Plane-dle
No picture at all, just five columns and six guesses
Plane-dle has no image. You get six guesses at one aircraft type out of 393, and everything you learn comes from how your previous guesses scored against five columns.
Attributes only, by decision
The other guessing games here lean on a picture or a drawn shape. This one deliberately does not: it shipped attribute-first, with iconic silhouettes left as a later piece of work rather than bolted on.
That changes how the game plays. Your opening guess is a probe rather than an attempt, and the useful opener is often an aircraft you are confident is wrong but which sits in a helpful part of the space: a 1930s piston airliner, or a modern twin, just to see which way the arrows point.
What the columns tell you
Manufacturer, Origin and Role are match-or-miss, and the roles include airliner, fighter, bomber, transport, helicopter, trainer, reconnaissance and drone, so a role match alone can cut the field hard.
First flight is a decade, with an arrow pointing toward the answer. Number built is the spotter's column: an arrow again, over a range that runs from a single airframe to tens of thousands. Aircraft with no dependable production figure are shown as unknown instead of a made-up number.
Where the data comes from, and what was left out
The dataset is Wikidata, CC0 1.0. Candidate columns had to be populated across most of the pool to ship, and the ones that failed were dropped rather than padded with guesses. Engine count and production status both fell short and were left out of the grid.
The reveal names the aircraft and shows an English Wikipedia summary excerpt under CC BY-SA 4.0 with a link to the article. The five columns in your finished grid are the key facts, so the card is background rather than a second table.
After the puzzle
Finishing unlocks a run of bonus questions, and the number varies by day depending on what the data supports: which of two aircraft flew first, which one comes from a named country, which one fills a named role, which of two has the wider wingspan, more engines, or the longer range, and which aircraft a named designer drew.
The designer and country questions only appear when the underlying facts line up, which is why the set is a different length each day.
Questions
Is it the same puzzle for everyone?
Yes. One aircraft a day out of the 393, the same for every player, rolling over at midnight UTC.
Do I need an account?
No. Nothing is stored server-side. Your streak and stats live in your browser's local storage.
Why is there no photo or silhouette?
Version one was built attribute-first, and an aircraft silhouette set is recorded as a later slice rather than something rushed in. In the meantime the guessing is pure deduction from the columns.