Poeltl
Game · 2022 · Notable
An NBA guessing game tested in Dunktown’s Discord before its public Twitter launch.
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How it worksNumbers
- Cumulative unique visitors
- 240K
- Launch–Feb 26, 2022 · Creator claim · Self-reported · The Sporting News
- Seed to peak
- 3 days
- Feb 25 ’22 to Feb 28 ’22
- Platforms
- 4
- Started on X
- Origin
- Seeded
- Gaming
How it spread
Trace the originAfter 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.
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February 2022
Gabe Danon seed · Feb 25 ’22
Gabe Danon tweeted the link to Poeltl, a daily NBA player guessing game, to his 328 followers.[2][1]
328 followersOpen the first post ↗Uproxx / Dime press · Feb 25 ’22
Dime reported there was now an NBA version of Wordle called Poeltl.[3]
Pounding The Rock press · Feb 25 ’22
SB Nation's Pounding The Rock wrote that Jakob Poeltl had become an NBA trivia game.[4]
Changelogupdated Oct 16 ’26
- Revised 1 event
- Added: 11 events, 12 sources · Score 52
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