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title: "Foreign Five"
description: "A daily language game. Five questions a day, each one in a different language, and a result you can share."
publishedAt: 2026-05-29T00:00:00.000Z
tags: ["side-projects","languages"]
canonical: https://danielmay.co.uk/posts/foreign-five/
---
I made a small daily trivia game called Foreign Five. It gives you five questions a day, each in a different language. You can tap any word to translate it, but if you do, it shows up in your shared result.
A few weeks ago I wrote about [the first version of this](https://danielmay.co.uk/posts/foreign-trivia/), Foreign Trivia, where you pick one language and answer ten questions in it. Foreign Five is the same idea refined into a daily puzzle.
I've always liked languages. Growing up in Europe and then working in software with people from lots of different countries gave me a real appreciation for how languages feel, how they're structured, and how much culture sits inside them.
My own language learning never really kept up with that interest though. I can often recognize patterns, familiar words, sentence shapes, bits of meaning, but I'm not fluent in much.
That's the part Foreign Five is built around. It mixes trivia with language intuition. You're not just translating a sentence, you're using context, structure, general knowledge, and whatever you can recognize to work out the answer.
The Wordle-style daily format came later, but I think it fits well. One puzzle a day, a theme, a shareable result. No account, no ads.
It's here: [trivia.lmny.dev](https://trivia.lmny.dev).
I'd love feedback if you try it, especially on whether the guessing and translation mechanic feels fun.
A few weeks ago I wrote about [the first version of this](https://danielmay.co.uk/posts/foreign-trivia/), Foreign Trivia, where you pick one language and answer ten questions in it. Foreign Five is the same idea refined into a daily puzzle.
I've always liked languages. Growing up in Europe and then working in software with people from lots of different countries gave me a real appreciation for how languages feel, how they're structured, and how much culture sits inside them.
My own language learning never really kept up with that interest though. I can often recognize patterns, familiar words, sentence shapes, bits of meaning, but I'm not fluent in much.
That's the part Foreign Five is built around. It mixes trivia with language intuition. You're not just translating a sentence, you're using context, structure, general knowledge, and whatever you can recognize to work out the answer.
The Wordle-style daily format came later, but I think it fits well. One puzzle a day, a theme, a shareable result. No account, no ads.
It's here: [trivia.lmny.dev](https://trivia.lmny.dev).
I'd love feedback if you try it, especially on whether the guessing and translation mechanic feels fun.