Neograms

What Neograms is

Neograms is a daily word-mechanics puzzle built around constructed languages. Each day's challenge presents a set of glyph sentences paired with their English translations, much like a Rosetta Stone. Your goal is to work out the language from those comparisons: which glyph stands for which word, and how meaning changes when small marks appear. Because the languages are invented, no outside knowledge helps; everyone begins with the same clues. Once you spot the pattern, you solve translation puzzles in both directions—glyphs to English and English back to glyphs. Hints are written to nudge without ruining the discovery, and the archive keeps recent daily and bonus puzzles available for extra practice.

How to play

Neograms can be approached in 3 simple steps. First, compare each glyph sentence with its English translation and note that the same glyph always represents the same word. Next, tap a glyph or a word to highlight every matching glyph or word in the puzzle; these highlights let you test whether a guessed mapping holds. Watch for small marks above, beside, or below a glyph, because they work like word endings. Finally, use the patterns you have found to answer the decode puzzle (glyphs to English) and the encode puzzle (English to glyphs). Check both answers to complete the challenge, and open Hints if you need a nudge.

Tips

1. Start with short paired sentences. A glyph that repeats across several pairs is likely tied to a word that repeats in the English translations.
2. Use tap-to-color matching early: highlighting one word shows every occurrence, making it easier to confirm or reject a guessed glyph.
3. When a glyph appears with different small marks, compare the English meanings side by side to see exactly what each mark changes.
4. Don't skip the encode puzzle. Translating English back into glyphs often forces you to notice details that decoding alone does not reveal.