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Factle is a free daily trivia game where the answer is a real top-five ranking and the puzzle is reproducing its order. Guess the Factle in five tries: rank your candidate answers, submit, and watch tiles flip green, yellow, or gray to show how close your ordering sits to the real thing. Each round takes about two minutes, no account is required, and the archive keeps every past question replayable.
How to play Factle
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One ranking question a day
Factle opens with one ranking question a day, such as the five largest rainforests by area, and the whole puzzle is guessing that top five in order. A new puzzle is published every day, each game takes about two minutes to play, and the whole thing runs in the browser with no download and no account required, which keeps the daily friction at zero. The question stays the same for everyone that day, which makes results comparable across the whole player base the moment the puzzle resets.
The same question for everyone
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Rank five answers, submit
Rank five answers into the answer grid, arranging them in the order you believe is correct, then hit the Submit button to lock the guess in. Dragging or tapping answers into position is the entire interface, so a guess is really a small act of ranking rather than typing, and the interface never gets in the way of the reasoning, and a first guess can be deliberately loose to test the water. There is no penalty for a wrong ranking beyond the try it spends, and every submitted row returns full color feedback regardless of how far off it was, so bold openings cost nothing beyond the attempt itself, which rewards nerve in the first two rows.
Ordering beats knowing alone
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Read green, yellow, gray
Read the tile colors after each guess: green marks an answer in the right spot, yellow means the answer belongs in the top five but sits in the wrong spot, and gray means it is not in the top five at all. Every submitted ranking is graded against the real ranking, so the feedback is positional information about your ordering, not about the answers themselves. Two greens and a yellow already pin down two real members of the top five and prove a third belongs somewhere, which is why reading the grid carefully between guesses matters more than guessing quickly.
Right spot, wrong spot, not top 5
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Five tries, then share
Use up to five tries to reproduce the real ranking exactly, then share the result grid; the emoji grid copies to the clipboard and pastes anywhere, and the solved modal counts down to the next daily puzzle. Missed days are not lost, because the Factle Archive lists past puzzles ready to replay, each with its full question and date, stretching back through the site’s history. The share grid uses emoji squares, so it reads cleanly in any chat without spoiling answers for anyone still working on the board.
The emoji grid copies clean
Factle tips and strategy
Anchor the first slot first
The top position carries the most information, because a green first answer collapses the entire search space in one stroke. Spend your opening guess testing your strongest conviction at number one, even if the rest of the row is deliberate filler, because the feedback on filler answers is free membership testing. A confirmed anchor turns every later guess into a sorting problem instead of a selection problem, and sorting is always easier than selecting under pressure. On a five-slot board, one anchor plus four yellows is already victory in sight.
Burn cheap guesses on testing
With five tries available, an early throwaway ranking that mixes untested answers reveals which of them are gray immediately. Testing four new candidates per guess clears the field faster than perfecting one row ever will, which is the entire argument for boldness early. The tries are the resource; spend them on information early and precision late, and the balance between the two is the whole strategy. The fifth try should never be the first time an answer enters the board, and a disciplined fourth guess usually makes the fifth a formality.
Replay archive boards
The Factle Archive holds past puzzles with their full questions, and replaying old boards teaches the house style of its rankings: how often geography, sports, and pop culture appear, and how the top five tends to be distributed across famous and obscure entries alike. Old boards are free practice that never touches the daily, and they carry zero risk to any streak. The flavor knowledge transfers directly to guessing what belongs in a top five and what the writers consider rank-worthy at all.
Treat yellow as membership proof
A yellow tile tells you the answer belongs somewhere in the top five, just not where you put it. Keep that answer on the board and shuffle its position instead of dropping it for an untested alternative that could be gray. Each yellow is one confirmed member of the real ranking, settled and beyond debate, and five yellows is a solved puzzle waiting to be reordered. Shuffling confirmed members costs nothing but patience.
