Terradle

Terradle puts you in front of a Terraria-like pixel art scene, hills and fir trees beneath a purple sky, and gives a single instruction: “Guess today's weapon!”. The board is a compact block where three tiles announce what the game will concede later: the sale price “in 3 tries...”, the tooltip “in 7 tries...”, the image “in 11 tries...”. Below that, an input labeled “Type any weapon to begin...” and a green arrow to confirm. A “How to play” button opens an unusually talkative rules panel that even explains its sorting conventions and points to the Terraria wiki for rarity questions. The footer credits its author, “Made by cxhuy”.

1. Type a weapon name into the “Type any weapon to begin...” field and confirm with the green arrow.
2. Read the returned statistics: green when the value is identical to that of the weapon of the day, red when it is wrong, yellow only for the acquisition method.
3. Follow the arrows attached to the numerical statistics, which indicate whether to aim higher or lower.
4. Keep submitting guesses until the hint thresholds are reached: the sale price after 3 tries, the tooltip after 7, the image after 11.

Terradle understands that guessing a Terraria weapon is not like guessing a word: you must reason as if at a crafting bench. The rules prove it. They do more than explain three colors; they decide edge cases that only dedicated players encounter: the fate of weapons passed through shimmer, equating crates with chests, the exclusion of Phasesabers. The yellow reserved for the single acquisition method is the board’s clever touch: it’s the game’s vaguest statistic, the one that allows multiple paths, and that’s precisely where partial overlap makes sense. As for the three hint thresholds, they set expectations from the outset: you’ll be in it for a while before you see the image.

The rules lay out their grading without leaving anything to chance. Green signals a statistic identical to that of the weapon of the day. Red signals an error and is accompanied by arrows that show the direction of correction; the game’s example is “Damage: 54↑”, meaning the target weapon deals more damage than 54. Yellow is reserved for a single column, the acquisition method, and means that an acquisition path is shared between the two weapons. Overlap without identity.

Core play

The site presents a single default puzzle: ‘Guess today’s weapon!’. You enter weapon names into the lone input and receive colored feedback (green/red for most stats, yellow only for acquisition) with hint thresholds that unlock the sale price after 3 tries, the tooltip after 7, and the image after 11. The rules describe this single gameplay loop and do not mention any alternate mode.

• Yellow applies to only one column, the acquisition method. Everywhere else it’s green or red: don’t expect a “almost” on the other statistics.
• Rarity is a map of time. The rules say it explicitly: two weapons of the same rarity are obtained at the same stage of the game; a correct rarity places the weapon within the progression even before its name is found.
• The pool is narrower than it appears. Consumables, tools and Phasesabers are excluded from the game, and weapons that can be passed through shimmer are counted as materials.
• Two conventions to remember before reasoning about acquisition: a weapon found in a crate counts as obtained in a chest, and a weapon obtained by shimmer counts as crafted.