DSMdle

DSMdle presents a clinical case each day and asks the player to identify the most likely DSM-5 diagnosis. The first clue is a one-sentence presentation of the patient (age, reason for referral, observable symptoms), and each mistake releases a more specific clue. The game openly targets psychology students and clinicians, and reinforces its entry with a prominent warning: the cases are AI-generated, simplified, and not clinically validated, and the site repeats that it is neither a diagnostic tool nor medical advice. It is credited to a two-person team, Luis Flores and Susana Rios, and exists in English and in Spanish.

1. Read the first clue, an initial clinical presentation.
2. Type the DSM-5 diagnosis you consider most likely into the search field, then confirm with Submit.
3. If incorrect, a new clue appears, more specific than the previous one, and the round continues.

The Wordle format applied to a clinical vignette works better than expected: each additional clue genuinely feels like information arriving later in a case file. For a student, it’s a review of DSM-5 nomenclature disguised as a game, provided the site's warning about the nature of the cases is taken seriously.

The case is paced by two counters that advance together: the clues, numbered from CLUE 1, and the attempts, shown as 0/6 at the start. An error is therefore never neutral; it buys the next clue. The site invites you to share your result once the case is solved and to return the next day for a new patient.

Classic

One of the two options of the selector on the page, next to Hard.

Hard

A second option offered by the same selector, next to Classic.

Archive

A link dedicated to previous days' cases.

• Treat the case like a quiz, not a clinical exercise: the site itself reminds you that the vignettes are AI-generated and simplified, so the subtleties a real interview would provide are not present.
• The clues move from general to specific, which makes the first attempt low-cost in information: offering a plausible diagnosis early advances the case rather than spoiling it.
• The ES button switches the entire game to Spanish, useful if the diagnostic vocabulary is more familiar to you in that language.