What is Spotle?
Spotle is a daily guessing game where you identify a recording artist from a roster of one thousand names. You have ten guesses, and each attempt is scored against the hidden answer. The game rewards deduction over direct knowledge, so you can solve it by reading feedback rather than recognizing the artist outright.
How to play Spotle
- Press PLAY on the front page.
- Type an artist name from Spotle's thousand-artist roster.
- Read the score returned for each guess to narrow the field.
- Continue refining your guesses based on feedback. You have ten attempts total.
Reading the feedback
Every guess is scored against the hidden artist. You have ten guesses, so each one should eliminate possibilities and narrow the field. The feedback shows how closely your guess matches across several attributes, allowing you to triangulate the answer even if you have never heard of the correct artist.
Why play Spotle?
Spotle is a deduction puzzle built around a roster of one thousand artists. With ten guesses, a careful player can solve most days by elimination, even without knowing the artist beforehand. It suits people who enjoy Wordle's information-squeezing but find five-letter words dry. The game is free and does not require an account.
Tips for a more deliberate approach
Use your first few guesses to probe different directions, such as genres, eras, and mainstream or niche artists. Varied probes produce more useful comparisons than guesses involving closely similar artists.
Treat every guess as information. Use the scores to eliminate large parts of the roster and identify which attributes matter.
Choose names that distinguish among the candidates still in play. With only ten guesses, repeating similar artists wastes opportunities to narrow the field.
You can win without prior knowledge of the day's artist. Use the scored guesses to triangulate the answer through elimination.