About Animaldle

Animaldle is a daily animal guessing game in the spirit of Wordle and Worldle. Each day there is one mystery animal, and you identify it from clues about its class, diet, habitat, continent, weight, lifespan and conservation status.

Real data, real photos — no AI slop

Every animal is shown with a real photograph and real, sourced data. We do not use AI-generated images or AI-written filler. Each fact is assembled from open scientific datasets and cross-checked — Wikidata, the IUCN Red List, AnAge (longevity), PanTHERIA (mammals), EltonTraits (birds) and GBIF (range). Photos come from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons or public-domain licences, and each one is credited to its author on the animal's page.

How we localise — carefully, not machine-translated

Animaldle is available in several languages, and we treat localisation as a data problem, not a translation shortcut. Animal names are taken from authoritative multilingual databases — each species' established common name from Wikidata and the localised Wikipedia. Where a species had no established common name in a language, we did not invent one or literally translate the English: we either sourced the genuine vernacular name from reference works or kept the scientific name. Grammar is handled natively for each language — correct gendered articles and agreement (German der/die/das, Spanish un ave carnívora), local number formatting (1.8 m → 1,8 m), and language-specific typography — instead of running text through a translation engine.

Accuracy & corrections

We aim for facts that are correct and current. If you spot an error — a wrong figure, a mis-named animal, or a localisation slip — please let us know and we will fix it. Keeping the data trustworthy is the whole point of the project.