Smashdle: Classic, Final Smash, Kirby, Emoji and Silhouette modes, and how to guess a Smash fighter from its attributes

The Classic columns

The roster list built into the game's code has 86 entries, including the three Mii Fighters and all seven Echo Fighters. The help screen defines the seven columns: Gender (Male, Female, Other, Selectable), Species (a character may have several), Universe (the licence the character comes from), Weight (knockback resistance in SSBU, default form), First appearance (the first Smash game where the character was playable), Platform of origin and Origin date (the year the character first appeared in its own universe). Classic also unlocks two clues: the name of the answer's Final Smash after 6 guesses and a zoomed silhouette after 9, per the game's code.

The colours follow the help screen too: green means an exact match, orange a partial match — on the multi-value columns, Species, Universe and Platform of origin, it means some values are shared — and red means no overlap. Weight and Origin date are numbers, so a non-matching cell also carries an arrow saying whether the answer's value is above or below your guess. There is no fighter-number column; the Ultimate fighter numbers play no part in Classic.

An opener for the Ultimate roster

The First appearance column has only five values, and the roster splits across them unevenly. A useful opener lands in a middle group on that column while sitting near the middle of the Weight (median 95) and Origin date (median 1996) ranges, so that both arrows say something. Counts from the game's roster data:

• SSB 64 — 12 entries: the original fighters, Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, Samus, Yoshi, Kirby, Fox, Pikachu, Luigi, Ness, Captain Falcon and Jigglypuff.
• SSB Melee — 14 entries.
• SSB Brawl — 16 entries.
• SSB 3DS/Wii U — 21 entries, including the three Mii Fighters.
• SSB Ultimate — 23 entries, the largest group, which includes Echo Fighters such as Daisy, Chrom and Dark Samus as well as the downloadable fighters.

Emoji, Final Smash and Kirby

Emoji: "Try to guess which character corresponds to the sequence of emojis. Each guess reveals a new one!" The help adds that everyone sees the same emojis and that all of them are shown after you win.

Final Smash: the menu describes it as "Guess with a Smash animation", and the help says you identify the character from the Final Smash — the move triggered after breaking the Smash Ball. A clue unlocks after a few tries. Because its answer comes from a separate endpoint, HintSheet does not list it.

Kirby: "guess who did Kirby swallow using his B spell"; after 6 tries a clue shows the copied B move in action. Silhouette ("Guess with a shadow") zooms out a little with each try; its answer is in the public cache, but our fetcher does not record it.

Kirby mode, and what the game shows you

What can be said about the Kirby mode from the game itself and from our records:

• The question is fixed: "Who did Kirby swallow?" The image shows Kirby after copying a fighter's neutral special, and the clue that unlocks after a few misses shows that copied B move in action.
• Our window: in the 41 Kirby puzzles recorded between 2 September and 11 October 2026 (#1092–#1132), no fighter appeared twice, and the mode's answer on a given puzzle number never matched that day's Classic or Emoji answer.
• What is not known: the game does not publish how it picks the day's fighter, so this page makes no claim about which fighters are easy or hard to recognise.

In Kirby mode, guess who did Kirby swallow using his B spell. After a few tries, you unlock a clue to see his new B spell in action.— Smashdle help screen, smashdle.net (read 11 October 2026)

Regions and reset

Smashdle's Time zone setting offers Europe (midnight at UTC+2) and America (midnight at UTC−6). Both play the same numbered sequence: across our 40 daily files (2 September – 11 October 2026), every puzzle number seen in both regions had the same fighter in all three recorded modes. On 24 dates both regions showed the same number when our fetcher last ran; on the other 16 America was one ahead, because its midnight (06:00 UTC) comes before Europe's next one (22:00 UTC). Pokedle and LoLdle come from the same developer and use the same feedback rules.

Echo fighters and the Classic column trap

SmashWiki lists Ultimate's Echo Fighters — Lucina (of Marth), Dark Pit (Pit), Daisy (Peach), Richter (Simon), Chrom (Roy), Dark Samus (Samus) and Ken (Ryu) — and all seven are separate entries in Smashdle's roster, each sharing its base fighter's Universe and Weight. The differences show elsewhere: Daisy is Ultimate, Game Boy, 1989 against Peach's Melee, NES, 1985; Ken and Ryu share platform (Arcade) and origin date (1987) and differ only on First appearance. A green Universe-and-Weight pair with reds on the other columns is the signal to try the other half of an Echo pair.

