u/GreatOldOne521

Game Title: Guess the Sub

Playable Link: https://guessthesub.com

Platform: Web (works on desktop and mobile)

Description:

Guess the Sub is a daily puzzle game in the Wordle format. Each day you see the title of a real Reddit post and have 6 guesses to name the subreddit it came from.

After each wrong guess, a new hint reveals in sequence: post body preview, subscriber count range, creation year, topic category, and finally the subreddit's description. The hints go from "content-based reasoning" to "metadata-based giveaways" so early guesses reward players who know Reddit culture and later hints act as safety nets.

The autocomplete supports roughly 760 popular SFW subreddits but only about 160 of those are in the actual answer pool. That means the hints genuinely matter and you can't just brute-force the list.

Each puzzle is generated from real top/hot Reddit posts via the public API, then hand-reviewed before publishing to filter out megathreads, posts that leak the answer in the title, and content too distressing for a casual game.

Streaks and stats are stored in localStorage. Results can be shared as an emoji grid (Wordle-style red/green/gray squares).

Free to Play Status: [x] Free to play

Involvement: Solo developer. I designed the game, built the frontend (React + Vite + Tailwind), wrote the puzzle generator (Node script that pulls from Reddit's public API), set up the stats backend (Netlify Functions), curated the subreddit pool, and review every puzzle before it ships.

Built Guess the Sub: each day you see a real Reddit post and have 6 guesses to name the subreddit it came from. Wrong guesses reveal hints in sequence (post body, subscriber count, creation year, topic, description).

Stack: Vite + React on the front, Netlify Functions for community stats, no real backend. Puzzles are pre-generated by a Node script that pulls posts from Reddit's public API and saves them as static JSON.

The bulk of the actual engineering went into making the puzzle generator avoid bad puzzles. "Title can't contain the answer sub" sounds simple until "Marina del Rey" leaks r/MovingToLosAngeles. "No NSFW" is easy. "No emotionally distressing content" is genuinely hard to encode. Each filter pass surfaced a new edge case.

Live: https://guessthesub.com

Free, no signup, takes a minute. Open to feedback on hint difficulty.

Hey r/WebGames. Made this over the last few days. Daily format, like Wordle but you guess subreddits instead of words.

Each day shows the title of a real Reddit post. You have 6 guesses to name the subreddit. Wrong guesses reveal hints in order: post body, subscriber count, creation year, topic category, description.

No signup, no ads, no IAP. Mobile works fine. Autocomplete pulls from ~760 popular subs but only ~160 are in the actual puzzle pool, so the hints genuinely matter.

Open to feedback on hint difficulty and the curated sub list.