Fedle is a daily word guessing game played directly on the Fediverse. Follow the bot from any Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, or GoToSocial account. Every day at 12:00 UTC, a new word is posted to followers. Guess it in 6 attempts by replying via DM.
The bot is a standalone ActivityPub server. It handles federation natively: WebFinger, HTTP Signatures, inbox/outbox, Follow/Accept, and DM delivery.
How to play
- Follow
@Fedle_en@fedle.fedilab.app(English) or@Fedle_fr@fedle.fedilab.app(French) - Every day at 12:00 UTC, the bot posts a new puzzle with the word length and first letter
- Reply via DM with your guess (must match the word length and start with the given letter)
- The bot replies with colored squares: correct position, misplaced, or absent
- You have 6 attempts
Game rules
- Words are 5 to 7 letters long (variable length)
- The first letter is revealed in the daily post
- Guesses must be valid dictionary words
- Duplicate letter handling follows the Sutom algorithm (two-pass: exact matches first, then misplaced)
Key features
- Multi-language: English and French, each with its own bot actor
- Instance leaderboard: instances compete against each other based on average attempts
- Player stats: personal win rate, streaks, average attempts
- Community word suggestions: suggest words via DM, they enter a queue for future games
- Anti-cheat: statistical flagging with a 30-game rolling window
- Web dashboard: leaderboard, game history, player profiles, instance stats
- Public JSON API: 5 endpoints for stats and game data
- Custom emojis: per-letter result display with colored PNGs (correct, misplaced, absent)
- Privacy-friendly: no tracking, no external dependencies at runtime