Angledle Unlimited

The rules in brief

In the daily version of Angledle, a fresh angle appears at 6:00 AM local time, somewhere between 1° and 359°. Unlimited skips the clock - a new angle is ready the instant your last round finishes. Either way, the task is the same: two rays meet at a point and form a shape, and you have six tries to name its exact degree. No fractional answers, no half-degrees.

Each guess returns two pieces of feedback: a temperature hint showing how far off you were, and an arrow pointing toward the real value. That's one round.

What the temperature hints actually mean

The wording is consistent from guess to guess, and it's worth memorizing so you're not re-reading it mid-round.

The arrow is just as direct: ⬆️ means the real angle is larger than your guess, ⬇️ means it's smaller. Combine the word with the arrow to fence off a tight strip of the dial for your next guess.

A sample round

Suppose the answer is 137°. A plausible sequence of guesses:

1. 190° - a weak opener. Returns "Cold ⬆️". The real angle is past 120 somewhere. Useful, barely.
2. 2150° - returns "Warm ⬇️". The window is now roughly 121 through 149.
3. 3135° - a midpoint move. "So close! ⬆️" lights up. Five candidates remain: 136–140.
4. 4137° - a coin-flip pick from the five. It lands on guess 4.

Each guess sliced the surviving range roughly in half. That's the core technique - the 90° opener was the weak link; 180° is more efficient, for reasons covered below.

Reading the shape before you type

A second or two of study beats a quick stab. The familiar references cover the easy cases: 90° looks like an L, 45° is half of that, 60° is a triangle corner. The category that trips up most players is reflex, so it gets the most attention here.

Reflex angles span 181° to 359°, and the trick is that the marked arc sits on the outside of where the eye lands first. The smaller opening between the rays might look like 70°, while the marked angle is the long way around at 290°. Players lose whole rounds to that flip.

Quick fix: subtract the obvious-looking smaller angle from 360. If the narrow opening reads as 50, the marked angle is probably 310 - the rays look almost closed and the arc sweeps the long route around the vertex.

Acute angles are easier: a thin, pizza-slice opening is under 45°. Obtuse sits between "wider than a square corner" and "almost flat," with 135° a useful anchor. A flat line reads as 180° - the easiest case of all.

Opening guesses that actually help

• Open at 180°
  It splits the whole dial into "acute or obtuse" versus "reflex" with a single hint - sharper than 90°, which only halves the non-reflex side.
• Bisect what's left
  After each hint, aim at the middle of the surviving range. Unglamorous, and usually optimal.
• Memorize anchors
  Knowing 30°, 45°, 60°, 120°, 150°, and 270° by sight is enough for a passable first guess in seconds.
• Trust "So close!"
  A 5° window plus an arrow leaves at most five candidates - on guess 4 or 5, that's effectively a free win.

Skill versus luck

Players who finish in 3 or 4 most rounds aren't lucky - they've trained their eye and treat each guess as a question that roughly halves the dial. After a few hundred rounds, the first guess tends to land inside 10° without conscious effort, and bisection takes over from move two onward. That accuracy comes from repetition, which is exactly what Unlimited is for: back-to-back rounds with no daily reset, so you can run the routine as many times as it takes to make it automatic.

Frequently asked questions