Mythguess

Quick facts

How the daily puzzle works

Every player worldwide gets the same puzzle each day, drawn from a fixed schedule keyed to the IST calendar. Difficulty rotates across the week: Monday and Tuesday are easier figures, Wednesday and Thursday step up to medium, Friday and Saturday are the hardest, and Sunday returns to medium. Clues reveal hardest first (clue 1) to easiest (clue 5), so the round rewards both broad knowledge and elimination.

You have up to 5 attempts. The autocomplete only accepts characters that exist in the database, so typos and unknown names cost nothing - the input shakes and you keep your slot. Once you submit a real character name that does not match the target, the next clue reveals automatically. A one-shot Hint button reveals the broad tradition (Ramayana, Mahabharata, Puranic, Vedic, Regional, Historical, or Shakta) for the cost of one orange slot in your share grid.

Streak rules follow the Wordle pattern: a loss or a skipped day resets your current streak to zero, while your longest streak is preserved as a personal best. Practice mode and Archive replays do not affect streak, and both expose Skip clue and Reveal answer buttons since neither has streak stakes - use them to learn the character pool faster.

About the character pool

The 250-character pool is split across three difficulty tiers (31 easy, 86 medium, 133 hard) and seven hint categories. Ramayana figures include the Ikshvaku dynasty, the vanara army, the Lankan court, Rama's brothers (Bharata, Shatrughna), the Janaka family (Mandavi, Shrutakirti), and the lesser-known Lankan generals (Khara, Dushana, Atikaya, Prahasta, Sumali). Mahabharata coverage spans the full Kuru cast plus key Yadavas, Naga princesses (Ulupi, Iravan), and lesser-known sages (Uttanka, Markandeya). The Puranic block draws from the Bhagavata, Vishnu, Shiva, and Skanda Puranas plus the Devi Mahatmya, with avatars (Matsya, Kurma, Varaha, Narasimha, Vamana, Parashurama, Kalki), Saptarishi sages (Vasishtha, Vishwamitra, Atri, Kashyapa, Bhrigu, Marichi, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu, Angiras), and Upanishadic philosophers (Yajnavalkya, Maitreyi, Gargi Vachaknavi, Uddalaka Aruni, Ashtavakra).

Vedic figures cover the Rig Vedic core - Indra, Agni, Varuna, Surya, Yama, Brahma - plus the Adityas, Vasus, Rudras, and Rigvedic dawn deities (Ushas, Aditi, Saranyu). The Shakta category covers nine of the ten Mahavidyas (Kali in the base set, plus Tara, Tripura Sundari, Bhuvaneshvari, Bhairavi, Chinnamasta, Dhumavati, Bagalamukhi, Matangi - the tenth, Kamala, ships in a later batch), the seven Saptamatrikas (Brahmani, Vaishnavi, Maheshwari, Indrani, Varahi, Kaumari, Chamunda), eight Navadurga forms (Shailaputri, Brahmacharini, Chandraghanta, Kushmanda, Skandamata, Kalaratri, Mahagauri, Siddhidatri - Katyayani resolves via Durga's main entry), seven Ashtalakshmi forms (Adi, Dhana, Dhanya, Gaja, Santana, Veera, Vijaya), and the Tridevi (Durga, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Parvati) plus Sati and Annapurna. Regional coverage represents Tamil Nadu (Murugan, Andal, Kannappa, Mariamman, Iravan), Maharashtra (Vithoba), Kerala (Ayyappa), Bengal (Manasa), Karnataka (Chamundeshwari, Renuka), Manipur (Chitrangada), and Rajasthan (Meera Bai). The Historical category at the 250-character milestone is intentionally small - Thiruvalluvar (Tamil ethical poet) and Adi Shankaracharya (Advaita Vedanta); a Bhakti-era saints expansion is queued for a future batch.

Villains and adversaries are included and framed neutrally - Ravana, Duryodhana, Shakuni, Mahishasura, Hiranyakashipu, Kamsa, Putana, Surpanakha, and others. Where a figure traditionally classified as an adversary also has an active worship tradition (Mahishasura among some Adivasi communities, Barbarika at Khatu Shyam, Mayasura in Tantric contexts), the post-game profile acknowledges it. Curator method: primary- source citations, neutral educational tone, no devotional framing in clues.

Sources

Approximate scholarly dating shown for each text. Oral and regional traditions predate written compilation; ranges reflect the academic consensus where one exists, and known scholarly debate where it does not. For authoritative readings, consult primary sources or a qualified scholar.

• Valmiki, Ramayana - composed ~5th to 4th century BCE (oldest core layers)
• Vyasa, Mahabharata - composed ~400 BCE to 400 CE (long compilation window)
• Rig Veda - oldest hymns ~1500 to 1200 BCE (oral); written compilation later
• Bhagavata Purana - prevailing scholarly consensus ~9th to 10th century CE; some scholars argue for an earlier Gupta-era core (4th to 7th century)
• Vishnu Purana - ~3rd to 5th century CE
• Shiva Purana - ~10th to 11th century CE
• Skanda Purana - ~6th to 9th century CE; the largest of the Mahapuranas
• Devi Mahatmya (within Markandeya Purana) - ~5th to 6th century CE
• Devi Bhagavata Purana - prevailing scholarly consensus ~6th to 14th century CE; primary source for Mahavidya and Devi narratives
• Lalita Sahasranama (within Brahmanda Purana) - ~6th to 10th century CE; thousand names of Tripura Sundari
• Tripura Rahasya - ~17th century CE; Sri Vidya Tantra dialogue text
• Yajurveda, Samaveda, Atharvaveda, principal Upanishads - ~1500 to 500 BCE (oral); written compilation later
• Sangam literature (Tamil) - ~3rd century BCE to 3rd century CE; sources for early Murugan and Mariamman traditions
• Tulsidas, Ramcharitmanas - 1574 CE; popular vernacular Ramayana retelling
• Andal, Thiruppavai + Nachiyar Thirumozhi - ~9th century CE; Tamil Vaishnava devotional poetry
• Bengali Mangalkavyas - ~13th century CE onward; sources for Manasa and Chandi narratives
• Varkari abhangs by Dnyaneshwar, Namdev, Tukaram - ~13th to 17th century CE; Vithoba devotional poetry
• Thiruvalluvar, Tirukkural - dating contested (~3rd century BCE to 5th century CE); Tamil tradition uses 31 BCE
• Adi Shankaracharya - 8th century CE; commentaries on Upanishads, Brahma Sutras, Bhagavad Gita