THEATERLE Character Guesser

The Character Guesser sits beside THEATERLE's Show Guesser, where you name a mystery musical. Here the answer is a person on stage instead: one character from a Broadway musical, chosen fresh each day at midnight and the same for everyone. The board is dated, and you have eight guesses.

You type any Broadway character into the guess box, with an autocomplete list to keep guesses valid, and each guess fills a row of five clues. Show turns green when your character comes from the same musical. Year compares the premiere years of the two shows, gold when close, with an arrow pointing earlier or later. Role says whether the part is a lead or a supporting one, Composer whether the two shows share a composer, and Gender whether that matches. Burgundy means no match.

A good game usually starts wide, with a well-known character from a mid-era show, follows the year arrows to the right decade, and switches to that musical's cast once Show turns green. When you finish you can share a grid of coloured squares that gives nothing away. A Practice mode lets you play between dailies, and the site has guides to hundreds of shows and characters.

It is free, needs no account and keeps your streak on your device. It suits musical theatre fans who know casts as well as titles, and players of attribute guessing games such as the character -dles.