Mandarin · Games

Mandarin games

Learn Mandarin the fun way. Every game is played entirely in Mandarin, using only the most common words, and every word is tap-to-translate.

The games are part of Kilo Lingo Plus. Not a member yet? Play one full round of each game a day, free.

KiloKombat

Challenge a friend to learn 10 new Mandarin words faster than you - they don't even need an account. Accuracy first, speed second, and the winner takes a tooth.

The Trader game in play: a voyage map of ports and a market panel with goods to buy and sell

Plus Trader

Captain a ship around the Mandarin-speaking world. Buy goods cheap in one port, sell them dear in another, upgrade your ship, and build the biggest fortune you can in 360 days.

The Word Bubbles board: rows of bubbles labelled with English meanings and a loaded word ready to shoot

Plus Word Bubbles

A bubble shooter where knowing the word is half the shot: fire each Mandarin word at its English meaning to pop the cluster. Miss, and it turns to stone.

The Tone Shooter board: bubbles of Chinese characters coloured by tone, with a loaded pinyin word to fire

Plus Tone Shooter

Every colour is a tone. Work out each word's tone from its bare pinyin - or its audio - and shoot it into the right cluster.

A crossword grid part filled in, with the active word highlighted

Plus Crossword

A fresh vocabulary crossword every time, clued in English. Answers go in as toneless pinyin - no special keyboard needed.

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