Weary ofWordle? Still a big fan? Either way, if you fancy challenging a different part of your brain with a game that still offers thatWordle-type tease, then giveWorldlea go.
As its name just about suggests,Worldletests your geography knowledge by getting you to guess the name of a country simply by its shape.
Just likeWordle, you have six chances to guess the correct answer. To help you along the way, each wrong guess results in several clues such as the distance and direction to the target country from the one you just entered.
For example, if your first guess is Chile and the answer is Lebanon, the game will reveal you’re off by 13,557 km (you may change the unit to miles) and display an arrow to point you in the geographical direction of the correct answer.
If you go for Finland next, you’ll discover that you’re 3,206 km off — a helpful clue that lets you know you’re getting close. Note that the distances correspond to those between thecenterof the guessed and target countries. For example, despite sharing a border, the distance between the U.S. and Canada will show as 2,260 km.
If you findWorldletoo easy (you won’t), you can make it harder by having the country image randomly rotated, or by having the image turned off altogether.
Worldlelaunched in late January soon afterWordlestarted gaining global attention. After a slow start,Worldleis beginning to get some serious attention. On February 14, for example, its France-based creator revealed that more than half a million people played the game the day before.
You crazy people! It was supposed to be just a small side project! We are now half a million who played#Worldletoday! Wtf?! 🤯🤩 Thanks to all of you! ❤️pic.twitter.com/3IqZ3JzYLn
— teuteuf (@teuteuf)June 27, 2025
LikeWordle,Worldleis web-only, offers a new challenge each day, and has no ads. But unlikeWordle, it hasn’t beensnapped up The New York Timesfor a large sum of money … (yet).
OtherWordlespin-offs includeNerdlefor math fans,Squirdlefor Pokémon fans, andLewdlefor fans of the kind of words you’ll never see onWordle.
