What is Whodle?
Whodle is a person-guessing game built on comparison rather than letters. Five columns—OCCUPATION, GENDER, ALIVE, COUNTRY and BIRTH YEAR—sit across the board and remain empty until you name someone. You guess by typing into a search box and selecting a name from the dropdown it offers. Every guess fills a row of five cells comparing your pick against the hidden figure. The rules give you six attempts.
How to play Whodle
- Type a famous person's name into the search box and select from the dropdown list.
- Read the five cells that fill in: occupation, gender, alive status, country of birth and birth year.
- Follow the colors, and on the birth year column follow the arrow as well.
- Narrow down the field and name the right person within six guesses.
Reading the feedback
Green marks an exact match, red marks wrong, and yellow appears only on the birth year column to indicate within ten years. The birth year cell also carries an up or down arrow showing whether the answer is higher or lower than your guess. Four of the five columns are binary, so all the shading lives in the date.
Why the columns work
Attribute guessers rely on columns that genuinely divide the field. Whodle uses five: occupation, gender, living status, country of birth, and year of birth. They narrow down famous people from different angles. Since only the birth year has a middle setting, the board is quick to read. The up and down arrow makes each guess part of a binary search, steadily reducing the possibilities. It is satisfying to watch everyone who has ever been famous shrink to a handful of candidates in three or four moves.
Tips for a faster solve
Yellow appears only for the birth year, and it means the answer is within ten years. Treat it as a decade-wide net. The other four columns never offer that kind of range.
The arrow does more work than the color. A red birth year with an up arrow eliminates everyone born earlier, so opening with someone from the middle of the plausible range buys you a bigger cut than opening with a favorite.
The search box is a closed list: you pick from the dropdown, so if a name does not appear it is not in the pool. That is itself information about how large the pool is.
Common questions
The rules give six guesses. The page states it twice, in the how-to list and in the about section.
The game plays without an account, and the leaderboard beneath the board is populated with guest names.
Only the birth year can be close. The rules define close as within ten years. Occupation, gender, alive status and country are green or red.