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The Stand · How to play

How to play The Stand

The Stand is JoJodle's image-and-card sibling: a pixelated portrait sharpens with every wrong guess, and four manga-print flip cards reveal Part, Stand type, user initial and Stand initial on a fixed cadence. You're guessing the Stand itself, not its user.

The 30-second version

Look at the pixelated Stand portrait. Type a Stand name. The portrait sharpens by one step on each wrong guess; every two wrong guesses unlocks one of four hint cards. Solve before ten guesses. The pool is 148 Stands across all nine Parts; a new one drops every UTC midnight.

What you're guessing

The Stand asks for the Stand, not the Stand user. So if today's portrait is Crazy Diamond, the correct guess is "Crazy Diamond" — not "Josuke Higashikata", even though picking Josuke in the search box autocompletes to his Stand. Wrong choice still counts as a wrong guess.

The autocomplete dropdown always shows both names side by side, with the user's portrait on the left and the Stand's portrait on the right. The Stand name is the one in bold; that's what you're submitting.

The candidate pool is the 148 Stand users in our roster who carry a named Stand. Parts 1 and 2 have no Stand users (Hamon era), so the pool is entirely Parts 3–9.

The pixelated portrait

The portrait at the top of the page is a real Stand portrait from the wiki, run through a Canvas pipeline that downsamples to a coarse grid and re-upscales without smoothing. The result is a pixel-art style, not a blur. The size of those pixels shrinks by one step on every wrong guess:

  • 0 wrong guesses — 40-pixel blocks (just colour fields)
  • 3 — 20-pixel blocks (posture readable)
  • 5 — 12-pixel blocks (silhouette clear)
  • 7 — 6-pixel blocks (face detail starting to appear)
  • 9 — 2-pixel blocks (nearly clear)
  • 10 (game over) — original portrait, no pixelation

The image also runs through a saturation cut and a cream-paper multiply layer so it reads as printed, not as a still from the anime. That's deliberate — the portrait isn't trying to be photo-real; it's trying to be a clue.

The four flip cards

Four hint cards sit below the portrait, all face-down at start. They flip on a fixed schedule:

  • After 2 wrong guesses → Card 1 flips
  • After 4 wrong guesses → Card 2 flips
  • After 6 wrong guesses → Card 3 flips
  • After 8 wrong guesses → Card 4 flips

Card 1 — Part

Names the Part the Stand first appeared in, with the Part's official title. "First seen in Part 4 — Diamond is Unbreakable." This is the biggest single-step narrowing on the board: nine Parts, one wins.

Card 2 — Stand Type

Names the Stand's combat type with a one-line description in the editorial tone of the rest of the site. "Its reach is its body's reach. Close-Range." The five types are Close-Range, Long-Range, Automatic, Colony, and Sense-Type.

Card 3 — User's initial

The first letter of the Stand bearer's English name. Often the most useful card in mid-game, when you've already guessed two or three Stands from the wrong Part.

Card 4 — Stand initial + length

The first letter of the Stand's name plus a word count (e.g. "Three-word name. Begins with — C."). Word count is honest about names like "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" and "20th Century Boy" without trying to do syllable analysis.

Hardmode

Hardmode is opt-in via the toggle above the search box; you can change your mind right up until your first guess, at which point the toggle locks for the day.

What it changes: the card schedule stretches from every-2-misses to every-3-misses, so across 10 guesses you only see three of the four cards instead of all four. The pixelation ladder is unchanged. Winning still earns Clean / Minimal as usual; the Hardmode chip appears on the reveal banner and a 💀 marker appears on the share line.

Sharing

The share button copies a 3-line text block: a header with your guess count, an emoji grid where ⬛ marks a pixelation step and 🟩 marks the solving guess, and a /result/<code> URL that reconstructs the same grid + badges on a landing page for whoever clicks it. The URL never contains the answer's id, so the page is spoiler-safe even before the target opens it.

Frequently asked questions

▸ What am I actually guessing?
A Stand — not a Stand user. The candidate pool is every Stand named in the JoJo series whose user is in our roster (currently 148 Stands). Picking the right user but the wrong Stand still counts as a wrong guess.
▸ How does the pixelation work?
The portrait starts heavily pixelated (40-pixel blocks plus a soft blur) and sharpens by one step on every wrong guess. The image is rendered in a manga-print palette — desaturated and tinted toward the page — so it never looks like a screenshot from the anime.
▸ When do the hint cards flip?
One card flips every two wrong guesses in the default mode: 0–1 misses → no cards, 2–3 → 1 card, 4–5 → 2 cards, 6–7 → 3 cards, 8+ → all four. In Hardmode the schedule stretches to every three misses, so the fourth card only flips on the 9th wrong guess.
▸ What's on each card?
Card 1 is the Part the Stand first appeared in (e.g. "Part 4 — Diamond is Unbreakable"). Card 2 is the Stand's combat type with a one-line description. Card 3 is the first letter of the bearer's name. Card 4 is the Stand's word count plus the first letter of its name.
▸ How many guesses do I have?
Ten — the same hard cap as JoJodle. After 10 wrong guesses the answer is revealed and the streak resets. A Give-up button appears once you've made six wrong guesses.
▸ Does The Stand share a streak with JoJodle?
No. Each mode tracks its own streak, stats, badges, and Hardmode toggle. The roster runs in a separate seeded shuffle so JoJodle and The Stand never share an answer on the same UTC day.
▸ Why are some Stand portraits missing?
Six entries in the current candidate pool don't yet have portraits on disk because their wiki pages don't have an infobox image we can crop. Those rows fall back to a placeholder in the guess history; the daily picker still includes them, and the gap will close as the wiki fills out.
▸ What does Hardmode change?
Hint card schedule from every-2-misses to every-3-misses (so you only see 3 cards across 10 guesses instead of 4), and the Hardmode badge appears on the reveal banner + share line. The pixelation ladder is unchanged.

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