How to play

Bingedle has 334 daily guessing games, one for each show, anime, film series, video game or sport. Every game hides one secret character a day, and most games have more than one way to find it. Each of those ways is a mode, listed in the bar under the game's name, and each mode has its own secret.

Everyone gets the same puzzles on the same date. They change at midnight where you are, the way Wordle does, and the clock at the top of the page counts down to the next ones.

Classic

Type any character's name and pick it from the list. A row of tiles compares your guess with the secret character, one tile per clue: their role, their team, their first season and so on, depending on the game.

Green means that clue is the same as the secret character's.
Yellow means it partly matches, for example one shared team out of two.
Red means it doesn't match at all.
An arrow on a number, like a year or an episode count, says whether the answer is higher or lower.

There's no limit on guesses. If you're stuck, extra clues unlock as you go: by default a line the character said after 5 wrong guesses, how many letters their name has after 9, and a blurred picture after 13. Some games unlock them later. After three wrong guesses you can also give up, which shows the answer and ends your streak.

Quote, Emoji, Image and Silhouette

These modes show you one clue about the secret character and ask for their name.

Quote: a real line from the show or game. Name who says it. A hint appears after three misses.
Emoji: the character told in emoji. You start with one, and every wrong guess adds another.
Image: a tiny corner of the character's picture, zoomed in. Every wrong guess zooms out a little.
Silhouette: a solid black outline, on Pokémon. Colour starts to show after six misses.

Their secrets are picked so that one mode's answer isn't another's on the same day, so solving one doesn't give the rest away.

Grid

A 3×3 board where every row and every column has a rule. Fill each square with a character who fits both its row and its column. You have four lives, each character can be used once, and every square has at least three right answers. When enough people have played, each square shows how many picked the same answer as you, and the lower your total, the more original your grid.

Groups

Sixteen characters hide four groups of four, like Connections. Pick four that belong together and submit. Right groups lock in from yellow, the easiest, to purple, the hardest. You can make four mistakes, and if three of your four were right you'll see "One away".

Quiz

A trivia ladder about the franchise. Each right answer moves you up a rank, and the questions get harder as you climb. You have three lives and 20 seconds a question. After each answer there's a short note on the fact and a link to the page it comes from.

Episode and Higher or Lower

Episode, on some TV shows, shows one real line and asks which episode it's from. Arrows after each guess point to the right season and episode number, and more clues unlock after 3, 6 and 9 misses.

Higher or Lower, on One Piece, puts two characters side by side and asks whose bounty is bigger. You get ten pairs a day and ten seconds for each, and the pairs get closer as you go.

Modes only one game has

Some games have modes built from their own data. Leaguedle has the most, with ability icons, ability descriptions, base stats, splash art, colour palettes, picture tiles, redacted lore, cooldown duels and quizzes on Arcane and Wild Rift. Minecraftdle has Blocks and Items, and Pokémon has a Unite mode. They all follow the same idea: one secret a day, and clues that narrow it down.

When you finish

Share your result copies a short summary, coloured squares in Classic, that shows how you did without giving the answer away.
Your rank shows what share of today's players you beat, once enough people have played.
Play unlimited, in Classic, starts practice rounds with random characters. They don't count toward your stats or streak.
Next mode takes you to a mode of the same game you haven't played today, and Next game to another game in the same category.
Answers: each game has a page with yesterday's answers and the ones before. Today's always stays secret.

Streaks and stats

Your wins, guess counts and streak for each game live in your browser, so they stay on the device you play on and go if you clear your browser data. A streak grows by one for each day you solve that game and resets if you miss a day or give up. What else the site keeps, like the anonymous guess counts behind the ranks, is on the privacy page.

Leagues

A league is a private table for you and your friends. Start one, send the link, and everyone who joins sees each other's results for today and the last seven days. There's no account, just a nickname you choose.

Reminders and the app

At the end of a round you can turn on a daily reminder, a notification from your browser when the new puzzles are out. It's off unless you switch it on, and you can switch it off the same way. You can also add Bingedle to your home screen to open it like an app.

Finding a game

The home page lists every game, with the most played first, and you can browse by category: anime, TV shows, sitcoms, cartoons, streaming, movies, video games, sports and knowledge. Press / on the home page to search. If your favourite isn't here, use Suggest a game at the bottom of any page.