# Poeltl

> An NBA guessing game tested in Dunktown’s Discord before its public Twitter launch.

- Owner: Gabe Danon (Dunktown); NBPA and Jakob Poeltl from 2024
- Kind: Game
- Sector: Gaming
- Seed date: 2022-02-25
- Peak date: 2022-02-28
- Spread Score: 43 (Notable, provisional), v1.2
- Mechanics: Shareable output, Daily ritual, Newsjacking, Platform jump

## Summary

After playing Worldle, Gabe Danon tested an NBA guessing game in Dunktown’s Discord, which helped name it Poeltl. He tweeted it on February 25; Reddit and sports publishers followed. His reported 240,000 visitors by the next day were cumulative, not daily players.

## Timeline

- 2022-02-25 — Gabe Danon (X) — Gabe Danon tweeted the link to Poeltl, a daily NBA player guessing game, to his 328 followers.
- 2022-02-25 — Uproxx / Dime (Press) — Dime reported there was now an NBA version of Wordle called Poeltl.
- 2022-02-25 — Pounding The Rock (Press) — SB Nation's Pounding The Rock wrote that Jakob Poeltl had become an NBA trivia game.

The full timeline, metrics and sources are on the case page, or via the Pro API (https://howitspread.com/developers).

Canonical URL: https://howitspread.com/cases/poeltl

Cite as: How It Spread (2026). “Poeltl.” Case HIS-00965. Spread Score v1.2: 43/100. Updated 2026-10-15. https://howitspread.com/id/HIS-00965