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Lost in Transloio Transloio
A title gets translated through random languages and back.
Can you guess what it started as?
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🌐 Titles are translated through random languages using real machine translation · No two runs are the same
The game
How Transloio works
A familiar title gets fed through a chain of real machine translations across random languages before returning to your own. Each hop scrambles it a little more.
1. A title is chosen
Transloio picks a well-known movie, song, game, book, or anime title from a curated database of popular works.
2. It travels through languages
The title is machine-translated through a random chain — e.g. English → Japanese → Finnish → Arabic → Hungarian — then back to your language.
3. You guess the original
You see the scrambled result and type your best guess. Use hints if you're stuck — but each hint costs you points.
Example puzzle
Some titles survive the journey intact — others come back as something completely unrecognisable. The fun is in not knowing which you'll get. Each run uses a different random chain of languages, so no two sessions are the same.
Why play Transloio?
A new kind of word game
Unlike crosswords or Wordle, Transloio tests cultural knowledge alongside wordplay. Recognising a scrambled film title is a different kind of mental challenge that rewards broad pop-culture awareness.
Genuinely funny results
Machine translation is notoriously literal. "The Dark Knight" might become "The Obscure Cavalier". "Frozen" might come back as "Rigid". The scrambled titles are often as entertaining as the game itself.
Learn something about language
Playing Transloio shows you how differently languages handle the same concepts. Watching a title morph through Arabic, then Finnish, then Korean gives you genuine insight into why translation is so hard.
Great with friends
Create a private room and race friends to guess the same scrambled titles in real time. Everyone sees the same result — the fastest correct guess wins the round. No account needed, just share a link.
Have questions about how to play?
Our FAQ covers scoring, difficulty, categories, multiplayer, and more.