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Game · 2026
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Escalade

A daily French word game — probe the meaning of a secret word and reveal its letters as the temperature rises.

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Highlights

  • A daily loop combining semantic proximity with progressive letter reveals
  • Hot-and-cold feedback with temperature, rank, and guess history
  • Precomputed French semantic engine built from spaCy embeddings
  • Fully static prototype with embedded puzzles and dictionary
  • 'Ember' visual direction: a palette moving from ice blue to warm red
  • Designed to grow into daily rotation, streaks, and spoiler-free sharing