near misses leave the box dark and tint it, lighter as the meaning gets nearer; title words are never tinted, only right or wrong. Each try is logged in a numbered table sortable by order or alphabetically. The ten-square meter under the day number tracks how much of the page is open.

Page du jour

One French Wikipedia page a day, the same for every player, drawn at random at noon French time, with no limit on tries.

Collaborer

Team play on the same daily page: create or join a team with a code valid for the day, and the words found by one member are shared with the others.

• Spend the first minute on articles, prepositions and auxiliaries. They carry no information about the subject but they expose the shape of every sentence, and the shape is what lets you read the rest.
• An encyclopaedia opening follows a pattern. Once the first sentence is half revealed, testing words like né, commune, espèce or joueur often settles what kind of thing the page describes.
• A word that lightens several boxes without appearing is worth more than a cold word that appears once. The tint points at the subject, and the reveal only fills the page.
• Watch the ten-square meter under the day number rather than the try count. It shows the share of boxes revealed, tinted and untouched, and the rules say your final ranking is your place among the day's finders, independent of how many tries you needed.
• Try singular and infinitive forms first. The rules say the masculine singular of a word or the infinitive of a verb can be enough to reveal its feminine, plural or conjugated forms, so one well-chosen lemma can open several boxes at once.
• When the page is found, resist the Voir la page button and pick Révéler les mots séparément instead: it lets you click the remaining black boxes one at a time, or keep playing without spoilers.