PoopGuessr
About PoopGuessr
Read the droppings, name the animal
PoopGuessr is a daily game about one of the oldest tracking skills there is: reading animal droppings. Every day you get a single photo of real wild scat and six guesses to work out which animal left it — the same puzzle a naturalist faces on a forest trail, boiled down to a game you can play in a minute.
It is based on the beloved poop-guessing segment from the Swedish TV show Myror i brallan.
How to play
Study the photo, type an animal, and each guess lights up a row of clue cells comparing your animal to the mystery one: class, diet, habitat, region, and typical adult size. Green means a match, yellow a partial overlap, red no match, with up and down arrows showing whether the mystery animal is heavier or lighter than your guess.
Zoom into the photo to check the size, shape, and contents of the droppings, then narrow it down before your guesses run out. The answer deck is stable, so every past day stays playable from the archive.
What you can learn
Droppings are one of the most reliable signs an animal leaves behind, and the details give it away. Size and shape separate a moose from a roe deer; twisted, tapered scat full of fur and berry seeds points to a fox; fish bones in a spraint on a riverside rock mean otter; and the wombat is the only animal on Earth that produces cube-shaped droppings.
The field guide walks through how to identify the signs of the puzzle animals, from pellet shape to the latrines and scent-marks each species leaves.
Where the photos come from
Each puzzle uses one reviewed, open-license photo — mostly from Wikimedia Commons, plus approved photos submitted by players. The source, author, and licence for every image are kept on the credits page and shown after each round, so the caption never spoils the answer. The animal facts behind the clues are hand-curated for the game.
What it is not
PoopGuessr is a game first, not a scientific identification service. Field signs vary by season, diet, age, and location, so use it as a fun way to get better at spotting field signs rather than as a regional wildlife guide.