Cosmeredle: daily trivia game

Cosmeredle is a daily guessing game for fans of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere, the shared universe behind Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive, and Elantris. Each day hides one secret character, and every guess you make is compared against the answer across traits like homeworld, species, abilities, and first appearance. Color cues steer you from a familiar face toward the exact figure of the day, and the daily puzzle is solved in six tries.

What is Cosmeredle?

Cosmeredle is a daily browser game built around Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere, the connected universe that holds Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive, Elantris, Warbreaker, and the other works set across its shared cosmology. Each day there is one secret character drawn from those books, and your job is to identify that person by entering guesses of your own. There is nothing to download and no word to spell. Instead you are reasoning through a cast of hundreds of figures spread across many planets and magic systems, which makes it a trivia and deduction game rather than a vocabulary one.

The core loop is comparison. When you submit a character, the game lines your pick up against the hidden answer across several attributes, including homeworld, species, abilities, first appearance, and the book where the character shows up. Each attribute is colored to tell you how close you landed: green means that detail matches the answer exactly, yellow means it is a partial or related match, and gray means it does not match. Reading those colors across a few guesses lets you triangulate. A green homeworld tells you which planet the answer belongs to, while a yellow column points you toward something close to the answer without being a full match, so you can lean in that direction on your next pick. You have six guesses to land the right name, so each comparison counts.

What sets Cosmeredle apart from a plain Wordle clone is that it leans entirely on lore rather than letters. Knowing the spelling of a name does nothing for you here. What helps is remembering which characters come from Scadrial versus Roshar, who can burn metals, who bonds with spren, and when a given figure first walks onto the page. That makes it a natural fit for readers deep into the series and a steady way for newer fans to test how much of the universe they have absorbed. A fresh character unlocks every day at midnight UTC, so the puzzle is the same for everyone on a given date, which is what makes comparing results meaningful.

The game is free to play, and you can play anonymously straight from the page. Creating an account is optional and adds extras such as saved statistics, syncing across devices, a running history of characters you have solved, and leaderboards that rank you against other Cosmere fans. With streak tracking and the once-a-day rhythm that the broader -dle genre is known for, it gives you a reason to return each day, but the satisfaction comes from lore recall and careful elimination rather than guessing letters. It rewards patient readers who enjoy narrowing a huge cast down to a single name within the six allotted guesses.

How to play Cosmeredle

Open Cosmeredle and start typing the name of any Cosmere character to make your first guess.
Read the attribute row that appears, where green means an exact match, yellow means a partial or related match, and gray means no match.
Check the homeworld and species columns first to lock down which planet and people the answer belongs to.
Use the abilities and book or first-appearance columns to separate characters who share the same world.
Keep guessing within your six tries, letting each new color cut down the field until you name the correct character.
Come back the next day, since a new daily character unlocks at midnight UTC.

Tips and strategy

Open with a major character from a series you know well, since their homeworld and species columns will quickly split the cast into useful groups.
Treat a yellow result as a sign that you are close on that attribute without matching it exactly, and adjust your next guess toward something related rather than picking at random.
Use the first-appearance and book columns as a timeline filter to tell apart figures who share a planet but debut in different stories.
When a homeworld turns green, restrict your remaining guesses to that planet so you stop wasting attempts on the wrong world.
Picture the universe by world, Scadrial, Roshar, Sel, Nalthis and beyond, and let each green attribute eliminate entire planets at once.
With only six guesses, spend early picks on characters that split the remaining suspects rather than on long-shot single names.

Good to know

Type: Daily Cosmere character guessing game (trivia)
Resets: Daily at midnight UTC
Guesses: Six tries per daily puzzle
Cost: Free to play
Attributes compared: Homeworld, species, abilities, first appearance, book
Account: Optional, for saved stats, device sync, and leaderboards
Source material: Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere (Mistborn, Stormlight Archive, Elantris, and more)

Cosmeredle FAQ

Is Cosmeredle free?

Yes. Cosmeredle is free to play directly in your browser, and you can play anonymously. Making an account is optional and adds saved statistics, cross-device syncing, and leaderboards.

How many guesses do you get in Cosmeredle?

The daily puzzle gives you six tries to identify the hidden character. Each guess returns colored attribute feedback to help you close in before your attempts run out.

When does Cosmeredle reset?

A new secret character unlocks once per day at midnight UTC, so everyone is solving the same puzzle on a given date.

Is Cosmeredle related to Wordle?

It borrows the daily once-a-day format and the green, yellow, and gray color feedback from Wordle, but it is a character deduction game about Cosmere lore rather than a word-spelling game.

What do the colors mean in Cosmeredle?

For each attribute, green marks an exact match with the hidden character, yellow marks a partial or related match, and gray means that detail does not match the answer.

Which books does Cosmeredle pull characters from?

Characters come from across Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere, including Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive, Elantris, Warbreaker, and other connected works.