Spotle Game

What is Spotle?

Spotle is a free daily music game from Flatwhite Studios. The answer is a solo artist or group. You choose from a searchable roster of about 1,000 artists and get up to ten guesses. The daily game starts with an artist search, so you can make a first guess without identifying an audio clip.^[1][3]

Press Play and type an artist’s name. Pick the matching entry from the list. Each guess adds a row with the artist’s debut, group size, popularity, gender, genre and nationality. Use the row to rule out candidates before spending the next guess.^[1]

What do Spotle’s colors and arrows mean?

Green marks an exact match. A yellow debut year means the mystery artist debuted within five years, a yellow popularity tile puts the ranks within 50 places, and a yellow country means the two artists are from the same continent. The game uses the year of an artist’s debut studio album and a popularity rank based on all-time streams.^[1]

Read arrows in the context of their column. An up arrow on Debut points to a later year. An up arrow on Popularity means the answer is more popular and therefore has a smaller rank number. In a made-up clue row, a 2010 debut with yellow and an up arrow puts the target between 2011 and 2015. If that row also shows a green country, look for an artist from that country who debuted in that range.^[1]

How to make each guess count

For your first guess, pick an artist whose era, genre and home country you can recall without looking anything up. Once you have a green clue, hold it fixed when you can. Change the qualities that are still uncertain. For example, after an exact country match but a different genre, try another artist from that country in a genre you have not tested.

The group-size clue is based on the lineup the publisher treats as most iconic. Each artist also has one main genre in the game. Read the tiles as Spotle’s own labels when a musician has released work in several styles or a band’s lineup has changed.^[1]

When do hints unlock, and can you play yesterday’s Spotle?

After your sixth guess, Spotle offers one optional clue from a choice of three. It can be a fact about collaborators or awards, depending on the artist, and choosing it uses no guess. Read your existing rows first so you can choose a hint that resolves a question you still have.^[1]

A new daily artist arrives at midnight New York time. Use the original Archive to choose a past puzzle. If you’re sharing a score with someone in another time zone, include the puzzle date so you can compare the same round without giving away the artist.^[2][4]

How do you save your Spotle progress?

You can start the daily puzzle as a guest. The embedded original keeps guest guesses in the browser. Use the same browser and the same play location when returning to a round. Storage settings can affect whether the embedded and standalone games share a session. The publisher offers accounts for features such as synced progress and leaderboards.^[1][3]