Actorle TV

Actorle TV gives you one mystery actor each day and a masked list of the television shows from their career. The titles are hidden at first, so you start with only release years, genres, and ratings to work from. Your job is to name the actor who ties every show on the list together.

What is Actorle TV?

The game works from a single actor's television career. When the puzzle loads you see a list of shows with their titles blanked out, but you can still read each show's release year, its genres, and its rating. Those three details are your opening clues. You type an actor's name into the guess box, and if the actor you guessed appeared in one of the hidden shows, that show's full title is revealed. Each guess that connects peels back another title, so the list slowly fills in and the pattern of a single career comes into focus until you can name the secret actor.

What sets Actorle TV apart is that it is scoped entirely to television. There is a sibling game, the original Actorle at actorle.com, that runs the same idea using an actor's movie filmography. Actorle TV keeps the format but swaps films for series, so the clues are drawn from TV shows rather than feature films. That makes it a different puzzle to solve even for players who know the original, since a familiar actor's TV work often looks nothing like the movies they are known for. The reveal-as-you-go loop also means a wrong guess is rarely wasted: if the actor you named shares a show with the target, you still unlock a title and learn something about the career you are trying to identify.

The game is credited to Laszlo Kiss, and it sits inside a small family of movie and TV puzzles that the site links to, including Moviedle, a box-office game at boxofficega.me, the original Actorle, and a title listed as coming soon called We Love Movies. Actorle TV itself runs as a single daily puzzle. A new challenge appears each day, and a Past Games archive lets you go back and play earlier puzzles you missed. There is no account or paywall to get through, and a contact address, [email protected], is listed if you want to reach the maker. The game notes that it uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

The overall feel is closer to a trivia deduction than a word game. You are not filling in letters, you are reasoning about a career: an actor who has a long-running sitcom, a prestige drama, and a couple of guest spots leaves a very different footprint than one who has spent years on a single procedural. The calm, list-based layout keeps the focus on that reasoning, and the daily format means one clean puzzle a day rather than an endless feed.

How to play Actorle TV

1. Open Actorle TV at actorle.tv and let the day's masked show list load.
2. Read the visible clues on each hidden title: the release year, the genres, and the rating.
3. Look for a career shape in those clues, such as an era, a mix of comedy and drama, or a run of high-rated shows.
4. Type an actor's name into the guess box.
5. Submit your guess: if that actor was in one of the hidden shows, its full title is revealed, giving you a stronger clue.
6. Keep guessing to unlock more titles and narrow the field until you correctly name the secret actor.

Tips and strategy

• Start with the visible years to fix the era of the actor's career before you guess any names.
• Use the genres as a filter: a list heavy on one genre points to a different actor than a mix of many.
• Pay attention to the ratings, since a career full of highly rated shows narrows the pool of likely names.
• Guess a well-known actor from the right era even if you are not sure, because a matching show reveals a title and sharpens the picture.
• Once a title is revealed, use its cast to jump to co-stars who might be the real answer.
• Replay puzzles from the Past Games archive to get a feel for how the year, genre, and rating clues usually line up.

Good to know

Category

Movies & TV

Resets

Daily

Cost

Free

Modes

Single daily puzzle

Archive

Yes, Past Games at /archive/

Creator

Laszlo Kiss

Data

TMDB API (not endorsed by TMDB)

Feedback

Contact email [email protected]

Platform

Browser

Actorle TV FAQ

Is Actorle TV free to play?

Yes. Actorle TV is a free browser game with no paywall on the live site. You just open the page and play the day's puzzle.

How do you play Actorle TV?

Each day you get a masked list of the TV shows one actor has starred in, showing only years, genres, and ratings. You guess actor names, and when a guessed actor appears in a hidden show, that title is revealed. You keep going until you name the secret actor.

When does Actorle TV reset, and can I play old puzzles?

It is a daily game, so a new puzzle appears each day. Earlier puzzles stay available through the Past Games archive at /archive/.

Is Actorle TV like Wordle?

It shares the once-a-day, guess-based format, but instead of letters you deduce a person. You identify a mystery actor from clues about their television career rather than filling in a hidden word.

Who made Actorle TV?

It is credited to Laszlo Kiss and is part of a family of film and TV puzzles that also includes the original movie-based Actorle, Moviedle, and a box-office game.