Some puzzles want to stress you out; Akin wants to keep you company. It reworks solitaire into a word-association game, scattering word cards across a tableau that you slowly sort into their hidden categories. Drop a gold category card onto a crown slot, then feed it the words that belong, and the board begins to clear from the top down.

The clever twist is the digging. Matching words are often buried under other cards, so you shuffle the tableau to unearth them, and a gentle guided tutorial walks you in before the levels quietly get tougher across endless play. It is fully localized in eight languages, and a coins leaderboard gives the more competitive sorters a number to chase — though the mood stays warm throughout.

As a free browser word game it asks nothing but a steady drag of the mouse or a finger, and it runs on desktop and mobile alike. If you like the click of a category finally snapping into place, Akin is an easy one to keep open in a tab, and there is more where it came from among our word games.