How to Play

The daily hot & cold guessing game

The Concept

Each day, Enigma picks a mystery answer for 5 modes: People, Places, Animals, Objects and Mystery Mix. Every guess returns a temperature from 0% to 100% — no other hints. The closer you are, the hotter it gets.

How Temperature is Calculated

Every entry has hidden attribute tags. We compare your guess's tags to the answer's tags and calculate a match percentage. With 14–16 tags per entry, you get precise temperature steps.

Tag	Mozart (Answer)	Beethoven (Guess)	Match
Era	1700s	1800s	❌
Century	17th-18th	19th	❌
Nationality	Austrian	German	❌
Continent	Europe	Europe	✅
Region	Western Europe	Western Europe	✅
Field	Music	Music	✅
Subfield	Classical	Classical	✅
Gender	Male	Male	✅
Language	German	German	✅
Output	Composer	Composer	✅
Style	Orchestral	Orchestral	✅
Decade	1780s	1800s_dec	❌

Result: 8/16 → 50% 🌡️ — Beethoven is lukewarm for Mozart.

Temperature Scale

❄️ 0–20% Glacial

🌬️ 20–40% Cold

🌡️ 40–60% Warm

🔥 60–80% Hot

🔥🔥 80–99% Burning

🏆 100% Found!

Tips

Start broad. Pick entries from very different categories and eras to triangulate fast. Even a 5% score tells you what to eliminate.

Use autocomplete. Only names in the database return a temperature — autocomplete shows all valid entries.

Read the jump. If you go from 15% to 65% in one guess, you've found a shared cluster. Drill deeper.

Mystery mode: Test one entry per category in your first 4 guesses — whichever heats up fastest reveals the category. After 2 guesses at 30%+ you'll get a hint.

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How to play GuesHeat: a step-by-step guide

If you just arrived and want to play GuesHeat, this section walks you through a first game. It also shows how to turn each temperature into a useful clue.

Your first game, step by step

Pick a mode. Choose People, Places, Animals, Objects or Mystery Mix. Each mode has its own mystery answer for the day.
Type a first guess. Choose something broad and well known. The goal is to learn something, not to be right straight away.
Select the name from the suggestions. This makes sure your guess is a valid entry.
Read the percentage. Write it down, or keep the list of guesses in view.
Change direction on purpose. If a guess is cold, try something very different. If it is warm, try something close to it.
Repeat until you reach 100%. Then share your result if you like.

A worked example

This is an invented illustration, not a real game. Suppose the answer has 16 tags. Each guess is scored as shared tags divided by 16.

Guess	Shared tags	Calculation	Temperature
Guess 1	4	4 ÷ 16	25% (Cold)
Guess 2	8	8 ÷ 16	50% (Warm)
Guess 3	12	12 ÷ 16	75% (Hot)
Final guess	16	16 ÷ 16	100% (Found)

Each guess adds 4 shared tags, so the score rises by 25 points each time. In a real game the jumps are rarely so even. A big jump means your new guess shares many tags that the old one did not.

Practical tips

Keep a short list. Note your best guess so far and why it might be close. Compare every new result with it.
Change one thing at a time. If a guess from one country scores well, try another from the same country but a different field.
Treat a drop as information. A lower score than your best guess tells you which direction to leave behind.
Play a quick round on your phone. Each guess is one short entry and one number, so a game fits in a few spare minutes.
Compare with friends after playing. The shared result shows how many guesses you needed without giving away the answer.

Frequently asked questions

Does 50% mean I am halfway to the answer?

Not exactly. The percentage counts shared tags. It does not measure how many guesses you have left. Two different entries can share the same number of tags with the answer. They may share different tags, so the same score can point in different directions.

Why do two very different guesses sometimes get similar scores?

Each guess is compared tag by tag. Two entries can match the answer on different tags and still land on the same total. Try a third guess that sits between them to see which tags matter.

Do I have to play all five modes?

No. Each mode is a separate puzzle with its own answer. You can play just the one you like, or try all five. Mystery Mix is the hardest place to start, because you do not know the category yet.