How the Liesofpdle daily puzzle works

Five puzzles, one per mode

Each mode has its own daily answer: a boss, a weapon, a Legion Arm, an amulet and a quote. The five draws are independent. Each mode follows its own sequence, so knowing today's boss tells you nothing about today's weapon, or about tomorrow's boss.

Everyone plays the same puzzles on the same day, wherever they live. That is what makes comparing scores with friends meaningful: you all faced exactly the same challenge.

When the puzzle changes

The day changes at 00:00 UTC, not at midnight in your own time zone. The help screen simply says “at midnight”; it means midnight UTC, and the countdown shown after a win runs to that exact moment. Depending on where you live, the new puzzles arrive at these local times:

A single global day keeps the puzzle identical for everyone. If each player switched at their own midnight, people in Asia would already be sharing tomorrow's answer while players in the Americas were still working on today's.

Your streak follows the same UTC calendar. To keep it alive, you need to solve each mode's puzzle before 00:00 UTC, which falls in the afternoon or evening for players in the Americas. A game still unfinished at that moment cannot be completed afterwards, and a page left open across the switch should be reloaded to load the new puzzle.

How the answer is picked

The daily answer is computed on the server, never in your browser. The server derives it from the date and a secret key that only it knows, with a separate sequence for each mode. The same date always gives the same answer, so every visitor sees the same puzzle without the site having to store a calendar.

The secret key is what makes the sequence unpredictable. Without it, anyone who knew the method could work out the answers for the coming days. With it, the only way to learn today's boss is to find it.

The draw treats every candidate equally. In Quotedle, the character is drawn first and one of their lines second, so each of the 16 characters has the same chance, however many lines they have. The draw also has no memory: it does not avoid recent answers, so an answer can come back after a few days, or even two days in a row. With 29 bosses, the same boss returns the next day about once a month on average. With only 10 Legion Arms, it happens roughly one day in ten.

Why the answer never reaches your browser

When you submit a guess in Daily mode, the name goes to the server, which compares it with the hidden answer and sends back only the verdict: the color of each cell, the direction of each arrow, or a simple right or wrong. The answer is not part of the page, so there is nothing to find by inspecting it. It only appears once you have guessed it.

The icon modes needed extra care. If the image of the day were served under its own file name, the address alone would give the answer away. Weapondle and Amuldle therefore load the daily icon through a neutral address that says nothing about the item. For the same reason, their suggestion list shows names without thumbnails; otherwise you could simply compare the icon with each picture.

Practice mode

Practice works differently because nothing is at stake. In the Boss and Legion Arm modes, your browser picks a random answer and checks your guesses itself, so a practice round needs no server once the page has loaded. In Weapondle, Amuldle and Quotedle, the server draws the random answer and checks your guesses against it. Either way, practice wins never count toward your statistics, and you can play as many rounds as you like.

What stays on your device

Liesofpdle has no accounts. What it remembers about your games lives in your browser:

• Your daily progress: the guesses you made today in each mode, so closing the tab does not lose your game. Each mode and each day is saved separately.
• Your statistics: streak, best streak and number of daily puzzles solved, kept per mode.
• Your language choice, recorded when you switch languages.

None of this syncs between devices, and clearing your browser's site data erases it. The privacy policy gives the full details.

Audience measurement and ads

To know which modes people play, the site uses Umami, an audience measurement tool that works without cookies and does not identify visitors. Besides page views, it records two anonymous events: a solved puzzle, with the mode and the number of tries, and a click on the Share button. The site also shows ads served by Google AdSense; Google and its partners may use cookies for them, as the privacy policy explains.

In short

• One answer per mode per day, the same for every player.
• New puzzles at 00:00 UTC.
• The answer is computed and checked on the server with a secret key, so it cannot be read from the page.
• Practice is unlimited and leaves your statistics untouched.
• Your progress and statistics stay in your browser.

For the rules of each mode, see how to play; for common questions, the FAQ. And if you wonder where daily puzzles come from, read a short history of -dle games.