The Stand
Guess today's Stand. The portrait sharpens with each wrong guess, and a new clue card flips for every two misses.
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The Stand is a daily JoJo guessing game where you identify a Stand from a portrait that's almost entirely pixels — and sharpens with every wrong guess.
Unlike the original JoJodle, where you read eight attribute columns to triangulate a character, The Stand asks one question with one image: which Stand is this? The picture is rendered as coarse pixel blocks and a manga-print colour wash, then refines itself one step at a time as you guess. By the eighth wrong guess you can usually read the silhouette; by the tenth, you've either won or the round is over.
Four flip cards sit below the portrait and give you a structured backup: every two wrong guesses, one card turns face up and tells you the Part, the Stand type, the bearer's first initial, or the Stand's first initial. The pool is 148 Stand-bearing characters from every Part that has them — every player worldwide sees the same Stand on the same UTC day.
Three signals, ten guesses, one Stand
The Stand layers three independent clue sources so any one of them can carry a player who's stuck on the other two. None of them ever spoils today's puzzle for tomorrow's player — every signal resets at 00:00 UTC.
- 1
Read the portrait
Today's Stand sits at the top, heavily pixelated. The silhouette, dominant colour, and posture give you Part 5 vs Part 7 well before any text appears. Manga-print tones keep the image readable without looking like an anime screencap.
- 2
Pick from 148 Stands
The search box autocompletes every Stand in the pool, sorted alphabetically with the user's portrait on the left and the Stand's on the right. You're guessing the Stand name, not the user — picking the right user with the wrong Stand still counts as a miss.
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Watch the cards flip
Every two wrong guesses, the next hint card flips. Card 1 is Part. Card 2 is Stand type. Card 3 is the bearer's name initial. Card 4 is the Stand's name initial and word count. By guess eight, all four are face-up.
Want every rule spelled out, including the pixelation ladder per step? Read the full Stand guide →
148 Stands across all nine parts
The candidate pool covers every Stand whose user is in the JoJodle roster — Parts 3 through 9. Parts 1 and 2 are Hamon-era and skipped automatically. Here's how the pool breaks down per Part.
Part 3 owns the biggest share of the pool by a wide margin — the Stardust Crusaders Tarot Stand users alone are nearly a quarter of every Stand named in the series. If you don't have a strong opening guess, a Part 3 supporting Stand is the statistically safest choice.
Five combat shapes a Stand can take
Card 2 (Stand type) breaks every Stand into one of five categories. The yellow band on the JoJodle attribute grid uses the same system. Knowing the type narrows the pool faster than any other single card — there are roughly five times as many Close-Range Stands as Sense-Type ones.
- Close-Range
- A Stand whose reach is its body's reach. Star Platinum, Crazy Diamond, Gold Experience, The World — most of the marquee Stands sit here. Punch, parry, repair. The Close-Range group is the densest type in the pool and the easiest yellow on the type card.
- Long-Range
- Operates beyond eye contact. Hierophant Green firing emerald splash from blocks away, Hermit Purple reading photos, Manhattan Transfer perched on a bridge. Long-Range Stands tend to be precision instruments rather than brawlers.
- Automatic
- Acts on its own once triggered, even after the user leaves. Stray Cat, Notorious B.I.G., Highway Star, Cheap Trick — Stands where the bearer effectively becomes irrelevant once the Stand is in play. These are also the deadliest in the long tail.
- Colony
- Many small units, one will. Bad Company toy soldiers, Sex Pistols numbered bullets, Harvest 500 hornets, Spice Girl ricochets through reality. Colony Stands feel deceptively scattered until the cooperation reveals itself mid-fight.
- Sense-Type
- It is not a fist. It is a sense. Hermit Purple's clairvoyance, Heaven's Door reading people, Tusk's modal escalation, Wonder of U's calamity. The hardest type to spot from a portrait — Sense-Type Stands often look like ordinary humans.
How to spend your ten guesses
Stand mode rewards committing early. The pixelation only thaws when you guess, and the hint cards only flip when you miss — so a player who waits for more information is the player who runs out of guesses.
First guess: pick a Part 3 mid-tier
The pool is Part-3 heavy and Card 1 (Part) is your single highest-information flip. Guessing a Stardust Crusaders one-off antagonist (Yellow Temperance, Anubis, Cream) costs you nothing if wrong and confirms Part 3 if you happen to be right.
Mid-game: watch the silhouette
Around the 4th or 5th miss the portrait is sharp enough to read the broad shape: humanoid (most Stands), animal-shaped (Iggy, Pet Shop, Stray Cat), or non-Euclidean (Sticky Fingers, King Crimson). Combined with the Part card, this usually narrows the pool to single digits.
Endgame: use the Stand initial
Card 4 (Stand initial + word count) is the most underrated hint. A '2-word name starting with B' rules out Aerosmith, Whitesnake, Tusk, etc. in one read — turn that card into a checklist and the answer often emerges from the surviving five or six candidates.
Need more depth? The Stand guide walks every pixelation step + card cadence in detail, including Hardmode's stretched-out reveal schedule.
Common questions about The Stand
Six questions that come up most often after a first play. The full rules + Hardmode interactions live in the dedicated guide.
▸ Is The Stand the same game as JoJodle?
Different game, same site. JoJodle reads eight attribute columns to identify a character; The Stand asks you to identify a Stand from a single image. They share the roster, the manga-print look and the leaderboard, but each runs its own daily puzzle on its own seed, so the answer never overlaps on the same day.
▸ How many Stand portraits are in the pool?
148 — every named Stand whose user is in our roster, drawn from Parts 3 through 9. Parts 1 and 2 don't appear because they're Hamon-era and have no Stand users.
▸ Can I play The Stand without playing JoJodle?
Yes. The modes are independent. Each has its own streak, stats, hardmode toggle and daily seed. You can play any subset on any day — there's no progression gate or prerequisite.
▸ Why does the portrait look so washed out?
On purpose. We render the source image through a Canvas pipeline that drops saturation and overlays a cream-paper multiply layer, so the result looks like newsprint rather than an anime still. The art always stays a clue, never a teaser.
▸ Does The Stand have a Hardmode?
Yes. Toggle it on before your first guess. The hint card schedule stretches from every-two-misses to every-three-misses, so you only see three of the four cards across ten guesses instead of all four. Pixelation isn't affected. Winning on Hardmode shows the 💀 badge on the share text.
▸ Can I see the past Stand puzzles?
Yes — visit the archive at /archive and pick the Stand tab. The most recent seven days are hidden so you can't accidentally spoil yourself if you come back to finish a puzzle.
Why The Stand exists
The original JoJodle was already a daily product. The Stand isn't trying to replace it — it covers the share of fans who recognise Stands faster than they recognise users.
Stands are JoJo's most ownable visual language — every fan has a fluency reading them that they don't necessarily have for unrelated characters from the same Part. Asking "name this Stand" rewards a different memory than "name this character". By keeping the two modes side-by-side, the same player can come back tomorrow and solve a puzzle that exercises the opposite muscle.
We also designed The Stand to be honest about what each clue is worth. Most picture-quiz games keep blurring or zooming out without ever telling you why a guess narrowed the field. The flip cards make that visible — every miss earns structured information, not vibes. By the eighth wrong guess you've been given Part + Type + both initials, and the remaining work is yours.