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The daily puzzle: one board, everybody, once a day
The daily puzzle is the shared scoreboard mode. Five real speakers, five pins, one date. When you send your result to a friend, you know you played the same board.
Why a dated puzzle
Unlimited Classic rounds are good practice, but a score means more when everyone faced the same clues. The daily puzzle picks five respondents from the community pool. When the pool is thin in a territory, it draws from researched profiles instead. Those five speakers stay fixed for twenty-four hours.
The URL includes the date, so a link from yesterday still opens yesterday's board. For a bio or pinned post, use /play, which always redirects to today.
Scoring and streaks
Each round scores how closely your pin lands to the speaker's hometown, using the same answer-pattern similarity model as Classic rather than raw distance alone.
Finish all five and the puzzle records your streak, your best streak, and how you did against the speakers you missed. An optional email reminder can nudge you when a new board is live. No account is required to play.
After you finish
The results screen shows where you pinned versus where each speaker grew up, which answers were most informative, and a share line you can copy. Comparison links under /r/ are personal results and stay out of search indexes on purpose.
If you want more after the daily board, Classic mode and Detective are unlimited.
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More guides and news
- Detective Mode: Spot the Dialect ClueDetective is a new DialectGuessr mode. A stranger says four lines. You name the dialect feature hiding in each one, watch the map close in, and guess where they grew up.Read
- Detective Mode Is LiveDetective is the newest DialectGuessr mode. Four lines from a hidden speaker, name the dialect feature in each one, and pin where they grew up. It is free and needs no account.Read
- The Community Dialect MapThe DialectGuessr map plots every quiz taker's hometown and aggregates answers into regional hex cells, so you can see which vocabulary and pronunciation dominates in each area.Read
Dialect reference
Explore the 65 regional accent guides, the question bank explained, or read how scoring works.