Factle

Factle is a free daily game from Front Office Sports that turns trivia into a ranking puzzle: each day it asks one fact-based question, and the answer is a top-five list you have to put in exact order. You get five guesses, and color-coded tiles tell you which picks belong and which are sitting in the right spot. It is quick to learn, but nailing the precise order is the real test.

What is Factle?

Factle is a daily ranking puzzle published by Front Office Sports. Each day it poses a single fact-based question whose true answer is a top-five list, and your task is to rebuild that list in the exact order it really ranks. Instead of testing whether you know a stray fact, it tests whether you know how things stack up: most populous countries, highest-grossing films, biggest stadiums, or the leaders in a sports statistic. You get five attempts to place all five entries in their correct positions.

The mechanic borrows the daily-puzzle rhythm popularized by Wordle, but the actual challenge is different. In Wordle you hunt for hidden letters; in Factle you usually have a fair sense of the candidates, and the difficulty lives in the ordering. Picking the right five entries is often the easy half. Sorting them from first to fifth, when several feel close, is where guesses get spent. That shift from recall to ranking is what gives Factle its own identity among the wave of -dle games, and it is why a round can feel more like a logic exercise than a vocabulary test.

Front Office Sports, a sports business media brand founded by Adam White out of a University of Miami class project in 2014, hosts the game on its site. Factle began life independently at factle.app and grew popular before becoming part of the Front Office Sports lineup, which also runs a sports-focused spin-off, Factle Sports, for fans who want every question pulled from the world of athletics. The core trivia edition stays broad, drawing answers from geography, entertainment, history, and culture as well as sports.

Feedback comes through colored tiles that update the moment you submit a row. A green tile means that entry is both in the ranking and sitting in its exact correct slot. A yellow tile means the entry belongs somewhere in the top five but you placed it in the wrong position, which is your cue to slide it up or down. Entries that do not belong at all are flagged so you can drop them entirely. When the round ends you can copy a spoiler-free emoji grid of your colored rows to share your result, the same way Wordle players post their score. Factle is free, needs no account, and runs in any modern mobile or desktop browser, which makes it an easy two-minute daily habit for trivia fans, sports followers, and anyone who likes arguing about rankings.

How to play Factle

1. Read the day's question, which always asks for a top-five fact-based ranking such as the most populous countries or the highest-scoring players.
2. Choose and arrange your five answers in the order you think they rank, from first place down to fifth.
3. Submit the row and watch the tiles change color to grade your attempt.
4. Read the colors: a green tile is the right entry in the right position, and a yellow tile is an entry that belongs in the list but is in the wrong spot.
5. Adjust your lineup using the clues, swapping positions or replacing entries that did not register as part of the top five.
6. Keep refining across up to five total attempts until every tile turns green, then copy your emoji-grid result to share.

Tips and strategy

• Use your first guess to test which five entries actually belong before worrying about exact order, since confirming the roster early saves attempts.
• Treat yellow tiles as ordering hints: those entries are correct picks that just need to move, so reposition them rather than discarding them.
• Lock in greens and stop touching them between guesses; only shuffle the entries that are still yellow or missing.
• For ranking questions, anchor the extremes first. The clear number one and the obvious number five are usually easier to place than the crowded middle.
• When two entries feel interchangeable, swap just that pair on your next guess so a single submission tells you which order is right.
• Lean on real-world magnitude, like population, revenue, or career totals, instead of gut familiarity, because the most famous name is often not the top-ranked one.

Good to know

Publisher

Front Office Sports

Resets

Daily (new puzzle every day)

Guesses

5 attempts

Cost

Free, no account needed

Platform

Web browser (mobile and desktop)

Archive

Past puzzles available via the Factle archive

Factle FAQ

Is Factle free to play?

Yes. Factle is completely free, requires no subscription or payment, and you can play the daily puzzle in your browser without creating an account.

How many guesses do you get in Factle?

You get five attempts. Each guess is a full ranking of five entries, and the tile colors after every submission help you fix the order before your guesses run out.

When does Factle reset?

Factle publishes a new puzzle every day, so a fresh question replaces the previous one on the daily cycle. The exact local reset hour is not officially listed.

Is there a Factle archive?

Yes. Front Office Sports offers a Factle archive where you can go back and play past daily puzzles rather than only the current one.

Is Factle related to Wordle?

Factle is not made by the same people as Wordle, but it shares the format: one puzzle per day, a fixed number of guesses, color-coded tile feedback, and a shareable emoji grid. The twist is that you are ordering a top-five ranking instead of spelling a word.