Ciying

Ciying is a Chinese idiom guessing game that combines pictograms with Wordle-style guessing. You have six chances to identify a four-character idiom, usually a common one. After each guess, the game uses colored backgrounds and strokes to show how your guess compares with the answer.

An exact match between a character and the answer appears on a green background. If the character is wrong but its stroke matches the correct answer, that stroke is shown in green. A wrong character with a stroke that is similar, but not an exact match, is shown in black and gray; darker coloring indicates greater similarity.

Story

The story begins on the third day of the third month in the ninth year of Yonghe, at the start of spring. Wang Xizhi, then the internal historian of Huiji, invites you and 41 other literati to gather at Lanting Pavilion in the shade of the Huiji Mountains for wine and poetry.

As the gathering grows merry, Xie Wan suggests a game. Wang Xizhi writes a four-character idiom on a scroll, hides it from the group and invites them to guess it, using the resemblance of their guesses to help them find the answer.