Pokle

Pokle is a daily deduction puzzle built around a single three-player Texas Hold'em hand. You can see all three players' hole cards and a table showing how their hands ranked at the flop, the turn, and the river, and your job is to reverse-engineer the five community cards that produced those exact results. Only one board fits every clue, and you get six guesses to find it.

What is Pokle?

Pokle hands you a finished poker hand and asks you to rebuild the part you cannot see. Three players are dealt their two hole cards face up, and a small ranking table tells you who was ahead, who was second, and who trailed at each stage: after the flop, after the turn, and after the river. The five community cards themselves are hidden, and from the way the standings shift across those three stages you have to deduce all five. It is pure logic dressed in poker clothing, so you do not need to gamble or bluff, just read the hands and work backward.

What sets Pokle apart from the wave of Wordle clones is that the puzzle space is poker, not language. Instead of fitting letters into a five-slot word, you are placing actual cards onto a board, and the constraints come from hand strength rather than spelling. The ranking table is the real engine. A key built-in rule helps you narrow things down: the rank of each board card always shows up as a meaningful part of at least one player's hand in at least one phase, as a pair, set, or similar contribution rather than a stray kicker. Combined with the order in which players take the lead, which pins down what arrived on the turn and river, the clues interlock tightly. Flop order does not matter, which trims the search space, but suits, straights, and flushes can still make a single missing card decisive.

The game launched in July 2022, and its footer carries a copyright notice reading Pokle Limited 2022, which is the only place the company name appears. Its creator chose to stay anonymous, describing themselves in an early interview as a run-of-the-mill developer with a background in embedded systems and large-scale websites who plays casual, low-stakes monthly poker with friends and wanted a project of their own. The idea grew from a simple question: if Wordle's answer is a five-letter word, what is poker's equivalent? The answer was the five-card board, with the players' hands serving as the clues. The site is supported through a Ko-fi donation link rather than ads or paywalls.

Feedback uses the familiar three-color scheme applied to cards instead of letters. Green means a card is exactly right in rank and suit, yellow means either the rank or the suit is correct but not both, and grey means neither matches. There is one wrinkle worth knowing: yellow clues do not apply to cards you have already guessed correctly, so once a rank is locked in green in one position, a duplicate of that rank elsewhere in the same guess will not light up yellow. There is also a poker-specific convenience: the suits on the turn and river are auto-corrected, so you can still win even if you misjudge those two suits. When you solve it you can share a spoiler-free grid, and the game tracks your games played, win percentage, current streak, max streak, average guesses, and guess distribution. The vibe is quiet and brainy, friendlier to people who already know hand rankings, and it rewards careful reading over speed.

How to play Pokle

1. Look at the three players' hole cards and the ranking table, noting who leads, who is second, and who is last at the flop, the turn, and the river.
2. Use the rule that each board card's rank appears as a meaningful part of at least one player's hand in at least one phase, as a pair or set rather than a kicker, to list the ranks that can legally appear on the board.
3. Reason out which three flop cards, one turn card, and one river card would reproduce the standings at each stage, since each shift in the lead points to a specific card.
4. Enter your guess for all five community cards, remembering that the order of the three flop cards does not matter.
5. Submit and read the colors: green is an exact match, yellow means rank or suit is right but not both, and grey means neither is right.
6. Adjust your board using the feedback and keep guessing until you solve it within six attempts.

Tips and strategy

• Treat the ranking table as your primary clue, not the hole cards alone: the moment one player overtakes another tells you exactly what the turn or river card had to do.
• Lock ranks before suits. Because each board rank shows up as a meaningful part of a player's hand in some phase rather than as a kicker, you can usually fix the five ranks first, then solve suits as a second pass.
• Watch for flushes and straights the standings imply, since a single suited or connecting card on the turn or river is often what flips the lead and narrows the board to one answer.
• Spend your early guesses to extract information rather than to win outright, placing cards you are unsure about so the yellow and grey feedback prunes possibilities.
• Remember turn and river suits are auto-corrected, so concentrate your suit deductions on the three flop cards where a wrong suit actually costs you.
• If two boards seem to satisfy the flop standings, check the turn and river ranking changes carefully, because the unique solution almost always hinges on which hand improves at exactly that stage.

Good to know

Resets

Daily at midnight (one new puzzle per day)

Guesses

6 attempts

Cost

Free, supported by a Ko-fi donation link

Archive

No past-puzzle archive; daily play only

Publisher

Pokle Limited per the site footer (anonymous creator), launched July 2022

Stats tracked

Games played, win percentage, current streak, max streak, average guesses, and guess distribution

Pokle FAQ

Is Pokle free?

Yes. Pokle is free to play with no paywall. The creator accepts optional support through a Ko-fi donation link.

How many guesses do you get in Pokle?

You get six guesses to reconstruct the five community cards. Within the flop the order of the cards does not matter.

When does Pokle reset?

A new Pokle puzzle is released daily at midnight, so there is one fresh hand to solve each day.

Is there a Pokle archive?

No. Pokle does not offer a playable archive of past puzzles; you play the current day's puzzle only. It does track your stats, including games played, win percentage, current streak, max streak, average guesses, and guess distribution.

Is Pokle related to Wordle?

It is inspired by Wordle's daily format and green/yellow/grey feedback, but it is not made by the same people. Pokle replaces the five-letter word with the five community cards of a Texas Hold'em hand, so the puzzle is poker logic rather than vocabulary.