Worldle Game

How to play Worldle Game?

1. Look at the outline of some territory on a map. Make your first guess in terms of a valid country, island, or territory. Enter it in the first empty cell or select from the list and click the Guess button.
2. If your answer is incorrect, you will see hints about the closeness of your guess in percentage terms. A higher percentage means you are close to the correct answer.
3. The hints will show you the direction and distance from your choice to the target territory.
4. You have six attempts to give the correct answer.
5. Want to make the game harder? Go to “Settings” and hide the country image or rotate it randomly.
6. You can change the distance unit from kilometers to miles in “Settings”.

Start typing and the game suggests matching names; common short forms such as USA, UK or Ivory Coast work too. Press Enter or the Guess button to send the highlighted name. Full rules with examples are in our How to Play guide.

What each guess tells you

Every guess adds a row with four parts:

• Distance. How far your guess is from the hidden country, in kilometers or miles. It is measured between the center points of the two countries, so even a neighbor shows a few hundred kilometers.
• Direction. An arrow that points from your guess toward the hidden country, in one of 8 compass directions: north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west or northwest.
• Proximity. A percentage of how close you are, on a scale of 20,000 km: every 200 km away takes off one point. Only the right country gets 100%.
• Colored bar. Five squares that fill as the percentage rises: one green square for every 20%, plus a yellow one when you are at least halfway to the next.

Here the hidden country is Peru. Brazil points west, Ecuador points southeast, and Peru lies between them: the third guess shows 0 km and a check mark.

Daily Worldle and Practice

• Daily Worldle

  The game on this page: one country a day, the same for everyone. It changes at midnight in your time zone, and the puzzle numbers continue from the old site.

• Practice

  Unlimited random countries in Practice. Pick a region, choose whether small islands and territories can come up, and press Next country whenever you like. Practice has its own stats and never touches your daily streak.

• Previous days

  Missed a day? Play any of the last 30 daily puzzles from the archive. They count in your history and statistics, but they never change your streak.

• Result map

  When a round ends, a world map shows the answer and your guesses as numbered dots, with links to Google Maps and Wikipedia.

Bonus rounds: flag and capital

After the daily country, found or not, you can play two short bonus rounds: pick the country's flag from 4, then its capital from 4. Each right answer earns a star, up to 2 a day, shown on your result, in your statistics and in the share text.

Hide or rotate the shape

Hide shape keeps the silhouette out of sight, so you play with distances and arrows alone. Rotate shape turns it by an angle that is the same for everyone that day. Finish a round that way and the share text marks it, as on the old site.

Streaks, stats and sharing

Your statistics show how many daily games you have played, your win percentage, your current and best streak, how many guesses your wins took (1 to 6, or X for a miss), your average best distance and your bonus stars. The streak counts the days in a row on which you found the country; a lost game or a missed day starts it again.

If you played Worldle on this site before, nothing is lost: in the same browser, the new version reads your old games and settings, so your stats and streak continue.

The Share button prepares your result as colored squares and arrows, with the puzzle number, your stars and a link, but never the country's name. On phones it opens the share menu; on computers it copies the text.

Did you like Worldle Game?

Worldle is a geographic spin-off of Wordle created by 31-year-old game developer Antoine Theuf. At first, users were confused by the similarity of the names of the games, but in fact they are very different. The main difference between the two is that in Worldle, players must target countries rather than words. Interestingly, the “father” of Worldle is not well versed in geography, and in his work he was inspired by Wordle and GeoGuessr. After launching in January 2022, Worldle quickly went viral with thousands of users playing Worldle every day. Territory silhouettes are updated every day in Worldle from OpenSource maps and a standardized set of country codes created by the International Organization for Standardization, so you can improve your geographic skills every day in this game!

Why play Worldle here

• Free and instant

  No account, no download and nothing to buy. The game is part of the page, so it starts right away, even on a slow connection.

• Made for phones

  The shape, the input and your guesses fit on one phone screen, and the input stays visible above the on-screen keyboard.

• Keeps your streak

  Your games, stats and settings are saved in your browser after every guess. Close the tab, come back later, and the round is where you left it.

• 16 languages

  Play in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and 11 more languages, with country names in your language. English names are accepted on every version.

Prefer an app? Our Android app, Worldle - Guess the Country, is free on Google Play. It has more than 50,000 downloads, works offline, offers unlimited practice and keeps your streaks, in 31 languages.

To find the country in fewer guesses, read our Worldle tips.

Worldle Game FAQ

More answers are on the FAQ page.