Hot or cold
Guess the secret English word. Each guess gets a number: how close its meaning is to the secret word. #1 is the word itself — the lower the number, the hotter.
How to play
- Type any English word and press Enter. Guess as often as you like.
- Each guess gets a place by how close its meaning is: #1 is the secret word.
- very close (top 300) · warmer (to 1,500) · cold
How to play
Type any English word and press Enter. You get its place in a list of about 13,000 words, sorted by how close they are in meaning to the secret word. Words used together or in the same situations are close: for "coffee", "tea" and "cup" are hot, "mountain" is cold.
The colours
Green: very close (in the first 300). Orange: getting warmer (up to 1,500). Red: cold. Your guesses are sorted from hottest to coldest, so you can see which way to go.
Hints
Stuck? A hint gives you a word about halfway between your best guess and the secret word. You can also give up and see the answer. At the end you see the secret word with its Russian and Romanian translation, and the words closest to it in meaning.
Closeness in meaning: GloVe word vectors (Pennington, Socher & Manning, Stanford NLP). Words from the New General Service List and the Business Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips, CC BY-SA 4.0).