Re-read the ranking metric
Every Factle question names its metric explicitly, like by area, by date established, or by spending, and the real ordering follows that metric strictly. Re-read the metric before each guess, because a right answer slotted by the wrong measure stays yellow forever, no matter how many times it is resubmitted in that slot. The question is the puzzle's own hint.
Share the grid with friends
The emoji result grid copies to the clipboard and pastes into any chat, which turns the daily into a quiet comparison of reasoning rather than speed. Comparing which slots friends missed shows which end of the ranking trips people up. The grid settles arguments without spoiling answers for anyone still playing, which is the whole point of emoji squares over plain text, and why the share grid travels so well between chats.
Factle vs other daily games
Daily Tens
Order vs. namingDaily Tens asks players to name the ten entries of a top-ten list with five wrong guesses as the only limit, while Factle asks players to rank five answers in the correct order with five graded tries. Daily Tens scores by naming the entries at all; Factle scores by position, so a right answer in the wrong slot still reads yellow. Both are ranking trivia built on real-world data, but Factle’s feedback grid makes it a deduction game, while Daily Tens stays pure recall under a miss budget. [Daily Tens](/game/daily-tens)
Wrong Answers Only
Rankings vs. lettersWrong Answers Only keeps Factle's crowd-scoring heart but flips the goal: every option is wrong, and you win by picking the one the room laughed at hardest. Factle rewards knowing the consensus truth; Wrong Answers Only rewards predicting the consensus joke. The two share a social, party-game spirit that pure recall games lack. Playing them on consecutive nights shows how differently you read a crowd when it is being factual versus funny. Both are quick browser games with no signup, so the barrier to trying both is essentially zero.
Spotle Movies
Facts vs. flagsSpotle Movies grades each film guess against a fixed attribute table, like release year and genre, turning movie fandom into pure deduction. Factle asks for the top five answers to one question in order, turning general knowledge into precision recall. Spotle Movies narrows one hidden film from many clues; Factle unspools one ranked list from memory. Both reward ordered thinking, but one runs on cinema trivia and the other on crowd consensus, so movie nights and trivia nights rarely pick the same favourite. Both fit a coffee break and share the once-a-day cadence, so stacking them is a common morning routine.
Factle FAQ
How do I play factle in my browser?
Open factle.app in any modern browser, read the day’s ranking question, and drag five answers into the order you think is right. No app download and no account are required, and the whole round takes about two minutes. The same question runs for the whole player base each day.
How many tries do I get in factle?
Five tries per puzzle. Each submitted ranking is graded with tile colors: green for a right spot, yellow for a top-five answer in the wrong spot, and gray for an answer not in the top five at all.
Is factle free to play every day?
Yes. Factle is completely free to play, with no subscription or payment required, and no account is needed to play the daily puzzle. A new puzzle is published every day.
Can I play factle puzzles from earlier days?
Yes. The Factle Archive lists past puzzles with their full questions, so a missed day can be replayed whenever it suits. Browsing the archive also teaches the house style of the rankings, from geography to sports business, before the next daily drops.
Who makes factle?
Factle is made by Front Office Sports, a sports business media company, and lives at factle.app. A sibling game, Factle Sports, runs the same ranking format on sports questions.
How do I share my factle result?
Finish the daily and use the share button: the emoji result grid copies to the clipboard and pastes into any chat without spoiling the answers. Friends still playing see only your color grid, never the answers, which keeps group chats spoiler-free.
Factle update notes
2026-11-12
Verified on 2026-11-08 against factle.app and the live game bundle operated by Front Office Sports, plus the Wayback Machine record for launch dating. The how-to-play rules, the tile legend, and the FAQ answers quoted above all come from the official site itself, read in the rendered page and the game code.
Factle is completely free with no subscription and no account required.
Each puzzle is a ranking question guessed in five tries.
Tiles mark right spot, wrong spot, and not top 5.
A new puzzle is published every day and takes about two minutes.
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