These games trade the five-letter word for something you could eat. The nearest thing to Wordle here is Pantrydle, which hides one dish and grades each guess: every dish you try gets eight verdicts back, on cuisine, main ingredient, cooking method, taste and more, until every box matches. Most of the others ask about origins. You study a photo, a list of ingredients or a few written lines about its flavor, name a country, and read the distance, compass bearing or continent the game gives back.
Cheese has a short section of its own, with one game that compares guesses trait by trait and one that opens on a photo taken so close the cheese is hard to place, next to a baking-themed word game. After that come the games that put a number on food: the price of a pack from Costco or a grocery shelf, the plate that voters rated higher, the sugar in one serving, how many grapes match the energy in a drink, or where in the world people eat the most of a single food.
Most deal the same puzzle to everyone on a given day. Pantrydle and FoodGuessr change over at midnight UTC, which is 7:00 p.m. in New York in winter and 8:00 p.m. in summer, while DailyPlay's Price Check switches at midnight on New York's clock. Several carry on past the daily, with unlimited rounds, past puzzles or a practice deck.
Pick a dish from its list and get eight verdicts back, on cuisine, main ingredient, how it is cooked, taste, cooking time, difficulty, vegetarian or not, and hot or cold. Arrows steer the two ordered scales, and eight guesses must do.
Three games a day feed one streak. Classic shows a dish's photo, ingredients and a few lines about it and asks where it belongs, pointing a compass after each miss; the others want a country's dish and the better-liked of two plates.
Opens with a photo of the day's dish and allows six guesses at where it is from. Clues on ingredients, cooking, flavor and mealtime each cost points out of 5,000, and the first two misses reveal the continent, then the region.
Two rounds, each built on a dish's photo and its list of ingredients, with five tries at the country. Misses show distance and direction; after three the dish is named, and after four the country's opening letter appears.
One photograph of a plated dish, four guesses at its homeland, and nothing else on the page to lean on. Each day arrives as a numbered edition of its tasting menu.
Five dishes a day, each introduced by a few written lines on how it looks, tastes and where it is eaten, and you pick its country or region from a search list. Yesterday's five can still be played.
Five rounds, each built on a real restaurant, and you work out from its clues which dishes made the menu. Correct dishes score 10 and perfect ones 20, chains grow a multiplier, close guesses open more clues, and Relax mode drops the clock.
Trait matching for cheese: six tries, and each cheese you enter shows in green or red which of its categories, such as country, milk and rind, match the answer. Past games, a full cheese list and flashcards sit beside it.
Opens on a photo of a cheese taken so close it could be almost anything, and the picture pulls back a step with each wrong name. Gumbo Systems makes it and invites players to email in their own cheese photos.
Six tries at a hidden word from the pantry or the bakery, with tiles showing which letters land and an optional timer you can pause or hide. It comes from the Daily Bread site, which also runs Foodle, an emoji food puzzle with no words.
One Costco food product, named with its pack size, and six tries to price it within 5 percent. Each miss returns an arrow up or down and says whether you were within 25 percent. Kerm made it, crediting Tradle and Wordle.
DailyPlay's version of the Costcodle idea, built from the catalog Costcodle publishes: a grocery pack, six guesses, arrows up or down and a win within 5 percent. The daily item turns over at midnight on New York's clock, with an unlimited deck after it.
Two plates next to each other, each tagged with a price, a club, a year and a country code, and one call to make: which plate won more of the vote. Random mode and old dailies follow the daily set.
Shows one serving of something to eat or drink, such as a cereal bar, and you pile up sugar cubes, each worth 4 grams, until they match its sugar. One attempt, then the measured stack, worked out from Open Food Facts, rises next to yours.
Asks how many grapes, glasses of milk or other units hold as much energy as a given item, such as a croissant or a bottle of juice. Drag to set your amount, then reveal the true one.
One food a day, such as tangerines, and the hunt is for the nation with the highest intake per person. Each guess shows its rank and lights the globe from cold blue to red, guesses are unlimited, and some days cover one region only.
