Stardewdle

Stardewdle hides one Stardew Valley crop each day and challenges you to name it in six guesses, using only its farming traits as clues. Every guess is compared to the secret crop across season, type, regrow behavior, growth time, and sell price, so you narrow the field through deduction instead of luck. It is the same crop for every player that day.

What is Stardewdle?

Stardewdle is a daily browser puzzle built around Stardew Valley's crops. Each day the game selects one hidden crop from the farming sim, and your job is to identify it within six guesses using only its in-game farming traits. Everyone playing on a given day is chasing the same secret crop, so it works as a shared daily challenge rather than a randomized practice mode.

What separates Stardewdle from letter-based games like Wordle is that you never spell anything. Instead of letters, your guesses are whole crops, and the feedback compares five concrete attributes between your pick and the answer: the season it grows in, its crop type (fruit, vegetable, flower, or forage), whether it regrows after the first harvest, its growth time in days, and its base sell price in gold. This turns the puzzle into a deduction exercise that rewards actual Stardew Valley knowledge, because you are reasoning about how the game's crops really behave rather than juggling vowels.

The feedback uses a clear color system. Green means that attribute is an exact match with the secret crop. Red means it does not match, and for the two numeric fields, growth time and sell price, a red tile carries an arrow that points you toward higher or lower, so you can see whether the answer takes more or fewer days and sells for more or less gold. Season has a third state: yellow, which appears when your guessed season is one of the answer's growing seasons but the crop also grows in at least one other season, a nod to Stardew's multi-season crops. Once you solve the day's crop, the finish screen also surfaces shared stats such as how many other players cracked it, giving the puzzle a communal feel even though everyone plays solo.

Stardewdle is a free fan project created by Chris Marquez and Omar Siddiqui, built with React on the front end and a Node, AWS Lambda, and DynamoDB back end, with crop data gathered through Python scraping tools. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by ConcernedApe; all crop art and assets come from Stardew Valley itself. By the developers' own count it has drawn well over 500,000 plays. The vibe is cozy but genuinely testing: casual fans may need every guess, while players who have memorized seasons, prices, and regrow behavior can often close it out quickly. It suits anyone who has spent real time planning a Stardew farm and wants a short, thoughtful daily ritual.

How to play Stardewdle

1. Open Stardewdle in your browser and submit any Stardew Valley crop as your first guess.
2. Read the color feedback across the five attributes: green means that trait exactly matches the hidden crop, red means it does not.
3. Compare the season and crop type (fruit, vegetable, flower, or forage) to rule out whole groups of crops at once.
4. Watch for a yellow season tile, which means your guessed season is one of the answer's seasons but the crop grows in another season too.
5. Follow the up or down arrows on the red growth-time and sell-price tiles to learn whether the answer's value is higher or lower than your guess.
6. Keep refining your guesses with the accumulated clues until you land the crop, within your six attempts.

Tips and strategy

• Lead with season and crop type, since a single guess on those two traits eliminates large blocks of the crop list immediately.
• Treat the regrows flag as a hard filter: one-harvest crops and regrowing crops are two cleanly separated sets, so a single regrow result cuts your candidates roughly in half.
• Pay attention to yellow season tiles. A yellow tile is a strong hint that the answer is a multi-season crop, which is a much smaller pool than single-season crops.
• Use the growth-time and sell-price arrows directionally and commit to that side. Do not re-guess a crop whose values you already know fall on the wrong side of an arrow.
• Pick a versatile opening crop whose stats sit in the middle of the range, so both numeric arrows give you usable high or low information instead of an extreme.
• Cross-reference the price and growth-time arrows together. A crop that is both higher priced and longer growing points toward late-season or tree-adjacent cash crops, while cheap and fast points toward early spring staples.

Good to know

Daily reset

New hidden crop once per day

Cost

Free to play in a web browser

Guesses

6 attempts

Clues per guess

Season, crop type, regrows, growth time, sell price

Creators

Chris Marquez and Omar Siddiqui (fan-made)

Plays

Over 500,000 reported by the developers

Stardewdle FAQ

Is Stardewdle free?

Yes. Stardewdle is a free fan-made browser game with no purchase required. It is built by Chris Marquez and Omar Siddiqui and is not affiliated with or endorsed by ConcernedApe, the creator of Stardew Valley.

How many guesses do you get in Stardewdle?

You get six guesses to identify the day's hidden crop. Each guess returns color-coded feedback across five attributes, so even a wrong guess narrows the possibilities.

Is Stardewdle related to Wordle?

It borrows Wordle's daily, six-guess, color-coded format, but you guess whole Stardew Valley crops rather than spelling words, and clues compare farming traits like season, growth time, and sell price.

What does a yellow tile mean in Stardewdle?

Yellow appears only on the season attribute. It means your guessed season is one of the secret crop's growing seasons, but that crop also grows in at least one other season, which flags a multi-season crop.

When does Stardewdle reset?

Stardewdle refreshes with a new crop once per day, and the puzzle is the same for every player that day. The exact reset hour is not officially published, so check the site to see when the next crop goes live.