Games Like Worldle: Daily Country Shape Puzzles
What is the closest game to Worldle?
Globle is the nearest swap: you name countries on a 3D globe and every guess is coloured by how close it is to the hidden one, so the search is spatial rather than visual. If the flag-and-capital side of geography appeals to you more than outlines, Flagle and Countryle are the better fit, and Travle replaces the silhouette with borders you have to cross.
Worldle turns a map into a guessing game. Each day it shows the silhouette of a country or territory and nothing else: no letters, no capital, no continent. You have six guesses, and after each one the page tells you how far away you were, which direction to move, and how close the shape was. An archive keeps past days playable, so a run can last five minutes or an hour. Because the only clue is a shape, Worldle rewards a particular kind of map memory: the outline of a border, the bulge of a coastline, the way a country sits against its neighbours. The six games below test the same knowledge from different angles. Some give you a globe that heats up as you get closer, some ask about flags or borders, and one puts you on a street corner with only a photograph. All are free to play in a browser, and most publish a new puzzle every day. Uncommon Trivia, the last entry, is our own game; the rest are independent, and we are not connected to Worldle or to any game listed here.
Prefer a globe that heats up over a country outline? See games like Globle.
Name countries on a 3D globe and watch each guess turn from cold to hot, so you can home in on the hidden country without a guess limit.
A daily flag is revealed in slices and you have six tries to name the country, with bonus rounds on capitals, shapes and borders once you are done.
A Wordle-style daily country puzzle: each guess is scored against the hidden country on continent, hemisphere, population and temperature.
Get from one country to another by naming the countries in between, using shared borders, and try to beat the shortest possible route.
- SeterraFree
A large collection of free map quizzes, from naming every country in Africa to placing US states, with 400+ quizzes sorted by continent.
Drop into a Street View location anywhere on Earth and place your guess on the map; you need to sign up to play.
Seven questions a day where rare correct answers score higher than obvious ones, with 25 seconds per question and no account needed.
Side-by-side comparison
| Game | What you do | How scoring works | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worldle(reference) | Guess a country from its silhouette, six tries a day. | Each guess returns distance, direction and how close the shape was. | Players who recognise countries by outline alone. |
| Globle | Guess the hidden country on a globe, with unlimited guesses. | Every guess is coloured by distance: the hotter the country, the closer you are. | Players who think in proximity rather than in outlines. |
| Flagle | Guess the country from a flag revealed piece by piece, six tries. | Each wrong guess uncovers more of the flag; bonus rounds follow the main puzzle. | Players who know flags better than coastlines. |
| Countryle | Guess one hidden country a day, with clue columns after every try. | Continent, hemisphere, population and temperature narrow the field with each guess. | Players who like deduction from facts rather than shapes. |
| Travle | Connect two countries through bordering countries in as few guesses as possible. | You are scored against the shortest route; extra countries count against you. | Players whose mental map is made of borders. |
| Seterra | Map quizzes by region and topic, playable any time. | Each quiz is timed and scored by correct placements. | Players who want to drill a region until it sticks. |
| GeoGuessr | Identify locations from Street View imagery. | Points fall off with distance between your guess and the real spot. | Players who read road signs, plants and architecture. |
| Uncommon Trivia | Seven questions a day, 25 seconds each. | The rarer your correct answer, the more it scores. | Players who want a knowledge game with the same daily rhythm. |
How Worldle turns a map into a daily puzzle
The clue is deliberately thin. You get a black shape on a plain background and six attempts to name the country or territory it belongs to. After each attempt the game reports the distance in kilometres, points an arrow toward the answer, and gives a rough percentage for how close the shape was. That combination is what makes it playable: distance alone would let you triangulate, but the silhouette keeps pulling you back to visual memory.
Because the answer can be a territory rather than a sovereign state, the game also rewards patience. A shape that looks like a small island may belong to a country on the other side of the world, and the distance clue is the only thing that says so.
Shape memory, fact memory and border memory
Geography games tend to test one of three things. Worldle tests shape memory: the outline of a border, a coastline, a peninsula. Countryle and Flagle test fact memory: which continent, which colours, which capital. Travle tests border memory: not what a country looks like, but what it touches.
If Worldle is easy for you, the likely reason is that you already carry a visual map. In that case Travle is the sharper test, because it asks you to walk that map rather than recognise a piece of it. If Worldle is hard, Countryle is the gentler entry point: it gives you facts after every guess instead of making you stare at an outline.
What to play when you want more than one puzzle a day
Worldle gives you one shape a day, plus the archive. Seterra and GeoGuessr are the two games here without that limit. Seterra is a drill: pick a continent and name every country until the list is clean. GeoGuessr is closer to Worldle in spirit, because both ask you to read a place rather than recall a name, but GeoGuessr gives you photographs instead of silhouettes.
If you want a daily habit that is not geography at all, Uncommon Trivia keeps the same one-puzzle-a-day shape with a scoring twist: obvious answers earn little, and the rare correct answer is the one worth chasing.
How we picked
We only list games that are free to play, we prioritize the ones that publish a new puzzle every day, and we check every detail here against each game's own official website.
All games listed belong to their respective creators.