Clume

Clume is a free-to-play daily word mystery game at playclume.com¹. The game presents a hidden word each day and challenges players to identify it by revealing clues one at a time, with a maximum of ten guesses¹. Unlike letter-placement games such as Wordle, Clume’s mechanic is clue-based deduction: each revealed clue narrows the possibilities, but every reveal costs a chance².

What it does

Clume publishes one puzzle per day². Players start with no information about the hidden word and choose when to reveal the next clue. Each clue provides a contextual hint (such as a related concept or attribute), and after reading it the player can either guess or reveal another clue. The game ends when the player guesses correctly or exhausts all ten attempts¹.

No account is required to play the daily puzzle. Registering an account (free) enables saving future stats and streaks¹.

Pricing

Tier	Price	What you get
Free	£0	Daily puzzle, unlimited play
Free account	£0	Daily puzzle + saved stats and streaks
Supporter	£14.99/year (launch offer: £7.50/year with code 50OFF)	Saved games, statistics, gameplay history, streaks1

The Supporter subscription is optional and described as a way to “help support the ongoing development and running costs of the game”². It renews automatically and can be cancelled at any time, with access continuing until the end of the billing period².

Who it’s for

Clume is built for players who enjoy daily word puzzles but want a different challenge from letter-guessing formats. The clue-reveal mechanic rewards lateral thinking and vocabulary breadth rather than letter-position logic. One puzzle per day keeps sessions short, making it suited to commuters, lunchtime players, and anyone who treats daily word games as a low-stakes ritual.

How it compares

Feature	Clume	Wordle (NYT)	Semantle	Phrazle
Mechanic	Clue-based deduction1	Letter placement3	Meaning similarity4	Phrase guessing5
Daily puzzle	Yes2	Yes3	Yes4	Yes5
Max guesses	101	63	Unlimited4	65
Price	Free (Supporter £7.50 to £14.99/yr)1	Free (NYT Games £39.99/yr for extras)6	Free4	Free5
Account required	No1	No3	No4	No5

Alternatives

• Choose Wordle if you prefer the classic five-letter, six-guess, letter-placement format with a massive community³.
• Choose Semantle if you want an open-ended challenge based on word meaning rather than spelling, with unlimited guesses⁴.
• Choose Phrazle if you want to guess entire phrases rather than single words⁵.
• Choose NYT Games if you want a bundle of daily puzzles (Crossword, Spelling Bee, Connections, Strands) under one subscription⁶.

Verified performance

A Lighthouse audit of playclume.com recorded a performance score of 100, SEO score of 100, accessibility score of 100, and best practices score of 92⁷. Core Web Vitals were strong: Largest Contentful Paint at 0.5 s, Total Blocking Time at 20 ms, and Cumulative Layout Shift at 0.005⁷.

The site allows all major AI crawlers, including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot⁸.

Company

The creator of Clume has not been publicly identified. The terms of service refer to the game’s “creator or licensors” without naming an individual or company². The privacy policy references the Information Commissioner’s Office as the relevant data-protection authority, indicating the operator is based in the United Kingdom⁹. Pricing is displayed in British pounds¹. The contact email listed on the terms page is playclume@gmail.com².

External links

• Clume homepage
• Terms of Service
• Privacy Policy
• Instagram (@playclume)
• X (@PlayClume)

Footnotes

1. Clume - Daily Word Mystery (homepage). Retrieved July 25, 2026. https://playclume.com/ ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰

2. Terms of Service - Clume. Retrieved July 25, 2026. https://playclume.com/terms ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

3. Wordle’s NYT Business Model Explained. Retrieved July 25, 2026. https://dinogame.gg/blog/wordle-nyt-business-model/ ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

4. Semantle - Daily Word Guessing Game. Retrieved July 25, 2026. https://semantle.com/ ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

5. Phrazle - Play the Daily Phrase Guessing Game Online. Retrieved July 25, 2026. https://phrazle.co.uk/ ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

6. NYT Games Subscription: Pricing, Plans & Is It Worth It? Retrieved July 25, 2026. https://www.connectionshintz.com/blog/nyt-games-subscription-guide ↩ ↩²

7. Lighthouse audit of playclume.com. Retrieved July 25, 2026. https://playclume.com/ ↩ ↩²

8. Schema and robots.txt audit of playclume.com. Retrieved July 25, 2026. https://playclume.com/robots.txt ↩

9. Privacy - Clume. Retrieved July 25, 2026. https://playclume.com/privacy ↩