PoopGuessr
Guess which animal left the droppings.
PoopGuessr is a daily wildlife game built around one unusual skill: reading the signs animals leave behind. Each day it shows a single wildlife photo and asks you to name the animal that left the droppings, giving you up to six guesses with fact-based clues along the way. The premise sounds like a joke, but the game plays it straight as a naturalist exercise, the same way a field guide treats tracks and feathers as evidence.
What is PoopGuessr?
The core loop is quick and self-contained. When you open the site you get today's puzzle: one wildlife photo. You type in an animal, and the game responds with clues drawn from hand-curated animal facts, covering things like habitat, diet, and behavior, that help you rule candidates in or out. You have six guesses to land on the correct animal before the answer is revealed. There is one new puzzle each day, and the header carries a calendar button and a stats view so you can track how you are doing over time.
PoopGuessr is a visual identification game rather than a word or trivia game, and it is built around scat and field signs rather than the more common animal silhouettes or full-body photos. Identifying droppings is a genuine skill that naturalists and trackers use in the field. The About page frames the whole thing as a learning prompt inspired by recognizing tracks, droppings, feathers, and other field signs, and it states plainly that this is not a scientific identification service, noting that signs vary by season, diet, age, and location. The tone in the Guide matches: it is a field guide to twelve animals, including badger, brown bear, goose, horse, moose, otter, rabbit, red deer, red fox, roe deer, wolf, and wombat, and it describes real distinguishing features such as the wombat's unusually angular droppings.
The game keeps a full archive. Every past PoopGuessr puzzle stays playable, and you can reach earlier days through the archive page or the calendar button in the game header. Days you have already finished reopen showing your original result, while days you never played can still be solved as practice. Only your first completion for a given day counts toward your stats, so later replays are treated as practice. The site does not name a creator or host, and it does not state when it launched, so those details are simply not part of what the page tells you.
As you play, the feel is closer to a short nature quiz than a race against a timer. After your guesses the clues surface more facts about the target animal so you can narrow things down, and the answer appears once you solve it or run out of guesses. The photos are open-license, mostly from Wikimedia Commons, with attribution shown after gameplay so it does not spoil the answer. There is no cost and no paywall on the live site. If you get one wrong, the clues and the per-animal facts double as a short lesson, which is where the education angle in the name shows up.
How to play PoopGuessr
- Open PoopGuessr at poopguessr.com to load today's puzzle.
- Study the single wildlife photo shown for the day.
- Enter an animal as your first guess.
- Read the fact-based clues that appear, covering things like habitat, diet, and behavior, and use them to narrow your next guess.
- Keep guessing, up to six times, until you name the correct animal or the answer is revealed.
- Open the calendar button or the archive page to replay earlier puzzles as practice once you finish the day's game.
Tips and strategy
- Read the clues as elimination tools. A diet clue such as herbivore or carnivore can cut your candidate list roughly in half before your next guess.
- Learn a few signature traits from the Guide. Angular droppings point toward a wombat, for example, so distinctive details are worth memorizing.
- Read the Guide before you play seriously; its per-animal notes on habitat, diet, and behavior are the same facts the clues draw from.
- The Guide covers twelve animals, so a common animal from that list is often a safer early guess than a rare species.
- Use your early guesses to draw out clues rather than gambling on an unusual animal right away.
- Practice on archived days to build a mental catalog of which animals leave which signs, since the same knowledge carries over to new puzzles.
Good to know
- Category
- Science / wildlife identification
- Resets
- Daily, one new puzzle per day
- Cost
- Free to play
- Guesses
- Up to 6 per puzzle
- Modes
- Daily puzzle plus a browsable archive
- Archive
- Yes, every past puzzle stays playable
- Feedback
- Fact-based clues from hand-curated animal facts, then the answer on solve or after six guesses
- Platform
- Browser, poopguessr.com
PoopGuessr FAQ
Is PoopGuessr free?
Yes. The live site is free to play, with no cost or paywall observed.
How do you play PoopGuessr?
You look at one daily wildlife photo and guess which animal left the droppings. You get up to six guesses, and fact-based clues about things like habitat, diet, and behavior appear to help you narrow it down.
When does PoopGuessr reset, and is there an archive?
A new puzzle appears once per day. There is also a full archive: every past puzzle stays playable, reachable through the archive page or the calendar button in the game header, though only your first completion for each day counts toward your stats.
Is PoopGuessr like Wordle?
It shares the daily, six-guess format, but it is a visual wildlife identification game rather than a word game. Instead of letters, you work from a photo and curated animal facts to identify a species.
Who made PoopGuessr?
The site does not name a creator or host, and no launch date is stated, so those details are not disclosed on the page.