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Worldle is my new favourite Wordle spin-offGuess the country based on its shape

Guess the country based on its shape

A screenshot of Worldle showing an outline of a country and spaces below to guess what country it is.

Wordleis a genre now. Its rapid success has caused a proliferation of browser games in which all players are presented with the same puzzle each day, limited guesses, and easy options to share their results.

Where Wordle indicates correct letters and positions in each guess, Worldle tells you how close your guess is in kilometres. Yesterday, my first guess was “Japan”, which was 5143km or 74% towards the correct answer.

In some ways I like it more than Wordle, even. It’s almost impossible to get Wordle right on your first guess, and once you’ve come up with an efficient starting word which includes common letters, there’s little reason to ever switch from it. Worldle, meanwhile, gives you an opening clue in the form of the country’s shape. You might know it immediately, but most likely it’ll give you somewhere to start your thought process.

After that, my existing geography knowledge normally lets me rule out a handful of countries, and then more basic guesswork gets me the rest of the way. At this point, I’m playing five of these daily Wordle-inspired puzzle games per day, but Worldle is the best of the bunch.

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