A practical side-by-side guide to the best daily history puzzles on the web — what each one does well, and where they fall short.
If you finished Wordle and want something with more depth, you've probably ended up on Yeardle, Histordle, or one of their cousins. They all share the same daily-puzzle DNA — one event, one chance per day, a streak that lives or dies on consistency — but the gameplay and difficulty vary more than you'd expect. Below is a clear comparison of the seven most popular options, including Guess The Date, so you can pick the one that fits how hard you want to think today.
| Game | You guess | Difficulty | Archive | Streaks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guess The Date | Exact day, month and year | Hard | 100+ puzzles | Yes |
| Yeardle | The year of an event | Easy to Medium | Limited | Yes |
| Histordle | A historical year from clues | Medium | Limited | Yes |
| Whendle | The year between 1900 and now | Medium | No | iOS app only |
| Histodle | Letters of a historical word | Easy to Medium | Limited | Yes |
| Datele | A date from the previous year | Medium | Limited | Yes |
| Daydle | The year of a "this day in history" event | Easy to Medium | Daily archive | Yes |
Format: Exact day, month and year · Difficulty: Hard
Guess The Date is the most demanding game in this lineup. Instead of guessing the year or matching a word, you have to nail the precise calendar date — day, month, and year — of a real historical event.
You start with a single clue and can reveal up to five hints, with each hint costing points. There are easy and hard modes, plus a full archive of every previous puzzle so you can play back through anything you missed. Accounts are optional but unlock streaks, achievements, and friend challenges.
History fans who want a puzzle that genuinely takes a few minutes of thinking, and who enjoy the satisfaction of pinpointing an exact date.
You only have thirty seconds and want a quick win.
Format: The year of an event · Difficulty: Easy to Medium
Yeardle is the most well-known of the year-guessing games. You're given three random events that all happened in the same year and have eight progressive guesses to find the exact year.
Each guess returns a directional hint (earlier or later), so it plays a bit like Wordle's yellow/green feedback. It's approachable, fast, and a great starting point if you're new to history-themed dailies.
New players, anyone who finds full-date guessing too punishing, and people who like a quick lunchtime game.
You want to revisit old puzzles or you find single-year guessing too forgiving.
Format: A historical year from clues · Difficulty: Medium
Histordle is the parent brand behind Yeardle and a few other history-themed dailies. The core game gives you a year and asks you to guess what happened, with feedback similar to Wordle's tile colours.
It's polished, has a clean interface, and the question variety is good. It's less about precision and more about general historical knowledge.
People who enjoy general-knowledge trivia rather than calendar precision.
You want a single deep puzzle rather than a quick trivia round.
Format: The year between 1900 and now · Difficulty: Medium
Whendle picks a year between 1900 and the current year and reveals five events from that year, starting with the most obscure and ending with the most famous. You guess as the events appear — getting the right year early earns more points.
It's available as a free iOS app, which makes it the best of the bunch for offline play. The downside: there's no public archive and the year range is narrower than the rest.
iOS users who want to play on commutes or planes without a connection.
You're on Android, on the web, or you want puzzles older than 1900.
Format: Letters of a historical word · Difficulty: Easy to Medium
Histodle is Wordle reskinned for history. You guess a five- or six-letter word that's tied to a historical figure, place, or event. Standard Wordle feedback applies — green, yellow, grey.
It's the closest game on this list to "Wordle but for history nerds" and rewards a vocabulary of historical terms more than calendar memory.
Wordle veterans who want the same mechanic with a history skin.
You want to actually guess dates, not letters.
Format: A date from the previous year · Difficulty: Medium
Datele uses Wordle-style mechanics but for dates. You have six tries to guess a date from the past year, with each guess returning Wordle-style colour feedback for day, month, and year.
The narrow time range makes it a tighter, more solvable puzzle than Yeardle's open-ended approach.
Players who want Wordle's exact mechanics but with dates as the answer.
You want pre-2000s history or a deeper hint system.
Format: The year of a "this day in history" event · Difficulty: Easy to Medium
Daydle picks an event that happened on the current calendar day in history and asks you to guess the year. The "this day" framing makes it a nice ritual to pair with a morning coffee.
It's lighter than Guess The Date, but the daily date connection gives it a flavour the others don't have.
Players who like the "this day in history" angle and want a low-pressure daily.
You want to guess full dates rather than just years.