Showdle

Showdle works like the attribute-guessing games built on Wordle, but every answer is a television series. You type the name of any show in its database of several hundred, from sitcoms and prestige dramas to reality and animated series, and the game lays your guess out in a row of five columns next to the hidden show.

Each column is coloured. Premiere year turns green when it is right and yellow when it is in the right decade. Seasons is green when exact and yellow within two aired seasons. Genre is green for the same sub-genre, such as Workplace comedy or Legal drama, and yellow for the same main genre. Format is live-action, animated, documentary or reality. Network turns yellow when your show aired on a channel or streamer owned by the same parent company, and the game lists those ownership groups. You have 16 guesses.

A new show appears at midnight New York time, and a countdown shows how long is left. A calendar lets you play earlier days; the archive reaches back to late September 2025. Around the main puzzle sit a dozen side games: Son of the Manias asks you to name ten characters from their descriptions, SHOW Me The Lie gives five sentences a day that may contain false details, and there are daily rounds of hangman, a ten-question quiz, a reverse mode with all the green clues given upfront, and descriptions to repair. Two timed modes and a custom puzzle maker can be replayed as often as you like.

The game is made by Wilson Cissel and is free, with no account. It suits people who watch a wide range of television, since the answer can just as easily be a cooking competition as a crime drama.