Dotadle answers archive

October 2026 (19)

September 2026 (29)

Start with the date or the number

Dates link to each day's full solution on the month page. The # column is the Europe puzzle number, and the summary column lists all eight answers. Dotadle resets at 00:00 UTC; every entry is stamped with a publish time of 00:00 UTC on its date, so new rows appear at the reset.

To see whether a hero has answered before, search the page for the name. Each date it answered shows up in the summary column with the mode beside it. With 51 of the 101 heroes appearing more than once, that search often turns up something.

Regions: the 24-and-16 split

On 24 of the 40 dates both regions showed the same puzzle number and the same four heroes. On 16, the America puzzle was one number ahead. No puzzle number appears with two different answer sets, so search for the number you played. #1000, #1023, #1030 and #1032 are America-only in this window; #992 is Europe-only.

From the list: the October 5 row shows #1026 for both regions, with Chaos Knight (Classic), Riki (Ability), Storm Spirit (Quote) and Dark Seer (Loading Screen). On October 6, Europe repeats #1026 while America shows #1027: Keeper of the Light, Brewmaster, Earth Spirit and Bounty Hunter. On October 7, Europe reaches #1027 and America #1028. Europe's number stood still on consecutive dates three times and skipped one number three times in the window.

164 answers across four modes

Each mode used 41 different heroes. The last column counts heroes that also answered a different mode somewhere in the window.

One hundred and one heroes

Of the 101 heroes, 50 appeared once, 39 twice and 12 three times. None reached all four modes. The guide puts the full roster at 126 heroes, so six weeks of answers touched most of it. The 164 slots produced only 101 names because 51 heroes answered more than once.

The overlap across modes was close to even. Classic, Quote and Loading Screen each had 29 answers that also appeared in some other mode; Ability had 27. No single mode stood apart as the one that recycles the others' heroes.

Twelve heroes seen three times

Every hero with three appearances, ordered by first appearance.

One pattern stands out: all twelve include a Loading Screen appearance, and ten of them include a Classic one. Ability and Quote each figure in seven. Loading Screen was also the last of the three appearances for five of the twelve.

Loading Screen and Classic overlap most

Shared heroes for each pair of modes:

Classic and Ability shared the fewest. In practice, a hero you saw recently as a Loading Screen answer is a better candidate for a Classic day than one you saw as an Ability answer, though with 41 puzzles that's a lean, not a pattern to bet a streak on.

• Classic and Loading Screen: 18
• Ability and Quote: 13
• Classic and Quote: 12
• Ability and Loading Screen: 12
• Quote and Loading Screen: 11
• Classic and Ability: 9

Quickest returns

There were 63 returns in total, with a median gap of 10 puzzles and a longest gap of 37. Ten came within three puzzles and 19 within seven. Four heroes came back on the very next puzzle: Shadow Shaman (Loading Screen #994, Classic #995), Abaddon (Loading Screen #1003, Ability #1004), Lifestealer (Quote #1004, Loading Screen #1005) and Earth Spirit (Quote #1027, Ability #1028).

Earth Spirit is the neatest example from the list: the Quote answer on #1027 and the Ability answer on #1028. Because America ran a number ahead that week, an America player met him on October 6 and 7, while a Europe player saw the same two puzzles on October 7 and 8. The number, not the date, is what keeps that straight.

No hero twice in one mode

Within the 41 puzzles, no mode repeated a hero. That held for all four modes. It's an observation from six weeks of entries, not a rule Dotadle states, but it's a reasonable tiebreaker: between two candidates, the one that answered the same mode last week is the weaker guess.

Classic drills from old answers

Classic colors seven columns: gender, species, position(s), attribute, range type, complexity and release year, with an arrow on release year. Primary attribute splits the roster into four near-equal parts; position(s) are multi-valued and often orange. Take a past Classic answer and run your opener against it. The useful questions are whether attribute and range type would have come back green, and whether the year arrow told you old or new. Do that across the 41 Classic answers in the list and your opener's weak spots show up fast. The Dotadle guide explains the opener being tested.

A weekly version: take the seven most recent Classic answers, predict your opener's feedback on attribute, range type and release year for each, and see how many would have been narrowed to a short list by your second guess. Classic didn't repeat a hero in these 41 puzzles, so this trains the method rather than the memory.

Ability and Quote: learn the kit

The recognition modes reward familiarity. Ability shows an icon and reveals the ability's name after a miss; Quote is a voice line; Loading Screen crops a loading-screen artwork that widens with each miss. Because Ability and Quote shared 13 heroes in this window, reading a hero's Ability answer next to their Quote answer ties the icon to the voice.

Ability, because a miss reveals the ability name and you learn the kit; the archive's Ability answers are a good study list.— HintSheet's Dotadle guide, on the best mode for learning heroes

Bounty Hunter, start to finish

The first Europe puzzle in the archive, #992, had Bounty Hunter as its Classic answer, the game narrated in the Dotadle guide. He came back as the Ability answer on #1006 and the Loading Screen answer on #1027. Following one hero across modes like this shows how much of the archive is the same names in new clothes.

First twenty puzzles against the last twenty-one

Of the 84 answer slots in #1012 to #1032, 28 went to heroes that had already answered something in #992 to #1011. That's a third of the later slots, a lower share than the archive shows for LoLdle or Narutodle, so in Dotadle a recently seen hero is a possibility, not a favorite.

Not stored here

The entries record the hero for each mode and region, the puzzle number and the publish time. They don't record the Classic attribute row or guess counts, so anything about difficulty comes from the guide, not from this list. Today's heroes are on Dotadle answers today.

The list grows by one row a day. Forty dates holding 41 puzzle numbers is not a gap or a duplicate in the data, just the regional offset: some numbers appear only on the America side, and the Europe number occasionally sits on two dates.