Gamedle

Gamedle runs five daily puzzles side by side, each asking you to identify a video game through a different lens and each carrying its own printed difficulty. Cover is the easy one: name the game from its box art. Artwork, Characters and Keywords sit at medium, working from concept art, a single character and a set of descriptive words. Guess is marked hard: you get only the game's attributes and have to reason your way to the title. Three of those modes also run as endless versions, and a themed weekly puzzle sits underneath, one week built around games to play with friends. The site has been running since 2022 and shows a countdown to the next day's set.

1. Pick a mode by difficulty: Cover for easy, Artwork, Characters or Keywords for medium, Guess for hard.
2. Name a video game; a wrong answer reveals more of the image or another attribute.
3. Work down the ladder. Solving Cover often gives you the day's theme, which helps on the harder modes.
4. Switch to an unlimited mode when the five dailies are done, or take the weekly puzzle.

The graded ladder is the point. Most guessing games have one difficulty and you either know the answer or you do not; here the same day's roster is served five ways, so an easy Cover win and a failed Guess tell you something real about how well you actually know a title. Recognising a box is not the same as knowing its genre, engine and release window. The unlimited modes turn the best of those into practice rather than a one-shot, and a global solve percentage under each mode shows how the rest of the players fared before you start.

Each mode answers in its own currency: an image that reveals itself further with every wrong guess in the visual modes, and attribute-by-attribute verdicts in Guess, where the clue set is the whole puzzle. Under every daily tile the site prints the share of players who have solved it, so the difficulty labels are backed by a live number rather than an editorial opinion. A countdown in the header names the time until the next set.

Cover

Easy. Name the game from its box art.

Artwork

Medium. Name the game from a piece of its concept or promotional art.

Characters

Medium. Identify the game from one of its characters.

Keywords

Medium. Identify the game from a set of descriptive words.

Guess

Hard. Only the game's attributes are given, no image at all.

Unlimited

Endless versions of the Cover, Keywords and Guess modes, playable outside the daily.

Weekly

A themed weekly puzzle. One week was built around games to play with friends.

• Play Cover first even if it is the easy one. The five dailies often share an era or a genre, and a confirmed answer narrows the others.
• In Guess, read the attributes as a filter rather than a description: a release year plus a genre eliminates most of the catalogue before you consider any specific title.
• The solve percentage under each mode is honest calibration. A day where Artwork sits at a low figure means the art is genuinely obscure, not that you are missing something obvious.