How to play Deadlockle

Type any Deadlock hero into the search box. The grid lights up with seven attribute tiles per guess: role, gun, damage, nature, gender, HP, move speed. Green means a match, amber means close (numerical within range), red means off. Use the comparisons to triangulate the daily hero.

Strategy: open with a hero who covers mid-range stats. Paradox, Vyper, or Pocket give wide tile coverage on the first guess. Don't lock onto a single hero type until you've also narrowed nature and damage style; those three together usually pin the answer within four guesses.

A heavily blurred ability icon appears. Each wrong guess reveals more of the icon. All four signature abilities are in the pool for every hero, so a fire-themed icon could be Infernus's Napalm or one of Seven's offensive abilities. Narrow on shape and composition, not just color.

A blurred shop item icon appears. Each wrong guess sharpens it. The pool covers the full Deadlock item shop. Hard mode rotates the icon by a deterministic 90°, 180°, or 270° based on the daily seed, useful when normal mode feels too silhouette-readable.

A tight crop of a hero's portrait appears: eyes, an earring, a collar fragment. Each wrong guess pulls the camera back, revealing more of the face. Most players solve it in 2–4 guesses if they recognize Deadlock's distinctive 1930s-NYC character design.

A pre-match exchange between two heroes, with each speaker guessed in their own combobox. Dialogue reveals one line per guess, and after a few misses the actual voice clip unlocks. You hear the heroes talking, which is usually enough to clinch the answer. Once you solve it, every line's voice clip becomes playable so you can hear the full conversation back.