Smashdle since launch

The patch notes shown in the client record data corrections from 31 October 2023 onward: Little Mac's First appearance changed from Brawl to 3DS/Wii U, Ridley's from Brawl to Ultimate, Shulk's species became Human (formerly Homs), Sonic's origin date became 1991, and in June 2025 Wario and Yoshi were given both the Mario and their own universe. A remembered cell can therefore differ from today's feedback. Europe was on #1131 on 11 October 2026, which — if the count has run one puzzle per day without gaps — puts #1 in early September 2023; that is arithmetic, not a published launch date.

A Classic game, narrated

A worked example using the game's roster values, with the Europe Classic answer for #1131 (11 October 2026), Villager — Selectable gender, Human, Animal Crossing, weight 92, first playable in SSB 3DS/Wii U, platform of origin Nintendo 64, origin date 2001. Guess 1: Mario (Male, Human, Mario, 98, SSB 64, Arcade, 1981). Gender red, Species green, Universe red, Weight red with a down arrow, First appearance red, Platform red, Origin date red with an up arrow.

Filtering the 86-entry roster for every fighter that would produce exactly that row leaves six: Mii Brawler, Sheik, Steve, Villager, Wii Fit Trainer and Zelda. Guess 2: Inkling (Selectable, Inkling, Splatoon, 94, SSB Ultimate, Wii U, 2015). Gender green, Species red, Universe red, Weight red with a down arrow, First appearance red, Platform red, Origin date red with a down arrow.

Only Villager fits both rows, so the third guess wins. Inkling did not need to be a candidate; it was chosen because its Selectable gender and later origin date split the six. On America's #1132, Yoshi, a Mario guess alone returns a row that only Yoshi matches.

The weight column, explained

Weight is Ultimate's knockback-resistance value, with an arrow. In the roster data it runs from 62 (Pichu) to 135 (Bowser), half the roster sits between 88 and 104, and there are only 38 distinct values, so exact ties are common — Echo pairs always tie. The arrow narrows fast at the extremes and slowly in the crowded middle.

Series (the Universe column), by how many fighters each holds

A green on Universe is decisive only when the universe is small. Counts from the game's roster data; Wario and Yoshi carry two values (Mario plus their own), so a guess from either can produce an orange.

Emoji mode: what is and isn't known

The help screen states the rules — one new emoji per guess, the same emojis for everyone, all of them shown once you win — and nothing about how the emojis are chosen, so this page does not describe a house style. In our window, 41 Emoji puzzles (#1092–#1132) had 41 different answers; the mode's answer never coincided with that puzzle number's Classic or Kirby answer. A wrong guess costs nothing but a turn and buys another emoji, which makes broad, franchise-level guesses a reasonable way to spend early tries.

Saturday versus weekday boards

Do weekend puzzles lean toward newer fighters? Of the Europe Classic answers in our 40 files, 2 of 12 weekend answers and 10 of 28 weekday answers were Ultimate-debut fighters — no weekend skew, and too small a sample to show a pattern. The game does not say how it chooses answers.

Terms used on this page

Terms as used on this site.

• First appearance — the first Smash game in which the character was playable; five values, no arrow.
• Echo Fighter — a fighter based on another (Lucina on Marth); in Smashdle they are separate entries sharing Universe and Weight with their base.
• Weight — Ultimate's knockback-resistance value; an ordered column with an arrow.
• Origin date — the year the character first appeared in its own series; the other arrow column.
• Region — the Europe/America time-zone setting; both play the same numbered puzzles at different times.

How the Species column splits the roster

Species has 30 values in the roster data and 21 entries carry more than one, which is why orange appears on this column so often.

• Human — 52 of 86 entries, often alongside a second value such as Augmented (Samus, Cloud, Snake, Lucina), Demon (Ganondorf, Kazuya), God (Byleth) or Dragon (Corrin). A red on Human removes most of the roster.
• Pokémon — 8 entries, counting Pokémon Trainer, whose species is Human and Pokémon.
• Two-entry values — Koopa, Angel, Kong, Dog, Demon, Robot, God and Unknown each appear twice; Bird appears four times (Banjo & Kazooie and Duck Hunt combine it with Bear and Dog).
• One-entry values — Plant (Piranha Plant), Kirby, Yoshi, Inkling, Hedgehog, Wolf, Metroid and a dozen more. A green on one of these is the answer.

Frequently asked questions

Recent Smashdle answers

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