Pokedle

Pokedle is the daily guessing game Pokémon Minigames was built around. One character from the Pokémon anime is hidden every day, and you have eight attempts to name them. Every guess you make is compared against the answer across eight attributes at once, so even a wrong name hands you a fistful of information.

The attributes are the ones a fan actually reasons with: the character's signature type, gender, trainer class, organization, home region, debut series, whether they own a legendary Pokémon, and a numeric power level. A single guess can tell you the answer is a Kanto gym leader with no legendary and a power level above the one you tried — which is usually enough to cut the roster from a hundred and fifty names to a dozen.

Type a character name into the search box. It suggests up to eight portraits from two letters onward, and names you have already used are removed from the list so you never spend an attempt twice. Submit, and a row of eight coloured tiles appears at the top of the board.

Green means that attribute matches the hidden character exactly, orange means it is close, and red means it is wrong. The power level tile behaves differently: it is green when the numbers match, and red with an arrow otherwise — up when the answer is stronger than your guess, down when it is weaker. That single column turns the endgame into a binary search.

Three hint cards sit above the board and unlock as you spend attempts: the answer's organization after three guesses, a blurred portrait after five, and the first letter of the name after seven. Everything resets at midnight UTC, and once you have finished the day you can go back and play the previous six.

Open with a character who splits the roster rather than one you suspect. A well-known trainer from a common region tells you very little when everything comes back red; a Pokémon rather than a human, or a villain rather than a gym leader, rules out whole blocks of the cast whichever way the tiles land.

Read the power level arrow before the coloured tiles. It is the only attribute that orders the entire roster, so two guesses with arrows pointing at each other bracket the answer into a narrow band, and you can then use the categorical tiles to pick who inside that band fits.

Do not rush to spend eight attempts. The daily leaderboard ranks by time and the hints only unlock at three, five and seven guesses, so working out what you already know from the board is cheaper than firing off another name — and both the easy and hard boards keep their own answer, streak and leaderboard, so a good run on one is never spoiled by a bad run on the other.