CR-dle (Critdle)

CR-dle (the site calls itself Critdle) is a daily guessing game for fans of Critical Role, the long-running show in which Matthew Mercer and his cast play Dungeons & Dragons on camera. The answer is one character from across the campaigns: player characters from Vox Machina, the Mighty Nein and Bells Hells, guest characters, and NPCs, with characters from the fourth campaign in the list too. The game holds 130 characters in all.

You type a character's name and choose them from the list that drops down. Each guess becomes a row of seven tiles: race, class, campaign, type (main player character, guest player character or NPC), gender, status and the cast member who plays them. A green tile matches the answer and a red one does not; a character with more than one class can show a part match when only some of the classes are shared. You have ten guesses, and after five you can ask for a hint. A win shows the character's portrait, your guess count, a Share button and a countdown to the next character.

The character is chosen by a hash of the date, so everyone playing on the same calendar day gets the same one, and it changes at midnight where you are. Because the pick is drawn from 130 names rather than run through them in order, a character can come back after a few weeks. A Past Puzzles calendar lets you go back and play earlier days, and a Playtest mode gives practice rounds outside the daily.

The board is a plain dark page that reads well on a phone, where each guess folds into a card of labelled tiles. It suits viewers who know the cast and their characters across campaigns, and D&D players who like the attribute-guess format of LoLdle and its many fan versions.