Blog about DLEs

In March 2022, Heardle was getting 69 million monthly visitors. Built by one unemployed developer, who pitched it to his friends as a joke in a group chat. Seventeen months later it was dead. What happened? Spotify acquired it.

A 100-point scoring system for evaluating daily puzzle games — concept, time to first guess, gameplay, juice, visuals, mobile experience, share grids, and monetization. The criteria I use to review every DLE that comes my way, now made public.

Why does this website even exist? The story of how DLES.gg started, the rules for listing games, and how you can help grow the collection.

Nearly five years after Wordle sparked a movement, DLES.gg now catalogs 789 active daily games. We break down the category distribution and the knowledge vs. logic divide across the entire ecosystem.