Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Mandarin Match
Free tile game to learn 1,743 Mandarin words no login needed
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Built this because tones are killing my spoken Mandarin and I can't reliably hear my own mistakes. It's a 9M Conformer-CTC model trained on ~300h (AISHELL + Primewords), quantized to INT8 (11 MB), runs 100% in-browser via ONNX Runtime Web. Grades per-syllable pronunciation + tones with Viterbi forced alignment. Try it here: https://simedw.com/projects/ear/
Jan 2026 · simedw.com · its alternatives →
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AnyLingo▲60Word guesser in 25 languages with daily challenges
2022 · anylingo.app · its alternatives →
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Voggle▲72A word game that demands lexical & strategic planning skills
2022 · voggle.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everybody. I occasionally make little browser-based games, and this is my latest attempt. It's not quite done, but it's quite playable (note: it does include audio): https://www.omiword.com/ This has been my occasional tinker target for ~5 years now, starting in the early days of Covid. The objective is to drag letter tiles within certain boundaries to spell four common American-English words. It hasn't got ads or anything, it's just supposed to be fun for its own sake. If people happen to like it, I might add an option for folks to make a small, one-time payment to unlock…
2025 · omiword.com · its alternatives →
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Word Slicer▲85I shared Word Slicer here a while back — it’s a free, ad-free, browser-based word game where you try to find 5 words in 5 minutes. Since then I’ve been improving it (daily challenge archive, cleaner UI, better stats), and I’d love more feedback from the HN crowd. In particular, I’m interested in thoughts on the gameplay flow, design/UX, and what would make it more engaging.
2024 · wordslicer.com · its alternatives →
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A daily Mandarin Wordle game for learning Chinese idioms.
Jun 2026 · wordlechinese.com · its alternatives →
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LingoCrush▲12Language encounter game for fast, fun learning
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I'm in the process of learning German and wanted to play a German version of the NYT’s Spelling Bee. It was awful, I was very bad at it, it was not fun. So I built my own version of Spelling Bee meant for people like me. Three Emojis is a daily word game designed for language learners. You get seven letters and a list of blanked-out words to find. When you discover shorter words, they automatically fill into longer ones—like a crossword—which turns out to be really useful for languages like German. Each word also gets three emojis assigned to it as a clue, created by GPT-5 to try and capture…
Nov 2025 · threeemojis.com · its alternatives →
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Chinese Vocabulary Games — Learn Chinese through ply
May 2026 · hsk.fulinlabs.com · its alternatives →
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Cue▲2Daily word puzzle where one word connects three tiles
Feb 2026 · cue-words.com · its alternatives →
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Chinese vocab, drilled into long-term memory. Free, offline.
May 2026 · wordbrushchinese.com · its alternatives →
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ABC,Match,Game,Preschool,Learn,100,First Words,kids,alphabet
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Just for fun, I built a language learning tool. It represents Chinese and Japanese as graphs of characters, with connections indicating given characters can form a word. It can also decompose characters to give clues on how they're pronounced, analyzes words to understand which ones are commonly used together, and more. It's fully interactive, supports offline use, generates flashcards, has sentences from humans and from AI, and plenty of other features. Check out the README for details. https://github.com/mreichhoff/HanziGraph
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Long time lurker here. My family had a pen-and-paper game we'd play on long drives to visit my great-grandmother. After she passed, I spent the holidays recreating it: https://a26z.fun How it works: Find 15 words from a category (like "Stone Fruits," "US States," or "Dog Breeds") as fast as you can. Once you meet the 15 word minimum, you can play for as long as you want. Each letter shows how many target words start with it (A¹ = one word starts with A, N² = two words start with N) That small ² in the bottom-right? Multi-word answers allowed. For "US States" with N², both "NEW…
Jan 2026 · a26z.fun · its alternatives →
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PC game for learning Taiwanese Mandarin. Learn 50 terms.
2020 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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I love word association games. Here's a playable wordplay game where you match opposite word tiles. After playtesting a lot of mechanics, I think opposites play really nicely with Mahjong solitaire. The current generation of frontier LLMs can't make puzzles that get much more interesting than hot-vs-big-vs-fast. New inferences keep circling a small pool of concepts unless the prompting has a way to get the LLM into new territories of language. Puzzlemaking needs graph traversals. I made 20 levels algorithmically because I work with a huge semantic graph with over 100M edges, built from…
Mar 2026 · linguabase.org · its alternatives →
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I've recently launched a startup called Native Tongue. Our vision is to make language learning fun, fast and effective. We've released our first product "Mandarin Madness", which is to learn Mandarin Chinese vocabulary. Its available on android and iOS. Its for beginners to intermediate, including those with no experience. Please go here for more information and to download the app: http://mandarinmadness.com/ Our company website is http://nativetongue.com/ We would love to get some feedback on our mobile apps. We would also like to speak to people interested in language learning and…
2012 · mandarinmadness.com · its alternatives →
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Hello Wordl▲11Welcome to Hello Wordl, an engaging word-guessing game that challenges your vocabulary and deduction skills! In this fun and interactive game, players must guess a secret five-letter word within a limited number of attempts. With each guess, you’ll receive instant feedback: letters that are in the correct position will be highlighted in green, letters that are in the word but in the wrong position will be marked in orange, and letters that aren’t in the word at all will be shown in red. Perfect for word enthusiasts and casual gamers alike, Hello Wordl offers a fresh twist on the classic word…
2025 · hellowordl.cc · its alternatives →
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Word Puzzles Meet Language Learning
2025 · qimachine.com · its alternatives →
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