Spotle: daily music game

Spotle is a daily music guessing game where you have to name one mystery artist pulled from the most-streamed acts on Spotify. Every guess you make is compared against the hidden artist across real traits like debut year, genre, listener rank, and nationality, and the colored feedback steers your next pick. In the daily mode one artist drops each day, the same one for every player, and you have ten tries to land it.

What is Spotle?

Spotle is a daily browser game built around recognizing music artists rather than spelling words. Each day the game hides one mystery artist drawn from a pool of roughly the thousand most-streamed musicians on Spotify, and every player worldwide chases that same daily answer. You start typing an artist name, the game compares your pick to the hidden one across a fixed set of musical traits, and you work toward the answer inside a capped number of attempts. There is no account, no download, and no word to unscramble: the whole puzzle is deduction from a real artist's profile.

What separates Spotle from the wider field of Wordle spin-offs is that it does not test vocabulary at all. Instead of letters in the right position, each guess returns a row of attribute cards covering debut album year, group size, listener rank, gender, genre, and nationality. Those six dimensions turn a single guess into a small dossier on how the mystery artist actually charts, performs, and is categorized, so progress comes from knowing music history and streaming popularity rather than from guessing common five-letter words. The result feels closer to a music-trivia deduction puzzle than a spelling game.

The feedback uses a familiar color language with a twist suited to music data. A card turns green when that trait is an exact match, and a softer color (yellow) signals that you are close but not exact, which matters most on the numeric traits. The tolerances are tight: the debut-year card warms up when your guess lands within a few years of the target, the listener-rank card warms when your guessed artist sits within a small streaming-rank window, and nationality can warm when your guess shares a continent with the answer rather than the exact country. The listener-rank card also shows a direction indicator that tells you whether the hidden artist is more or less popular than your guess, so a single early pick can collapse a wide field into a narrower band.

Spotle is a fan-made project that is not affiliated with Spotify, and its daily puzzle numbering had already climbed past the twelve-hundreds by late 2025, reflecting a long unbroken run of daily artists. The vibe is light and social: when you finish, whether you solve it or run out of tries, you get a shareable scorecard that shows your guess path with colored squares but hides the actual answer, which is why solved grids spread cleanly through group chats and feeds without spoiling anyone. There is no full archive to replay past daily puzzles, but you can view the previous day's answer through a 'yesterday's' option in the corner of the screen. Difficulty swings with your music breadth, so casual listeners and deep catalog nerds tend to find it satisfying for different reasons, and an unlimited practice mode lets you keep playing random artists once the daily is done. That unlimited mode serves a fresh random artist to each player, so unlike the daily it is not synced and you will not be racing friends on the same answer.

How to play Spotle

Open the daily Spotle puzzle, which hides one mystery artist chosen from the roughly thousand most-streamed Spotify musicians.
Type the name of any artist you think could be the answer and submit it as your first guess.
Read the row of six attribute cards (debut album year, group size, listener rank, gender, genre, nationality) and note which turned green for an exact match.
Use the yellow cards as near-misses: a warm debut-year or listener-rank card means your guess is close, and a warm nationality card usually means the same continent.
Follow the direction indicator on the listener-rank card, which tells you whether the hidden artist is more or less popular than your guess, and use it to steer your next pick.
Keep narrowing with each clue and lock in the correct artist before you spend all ten guesses.

Tips and strategy

Open with a globally huge, long-running act so the listener-rank indicator and the debut-year card both give you a strong sense of direction on the very first row.
Treat genre and gender as hard filters once they go green, since they instantly remove every artist who does not share those exact traits.
Watch the group-size card closely: knowing whether the answer is a solo act or a band eliminates a large slice of similar-sounding guesses in one move.
Use the nationality card carefully, because a yellow there often means same continent rather than same country, so do not assume an exact-country match too early.
When the debut-year card stays cold, jump your guess by a full musical era instead of nudging it a year or two, since the close-match window is only a few years wide.
If two finalists share five of six traits, let the listener-rank indicator break the tie by pointing you toward the more or less streamed of the pair.

Good to know

Resets: Daily, new artist (reset time reported around midnight, sources vary)
Guesses: 10 attempts per puzzle
Answer pool: About 1,000 top-streamed Spotify artists
Clues compared: 6 traits: debut year, group size, listener rank, gender, genre, nationality
Cost: Free, no sign-up required
Platform: Web browser, plays at spotle.io

Spotle FAQ

Is Spotle free to play?

Yes. Spotle runs in your web browser at spotle.io with no payment and no account or sign-up needed to play the daily puzzle.

How many guesses do you get in Spotle?

You get ten guesses to identify the mystery artist. Each guess returns feedback across the six attribute cards, and using fewer guesses generally gives you a better result to share.

When does Spotle reset?

A new mystery artist appears every day. Sources differ on the exact rollover, with some reporting a midnight UTC reset and others a local-time change, but in all cases the daily puzzle gives every player the same artist within that day's window.

Is there a Spotle archive of past puzzles?

There is no full archive to replay previous daily puzzles, but you can view the previous day's answer by tapping the 'yesterday's' option in the corner of the screen. If you want to keep playing, Spotle also offers an unlimited mode that serves random artists instead of the daily one.

Is Spotle related to Wordle or to Spotify?

Spotle borrows Wordle's once-a-day, color-coded-feedback format but uses music artists instead of words. It is a fan-made game and is not officially affiliated with Spotify, even though its answer pool is drawn from Spotify's most-streamed artists.