Platedle

Platedle turns spotting license plates on a long drive into a daily puzzle. Each day there is one plate, a real photo of a US license plate, and the part that names the state, along with anything else that spells it out such as a website or county, is covered with tape. You have six tries to name the state.

The round starts zoomed in on a small piece of the plate: a corner of a picture, a band of colour or part of a slogan. Each wrong guess zooms out a little, so you see more with every try. After a miss you also get the distance in miles from your guess to the right state and an arrow pointing the way, and a US map shades your guesses from cold blue for far away to deep red for next door. When you get it, or run out of tries, the tape comes off and you see the whole plate.

The plates mix current designs with older ones still seen on the road, from all 50 states. Slogans such as Live Free or Die or Famous Potatoes, pictures of arches, mountains and peaches, and colour schemes are the clues. Past plates stay playable from a calendar. They count in your stats but not your streak. The site lists 98 plates in all, each credited to its photographer on Wikimedia Commons, so after about three months the order is shuffled and plates return.

Platedle is made by Faven Games, a small independent studio that also makes the daily games Eatlas, Tilt and It Took. It launched in October 2026, is free in any browser with no account, and may show a few ads kept away from the game. It suits anyone who has played the plate game in the car, and players of Worldle and Statele who want a different kind of clue.