Built a daily Reddit puzzle: guess which subreddit a post came from

Each day you see the title of a real Reddit post. You have 6 guesses to name the subreddit it came from. After each wrong guess a new hint reveals: post body preview, subscriber count, creation year, topic category, then the sub's description.

Built this because every Wordle spinoff felt like the same game with different letters. This one rewards actually knowing Reddit culture.

Stack is plain Vite + React, deployed on Netlify. Puzzles are pre-generated from Reddit's public API and committed as static JSON files, so the live site never hits Reddit. About 22 days of puzzles ready, planning to stay 2 weeks ahead.

Live: https://guessthesub.com

Open to feedback on:

  • Hint difficulty, especially hint 4 (topic category)
  • The curated subreddit list, around 160 subs right now
  • Subs you think would make great or terrible puzzles

Posted May 7, 2026, 12:36 PM UTC

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