It’s been a while since the internet started getting flooded with yellow and green squares that entice people into discovering a game called Wordle. If you’re one of those who’s been out of the loop, Wordle is a free-to-play online word game where you guess the five-letter word of the day. There is also a version which allows you to play more than once per day through its archives.
After the browser game’s popularity boomed, new variants emerged everywhere–borrowing its concept of guessing in a limited number of tries while leaving clues. One of these is called Worldle: a daily game of determining the country of the day through its shape.
Worldle still uses the same concept as the original game, but instead asks you for the name of the country shown in the photo. You are given six tries to get it right–with each guess specifying the distance between your guess and the correct answer, the direction to take and the proximity (in percentages). So if you’re a geography enthusiast, this might be a guessing game you’d enjoy.
However, for those who play a lot of geography games and are more than familiar with countries and territories around the world, the silhouette shown might be a dead giveaway. Fear not, for the game allows an added challenge for those who want it. You can have the option to either have the country’s shape rotated in a random direction, or hide it completely in order to only refer to the clues after every guess. Go forth, master explorer!
Aside from Worldle, there are a lot of other variations that use the same concept. If you’re looking for more puzzles to play, you can try Saltong (Filipino version of Wordle), Dordle (where you guess two daily words at the same time), Weredle (guess a daily word but one tile is a liar) and Nerdle (instead of a word, guess the equation of the day).
Happy guessing!
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