Pufferdle

About Pufferdle

Pufferdle is a daily guessing game for Stardew Valley fans, built around the game's fishing. Each day it picks a mystery fish from Stardew Valley and challenges you to work out which one it is.

A round starts in the water: you play Stardew Valley's fishing-bar minigame on the day's fish, and how the fish darts and dives in the bar is itself a clue to its identity. Then you name the fish, with six guesses. Each guess colours a set of attributes, the season, weather, location and catch time, to show how close your pick is to the answer.

The puzzle is the same for everyone each day. Alongside the daily there is a Random mode for extra rounds and a Fish Tank, and the game carries the look of Stardew Valley's own menus. It is fan-made and is not an official Stardew Valley product.

It suits players who know the Stardew Valley fish and their habits, and who enjoy that the fishing minigame gives a hint before the guessing even begins. It runs in the browser and is free.

How to play Pufferdle

1. Open pufferdle.com and choose Daily.
2. Play Stardew Valley's fishing-bar minigame on the day's mystery fish, watching how it moves since that hints at which fish it is.
3. Guess which fish it is.
4. Read the coloured clues on each guess: season, weather, location and catch time show how close you are.
5. Name the fish within six guesses; a new fish arrives each day, with Random and Fish Tank modes for more.

Tips

• Watch the fish's movement in the bar: steady, darting or sinking patterns point to particular fish.
• Combine the location and season clues to cut the list of possible fish quickly.
• Legendary and special fish have narrow conditions, so the weather and time clues expose them fast.
• Use Random mode to learn how different fish behave in the minigame before tackling the daily.

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