Guess today's show in 6 tries. Every miss reveals a new clue.
Watchdle is our Wordle-style puzzle applied to television: one mystery show a day, the same one for every player in the world, and six guesses to find it. The difficulty doesn't come from vocabulary but from visual and narrative memory — recognising a show from its year and genres, then its country and network, two episode titles, a main character, a synopsis whose title has been redacted, and finally its blurred poster. Results share as a square of emoji, without ever giving the answer away to someone who hasn't played yet.
How to play
- One mystery show a day, the same one for everyone: the puzzle changes at midnight UTC.
- Six guesses. Each miss reveals a different kind of clue, from vaguest to most telling: year and genres, country and network, two season 1 episode titles, a main character, the redacted synopsis, then the blurred poster.
- Playable without an account. With one, your win streak is kept and you appear on the Games leaderboard.
Three ways to play better
- Don't waste the first guess. With only the year and genres, offer the most emblematic show of that crossing: if it lands you score six points, and if not you unlock the synopsis, which is the richest clue.
- Read the black blocks in the synopsis as information: how many there are tells you the number of words in the title, and their rough length tells you its shape.
- Season 1 episode titles betray tone more than plot. A one-word abstract title points to prestige drama; a pun points to comedy.
Where the data comes from
The 234 guessable shows are frozen in the code, picked from the best-rated on TMDB with at least 2,000 votes — without that filter, the draw kept landing on shows rated 9/10 by sixty people. The browser only ever receives a fingerprint of the answer, and the server replays your game before recording a score.