Weakdle

Weakdle is a daily Pokemon puzzle built around the type chart instead of the alphabet. Each day hides a single type or a two-type combination, and your job is to figure out what it is from the way it takes damage. You guess types and read the weakness feedback until the hidden answer comes into focus.

What is Weakdle?

At its core, Weakdle takes the Wordle format and points it at Pokemon type effectiveness. The game hides a type or dual-type each day, and you make guesses drawn from the 18 attacking types. Rather than spelling out a word, you are reconstructing a weakness pattern: which attacking types hit the hidden answer for extra damage. Every guess narrows the field, and the feedback tells you how your chosen type relates to the real weakness profile.

What sets it apart from the usual run of -dle clones is that it never asks you to name a specific Pokemon or guess letters. You are reasoning about the type chart directly. A dual-type answer stacks two types together, and the order you guess those two types does not matter, so you can focus on the combination rather than the sequence. Because several type combinations can share the same set of five weaknesses, you keep guessing until you land on the exact answer.

The creator describes a very large puzzle space. With five attacking-type weaknesses drawn from 18 types, there are 8,568 weakness sets, and those spread across the 171 unique type combinations a Pokemon can have. The creator sums this up as roughly 4,000 years of daily puzzles, which is why the answers keep feeling different rather than repeating.

Weakdle was made by Den Totino, who publishes it at dentotino.com. Den Totino also built a companion game, Weakdoku, a grid-based game that combines Weakdle with Pokedoku and lives at weakdoku.dentotino.com. If you enjoy the deduction in Weakdle and want a grid version, that is the sibling to look for.

The feel of the game is quiet and analytical. There is one puzzle per day, so a session is short and self-contained: you open it, work the type chart in your head, and close it once you have landed the answer. The per-guess feedback shows how a guessed type lines up with the hidden answer's weaknesses, which turns each attempt into a small logic step rather than a shot in the dark. It rewards players who already carry the type chart in their memory, and it quietly teaches it to those who do not.

How to play Weakdle

1. Open Weakdle at dentotino.com/weakdle.
2. Read the day's prompt, which asks you to identify today's hidden Pokemon type or dual-type.
3. Choose one of the 18 attacking types as your guess and submit it.
4. Read the feedback on each guess to see how that type relates to the hidden answer's weaknesses.
5. Use what each guess reveals to rule types in or out, remembering that for a dual-type answer the order of the two types does not matter.
6. Keep guessing until you correctly identify the hidden type or type combination, since several combinations can share the same five weaknesses.

Tips and strategy

• Learn the Pokemon type chart before you start, since the whole puzzle turns on which attacking types deal extra damage.
• Open with common, high-coverage attacking types to carve the field down quickly.
• Treat each guess as a logic step: note what the feedback rules out, not just what it confirms.
• For dual-type days, think in combinations rather than a fixed order, because the order of the two guessed types does not matter.
• Keep the five weaknesses in mind and match the pattern you have uncovered against the type combinations that could produce it.
• When two candidate answers share the same weaknesses so far, pick a next guess that would separate them rather than one that confirms what you already know.

Good to know

Category

Video games (Pokemon type-chart deduction)

Resets

Daily, a new puzzle each day

Cost

Free to play

Modes

Daily puzzle

Creator

Den Totino

Related game

Weakdoku (weakdoku.dentotino.com)

Puzzle space

18 types, 171 unique type combinations

Platform

Browser, dentotino.com/weakdle

Weakdle FAQ

Is Weakdle free?

Yes. Weakdle is free to play in the browser at dentotino.com/weakdle.

How do you play Weakdle?

You guess Pokemon types from the 18 available and use the weakness feedback on each guess to work out the hidden type or dual-type of the day. For dual-type answers, the order of the two types you guess does not matter, and you keep guessing until you find the exact answer.

When does Weakdle reset?

Weakdle gives you a new puzzle each day. The exact reset time and timezone are not stated on the page.

Is Weakdle like Wordle?

It borrows the daily, guess-and-feedback format of Wordle, but instead of letters or words you deduce a Pokemon type or dual-type from its weakness pattern, so it tests knowledge of the type chart rather than vocabulary.

Who made Weakdle?

Weakdle was made by Den Totino, who publishes it at dentotino.com and also created the related game Weakdoku.