Stewadle: The F1 Driver Guessing Game Explained

Searching for "Stewadle"? The game you're looking for is Stewardle (with an "r") — a free daily guessing game for Formula 1 fans where you identify a mystery F1 driver in six attempts or fewer. Each guess reveals colour-coded feedback on the driver's stats, including nationality, team, car number, age, debut year, and race wins.

What Is Stewadle?

Stewadle — properly spelled Stewardle — is a Wordle-inspired browser game built for Formula 1 fans. Each day, the game picks one mystery driver from a database of everyone who has raced in Formula 1 from the 2014 hybrid era onward, and your job is to name that driver within six guesses.

Rather than guessing letter by letter like classic Wordle, Stewardle works like the sports-guessing games Poeltl (NBA) and Footdle (football): you type the name of any F1 driver, and the game compares your guess against the hidden answer across a set of real career statistics. Matching attributes light up, guiding you closer with every attempt. Driver data is powered by live statistics from the Jolpica API, the community-run Formula 1 data service (github.com/ssyyhhrr/stewardle).

The game was created by developer "syhr" (GitHub user ssyyhhrr), who published it as an open-source project built with Express and Node.js. The public demo lives at stewardle.com, and the source code is freely available on GitHub.

One note on the name: plenty of players search for "stewadle" without the second "r". The official name is Stewardle — think "Steward" + "Wordle", a nod to the FIA stewards who officiate F1 races. If you've been typing "stewadle" into Google, you're in the right place: this guide covers the real game.

How to Play Stewadle: The Rules

The rules are straightforward, and anyone who has played Wordle or a player-guessing game will feel at home immediately.

1. Type any F1 driver's name. Each guess must be a real driver who has competed in Formula 1 from the 2014 season onward. An autocomplete list helps you pick from the full driver database.
2. Submit and read the colour feedback. After each guess, the game shows how your driver's attributes compare to the mystery driver's. Matching attributes turn green; non-matching ones stay red or unhighlighted (usernamle.com/stewardle).
3. You get six attempts. Guess the mystery driver within six tries to win. Run out of attempts and the game reveals the answer.
4. A new driver every day. Like Wordle, there is one official daily puzzle shared by all players — the same mystery driver for everybody each day.
5. Share your result. Share your score with friends when you finish, like Wordle's famous emoji grid.

The driver pool covers the entire hybrid era (2014 to the present) — current stars and recent alumni alike (usernamle.com/stewardle).

The Stat Feedback System: What Each Column Means

Stewardle compares your guess to the answer across the driver's key career stats:

• Nationality — the driver's country (e.g., British, Dutch, Spanish).
• Team — the constructor the driver currently races for, or most recently raced for.
• Car number — the driver's permanent race number.
• Age — the driver's current age.
• Debut year — the season the driver first raced in Formula 1.
• Race wins — career Grand Prix victories.
• Championships — career World Drivers' Championship titles.

Each column of the feedback grid tells you whether your guess matches the mystery driver on that stat (dlegames.org/category/sports; github.com/ssyyhhrr/stewardle). This makes Stewardle a game of deduction rather than vocabulary: a green "Team" column instantly narrows the field to two drivers, while a green "Nationality" plus a green "Debut year" can practically hand you the answer.

How to Read the Colours

• Green in a column means your guess matches the mystery driver on that attribute — for example, guessing a Red Bull driver when the answer also drives for Red Bull.
• Red or unhighlighted means no match on that attribute, so you can rule out every driver sharing that trait.
• Arrows (on numeric stats) may indicate whether the answer's value is higher or lower than your guess, depending on the version you're playing — useful for zeroing in on age, car number, or win totals.

Daily Mode vs Infinite Mode

Stewardle offers two ways to play, and the best version for you depends on how much F1 trivia you can handle in one sitting.

The daily mode is the classic experience: one puzzle per day, no second chances, and a shareable result. Infinite mode (offered on portal versions such as wordle2.io/stewardle and wordhurdle.co/stewardle) removes the daily limit so you can keep playing round after round — ideal if you're new to the game and want to learn how the feedback system works before your streak is on the line (wordle2.io/stewardle).

Where to Play Stewardle (Verified Sites)

Stewardle is free and runs entirely in the browser — no download or installation needed. These are the verified places to play:

• stewardle.com — the official demo from the game's creator, linked directly from the open-source GitHub project (github.com/ssyyhhrr/stewardle).
• wordle2.io/stewardle — hosts both the daily challenge mode and infinite mode with a random driver each round.
• wordhurdle.co/stewardle — another portal version with daily and infinite play plus how-to-play guidance.
• dlegames.org — lists Stewardle in its sports daily-games collection alongside Poeltl and Footdle.

Because the game is open source, unofficial copies exist across the web. The official demo and the GitHub repository are the safest bets.

Strategy: How to Win at Stewardle

Guessing F1 drivers is a different skill from guessing words. These tactics will sharpen your deduction.

1. Open with a well-connected driver

Your first guess should maximise information. Pick a driver whose attributes split the field cleanly — a mid-grid driver with an unusual nationality or a distinctive car number tells you more than guessing Verstappen immediately. If "Team" goes green, you've narrowed 20+ drivers down to two.

2. Use nationality as your first filter

Nationality is the fastest eliminator in the game. F1's grid is concentrated in a handful of countries, so one green or red nationality column can wipe out half the driver pool in a single guess.

3. Let the numbers talk

Car number, age, debut year, and win totals are brutally efficient clues. Debut year is especially powerful: it splits the grid into clear eras (the 2014–2016 intake, the 2019 rookie class, the recent debutants).

4. Remember the 2014 cutoff

The database only includes drivers from the hybrid era onward. Don't waste guesses on legends from earlier eras — no Schumacher (the Michael kind), no Senna, no Prost. If a name feels too vintage, it isn't in the pool.

5. Save your obvious guesses for last

It's tempting to open with Hamilton or Verstappen, but star drivers teach you the least when they're wrong. Work the attributes first, then spend your final guesses on the big names once the field is narrow. Infinite mode is perfect for drilling the midfield and backmarker drivers — knowing their teams, nationalities, and numbers is what separates consistent winners from lucky guessers.

Stewardle vs Other Sports Guessing Games

Stewardle belongs to a whole family of Wordle-style sports games. Here's how it compares:

• Poeltl — the NBA equivalent: guess the mystery basketball player from stat feedback. Same deduction loop, different sport (dlegames.org).
• Footdle — the football (soccer) version: guess the player from position, club, league, and nationality clues.
• Formudle — a broader F1 puzzle collection covering drivers, teams, races, and records across multiple game modes.

If you enjoy Stewardle's stat-deduction gameplay, these sibling games scratch the same itch — and practising across sports sharpens the general skill of reading feedback grids efficiently. For more word-guessing variety, Plusword offers its own daily word puzzle with a crossword twist, and our guide to Parseword covers Josh Wardle's cryptic-crossword game.