Picguessr

About Picguessr

Picguessr is a free character guessing game played in the browser, in English or French. Its Solo mode is the Daily Character: one numbered puzzle a day, the same for everyone, with a mystery character shown as a coarse grid of coloured squares. The catalogue mixes characters from films, TV series, cartoons, comics, manga and anime, and video games, so one day can be a Marvel hero and the next a sitcom doctor or a League of Legends champion.

A round starts with five points available and four lives. You type a character name into the box and submit it, or hold the Skip button for two seconds to pass. Every wrong guess or skip lowers the score, and the round ends when you name the character or run out of tries. A counter shows how many players have already won that day, and a leaderboard ranks scores.

Guests can play the daily challenge three times, and then the game asks for an account to keep playing. A free account saves your score on the leaderboard, starts your daily streak, keeps your levels and opens the archive of previous daily characters, where each date keeps its own tries and result. A streak counter sits in the header, and a Shop sits beside the Solo and Multiplayer modes.

Beyond the daily, Picguessr has a Multiplayer mode: create a private game for 2 to 8 players, pick the categories and between 5 and 30 characters, and see who recognises them first. It suits players who know their pop culture across screens and want a quick picture puzzle rather than a clue-by-clue -dle.

How to play Picguessr

1. Open the Daily Character from the Solo menu on picguessr.io.
2. Look at the pixelated picture of today's mystery character.
3. Type the character's name in the guess box and submit it.
4. If you are wrong, a life is used and the points on offer drop; try again with what you now suspect.
5. Hold Skip for two seconds if you want to pass a try instead of guessing.
6. Name the character within four tries to keep the points left.
7. Create a free account to keep playing after your three guest dailies and to put your score on the leaderboard.

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Tips

• Read the colours first: a hair colour, a costume or a skin tone often narrows it to one franchise.
• The catalogue covers films, TV, cartoons, comics, anime and video games, so do not lock onto one medium too early.
• Skipping costs as much as a wrong guess, so make a guess whenever you have a real candidate.

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