Spotle

A daily guessing game where the answer is a recording artist. The roster is a thousand artists and you get ten guesses, and every name you try comes back scored against the hidden one, so the game is about reading those answers rather than knowing the artist outright.

1. Press PLAY on the front page.
2. Name an artist from Spotle's roster of a thousand.
3. Use what each guess gives back to narrow the field. You have ten in total.

This is the deduction end of music trivia rather than the recall end. Ten guesses against a roster of a thousand is generous enough that a careful player who has never heard the day's artist can still triangulate them, which makes it a good fit for people who like Wordle's information-squeezing but find five-letter words dry. It is free and you can play without an account.

Every guess is scored against the hidden artist rather than simply refused, and ten guesses is the whole budget.

Daily

One artist per day, ten guesses, the same puzzle for everyone.

• Use your first few guesses to probe different directions (genres, eras, big-name vs niche). Because each guess is scored against the hidden artist, varied probes give more informative comparisons than similar guesses.
• Treat every guess as information, not just a try to name the artist. Read the returned scores to eliminate large swaths of the thousand-artist roster and narrow candidates between guesses.
• You only get ten guesses total, so avoid repeating closely similar artists; pick names that will best differentiate among remaining possibilities.
• You don’t need prior knowledge of the day’s artist to play. Ten scored guesses are intended to let you triangulate the answer by elimination. Press PLAY on the front page to start and you can play without an account.