Showdle
Guess the TV show from a set of daily clues.
Showdle is a daily guessing game about television. Each day it picks one mystery TV show, and you try to name it by entering show titles and reading the colored feedback each guess returns. That feedback covers several pieces of show metadata at once, including release year, number of seasons, genre, format, and network.
What is Showdle?
The main mode, "Guess Today's TV Show," works on the same deductive idea as Wordle but applied to television. You type a show title and submit it as a guess. Instead of scoring letters, Showdle scores attributes: it tells you how your guessed show compares to the hidden answer on year, seasons, genre, format, and network. A match on one attribute is a solid clue, a near-miss points you in a direction, and a miss rules out a group of candidates. You keep guessing, folding each round of feedback into the next, until you land on the correct show.
What sets Showdle apart from most single-attribute TV guessing games is how much it gives you per guess and how much it packages around the core puzzle. Because each guess grades several metadata fields together, a single title can rule out a large group of shows at once, so it helps to pick guesses that test a specific attribute rather than just shows you happen to like. On top of the daily puzzle, the site carries a large set of bonus modes: Reverse Showdle, which shows metadata upfront and gives you 8 guesses to name the matching show; Showdle Hangman, where you guess letters to reveal a title; Character Showdle, with three tries per character; Description Mania, which runs 10 shows at three guesses each; Character Mania, where you name characters across 10 shows; the Ultimate Show Quiz of 10 questions once a day; Flash Format and Decade Dash, both 60-second timed rounds; SHOW Me The Lie, where you spot false information across 5 daily rounds; and Fix The Description, a fill-in-the-blank mode. There is also a Custom Showdle creator for building and sharing your own puzzles.
Showdle was made by Wilson Cissel, credited on the site as "Made by Wilson Cissel" with a link to his portfolio at wilsoncissel.com. The puzzle resets every day, and a past-puzzle calendar lets you pick an earlier date and replay that day's puzzle. The game is free to play, with no payment shown on the site.
When you finish, a Share Results button lets you post your outcome, and the Custom Showdle feature lets you pass around your own puzzles. The site also links out to a community Discord and a contact option. The overall feel is closer to a trivia collection than a single quick puzzle: you can play the day's show, then run through hangman, character reveals, timed sprints, and the spot-the-lie mode when you want more.
How to play Showdle
- Open Showdle at showdle.com in your browser.
- Start the main "Guess Today's TV Show" puzzle and type a TV show title as your first guess.
- Read the colored feedback across the metadata fields: release year, number of seasons, genre, format, and network.
- Use that feedback to rule out shows that do not fit and choose a next guess that tests the attributes you are still unsure about.
- Keep guessing and refining until you identify the correct show, then use Share Results to post your outcome.
- Try the bonus modes such as Reverse Showdle, Showdle Hangman, Character Showdle, or the timed Flash Format and Decade Dash rounds, or replay earlier days from the past-puzzle calendar.
Tips and strategy
- Lead with a wide, well-known show to get a clean read on year, seasons, genre, format, and network before narrowing.
- Treat each attribute as its own filter: a matched network or format can cut the candidate list far more than guessing similar shows over and over.
- Use the number-of-seasons and release-year hints together to bracket the era and run length of the answer.
- In Reverse Showdle, lean on the metadata shown upfront since you have 8 guesses to work with.
- In Description Mania and Character Showdle, spend your limited tries (three per show or character) on your strongest read rather than testing long shots.
- Play the timed modes, Flash Format and Decade Dash, only after you are comfortable, since each round lasts just 60 seconds.
Good to know
- Category
- TV shows
- Resets
- Daily
- Cost
- Free to play
- Modes
- Main daily puzzle plus Reverse Showdle, Showdle Hangman, Character Showdle, Description Mania, Character Mania, Ultimate Show Quiz, Flash Format, Decade Dash, SHOW Me The Lie, Fix The Description, and a Custom creator
- Archive
- Yes, replay past days from a calendar
- Creator
- Wilson Cissel
- Feedback
- Colored clues across year, seasons, genre, format, and network; Share Results button
- Platform
- Browser
Showdle FAQ
Is Showdle free?
Yes. Showdle is free to play in a browser, with no payment shown on the site.
How do you play Showdle?
In the main mode you guess a TV show by title. Each guess returns colored feedback across metadata fields, including release year, number of seasons, genre, format, and network, and you use those clues to narrow down the correct show.
When does Showdle reset, and can I play old puzzles?
The main puzzle resets daily. A past-puzzle calendar lets you pick an earlier date and play a previous day's puzzle.
Is Showdle like Wordle?
It uses the same deductive guessing idea as Wordle, but instead of grading letters it grades TV show attributes such as year, seasons, genre, format, and network, and it adds many bonus modes beyond the daily puzzle.
Who made Showdle?
Showdle was made by Wilson Cissel, credited on the site with a link to his portfolio at wilsoncissel.com.