What is this word game?

February 13, 2025 11:52 AM

I lost all my open tabs -- ugh, gutted -- and one thing I can't find again is a particular word game that I might have read about here...or maybe not, but can you help me find it again? It might be from the UK?

It was a site with several kinds of games, but the one I played daily had a multiword quote that you had to guess, in a style not unlike Wordle. So you'd see:

XXX XXXX XX XX XXXX

And you'd have to guess actual words that might fit that. Like your first guess could be CAN MAKE IT TO HOME. (You can't guess nonsense combos.)

Then, like Wordle, it would tell you which letters are correct but in the wrong place in that word (yellow), which are correct & in the right place (green), which are used in a different word (purple), and which aren't anywhere in the puzzle (gray).

There is one daily puzzle + limitless practice games. The answer is always some kind of generally known aphorism or simile or something, but I think the person/site who told me about this said sometimes there's a cultural difference so you might not recognize the answer. (Hence me thinking it's a UK game.)

posted by BlahLaLa to Grab Bag (14 answers total)

Is it wordly, with the quote game being phrazle?
posted by mcstayinskool at 11:54 AM on February 13

Response by poster: Hilariously, no it isn't. Though that seems to be exactly the same.
posted by BlahLaLa at 11:57 AM on February 13

Not your question but: To reopen all your closed tabs in most web browsers, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + T (Windows) or Command + Shift + T (Mac).
posted by biffa at 12:00 PM on February 13

Response by poster: biffa, that's only bringing up my current tabs :(
posted by BlahLaLa at 12:02 PM on February 13

Best answer: If it wasn't the previous phrazle, was it this phrazle
posted by General Malaise at 12:21 PM on February 13 [3 favorites]

Have you tried right clicking adjacent to your open tabs and seeing if a "reopen closed tab" or "reopen closed window" option comes up? You can repeat this process until it decides you've reopened all eligible tabs and windows.
posted by happy_cat at 12:25 PM on February 13

Response by poster: Thank you, General Malaise! (And happy_cat that doesn't work but thank you for the attempt.)
posted by BlahLaLa at 12:26 PM on February 13 [2 favorites]

Had to go through my tabs, but perhaps it was Gisnep? (FPP)

Edit: Never mind, I didn't read your description thoroughly. This definitely isn't it. Asking the mods to delete as off-topic.
posted by yuwtze at 12:28 PM on February 13 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: (Gisnep is also a great game that was in another of my tabs, but I remembered the name of that one so I could find it again. And yes, I did learn about it here.)
posted by BlahLaLa at 12:35 PM on February 13 [1 favorite]

I assume (?) you're not using Firefox, if you were it would be Ctrl-H (History) which Shows a list of tabs previously opened sorted by recent to oldest.
posted by forthright at 2:48 PM on February 13

Response by poster: I'm using Safari.
posted by BlahLaLa at 3:31 PM on February 13

Letroso
posted by Text TK at 4:04 AM on February 14

To view history in Safari is Command-Y. Also useful, Command-Shift-T will reopen the last closed tab.
posted by now i'm piste at 12:59 PM on February 14

Thanks for adding more word games to my list...
posted by Scout405 at 8:45 PM on February 14