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48 word games with their own page, grouped by how their AI works. Each carries a full score breakdown, a verified record and an honest list of what we could not confirm.

Why 48 and not 59? The Index tracks every live word game we can find. A game earns its own page only when there is something substantive to say — a real AI story, a marketing claim worth checking, or a richly verified record. The other 11 stay listed in the Index rather than becoming thin pages.

Generative opponent (3)

Yapword8/10The AI is a character, not a scoreboard: Yapoleon reacts to guesses in real time, hints on request and closes the round with a roast written from how you… GuessBot: AI Mind Reader6/10Inverted 20 Questions — you think of the answer and the AI generates the questions to narrow it down. Imposter AI: Word Party Game6/10Ten AI agents with distinct bluffing personalities give one-word clues alongside human players; runs entirely on-device, hence no internet requirement.

AI collaborator (2)

Converge8/10You and an LLM each play a connecting word per turn and try to meet in the middle within eight rounds; the model drops riddle hints in the final two turns. WordRival: Guess The Word7/10Real-time 1v1 Wordle racing where the AI is a coach that reads the board and explains optimal moves in natural language — a collaborator, not an opponent.

Chatbot improv (1)

Word.Studio Games8/10A toolbox of roughly a dozen LLM-run games — 20 Questions, Word Ladder, WordLibs, Emojinary — where the model both invents each round and adjudicates it.

Semantic scoring (23)

Linxicon7/10Bridge two random words by adding words that clear a 40% cosine-similarity threshold — the most explicit published scoring rule of any game in the index. Semantle7/10The canonical semantic word game and still the benchmark: every guess is scored by cosine distance in a disclosed word2vec space, with hints and a full archive. Semantle (legacy build)7/10David Turner's original build is still served, including the team/room co-op mode the current semantle.com dropped. סמנטעל (Semantle Hebrew)7/10Hebrew adaptation on puzzle #1635, with optional sign-in that unlocks hints and stats and a tip jar rather than a paywall. Cemantle6/10English sibling of Cémantix from the same maintainer; on day #1592 at verification. Contexto6/10Ranks each guess by closeness rather than showing a raw similarity score, which is why it reads as more forgiving than Semantle; localized into at least three… Contexto - Secret Word Guess6/10Third-party Contexto-style iOS app — not the official Daydash release — that is level-based with coin hints rather than a single daily puzzle. Contexto.fun6/10Unaffiliated Contexto-style game (#297 at verification) that adds a speed-bonus scoring system and a Create Game feature for custom words. Cémantix6/10French-language Semantle descendant that swaps cosine scores for a temperature metaphor; on day #1625 at verification. Pedantle6/10English Pédantix; on day #1547 at verification. Pédantix6/10Redacted-Wikipedia guessing where, unlike Redactle, wrong guesses are still scored by semantic proximity to the hidden words. Semantle Junior6/10Same engine as Semantle restricted to a common-vocabulary word list; on puzzle #1544 as of verification. Semantris6/10Google's word-association arcade game — the oldest live entry in the index and still the only one built as an action game rather than a daily puzzle. Swemantle6/10Swedish port whose FAQ answers the category's central question bluntly — 'Is this AI? No, it's Word2vec' — and links its own source code. Vectordle6/10Plots every guess in a rotatable 3D semantic space; a category hint unlocks at 10 guesses and a letter hint at 20. WitRush6/10Contexto-style ranking plus real multiplayer rooms — collaborative or race — an archive, hints and streaks, all free and account-free. WordRank6/10Unlimited-play answer to Contexto with daily, endless, archive and word-ladder modes; day #99 at verification implies a May 2026 launch. word.golf6/10Semantic golf: hop between word2vec neighbours to connect two unrelated words in as few jumps as possible, with a race mode. In Other Words5/10Connect two unrelated words in 3–7 hops through clouds of semantically related words; doubles as a visual thesaurus and is iPhone-only. NearWord5/10Minimal semantic guessing game with no about page, FAQ or model information published anywhere on the site. Pimantle5/10Semantle front-end that plots your guesses on a 2D semantic map instead of a list. Proximity5/10Daily semantic-clue game sharing code structure and author metadata with the current semantle.com; ad-supported with a paid ad-removal tier. Word Sense5/10Contexto-style rank bands from an indie arcade studio, with a puzzle picker for past days and a top-300 closest-words reveal.

AI-generated puzzles (5)

Grid Genius6/10Type any topic and it builds a playable crossword; the hint system rewrites a clue from a different angle instead of revealing the answer, which is live… Guess It - Charades with AI6/10Charades party game where AI writes fresh hints each round and a named persona guides solo play. Infinite Craft6/10Every combination you attempt is sent to an LLM that invents a brand-new word and emoji — the purest live word generation in the index, wrapped in a toy rather… Crossword Learn - AI Puzzles0/10Language-learning crossword builder whose most credible AI claim is photo-to-puzzle: snap a menu or textbook page and it extracts vocabulary into a grid. Guess Hidden Words0/10Claims to be 'fully powered with Artificial Intelligence'. The only concrete AI use it describes is generating its category word lists once, before shipping…

No AI during play (14)

AI Word Master0/10Claims every puzzle is 'dynamically generated with AI' while advertising 1,000+ hand-ordered levels and full offline play from fixed categories. Betweenle0/10Appears on 'semantic games' roundups, but its own rules page confirms guesses are ranked by alphabetical dictionary position. Crossword AI: Word Puzzle Game0/10Builds a fresh grid per request, but entirely on-device with no network and six bundled dictionaries — a procedural grid solver with stored clue banks, not a… Crossword VS0/10Sells itself on racing 'a high-performance AI' while its own listing says the puzzles are hand-crafted and the modes differ only in how fast the opponent fills… NYT Connections0/10The most interesting AI edge case in the category: puzzles are hand-written, but the Connections Bot uses undisclosed AI after you finish to infer what… NYT Letter Boxed0/10Daily puzzle is free and yesterday's is always viewable, but the full archive moved behind the paywall in August 2025. NYT Spelling Bee0/10Free players get a few words before the paywall; the official Spelling Bee Buddy hint companion is data-driven, not AI. NYT Strands0/10Themed word search with a spangram; hints are earned mechanically by finding non-theme words, with no model involved. Redactle0/10Grouped with semantic games constantly, but guesses are literal word matches against a redacted Wikipedia article with no embedding involved. Squaredle0/10Daily word-search grid that ramps in difficulty Monday to Friday with twist puzzles on Saturdays; hand-built, no AI. Waffle0/10Swap letters into a waffle grid in 15 moves; archive gated behind ads or Ko-fi support. WordQuest AI0/10Advertises AI-generated puzzles that 'adapt to your skill level' yet declares no data collected and none shared — incompatible with server-side generation or… Wordle0/10Still the correct answer for anyone who just wants a plain daily word game. WordleBot is a probability algorithm over an encoded dictionary, not a model, and… Words with AI0/10Name-only AI: a 2013 Scrabble clone whose opponent is a classic offline dictionary search with five fixed strength settings, untouched since January 2022.