Wordle-style geography games
Wordle's real invention was the ritual: one shared puzzle a day, a streak, and a result you can share without spoiling it. Geography took to that formula better than almost anything. The dailies worth keeping:
The map dailies
Worldle shows a country's silhouette; each wrong guess answers with the distance and direction to the target. Globle hides a mystery country and shades every guess hotter or colder until you corner it. Countryle plays it like the original Wordle grid — each guess reveals whether the target is warmer, more populous, further east.
The photograph dailies
TimeGuessr moved the formula onto historical photographs: guess where and when each one was taken. PinPast plays it the archive way: five public-domain photographs each day, a pin on the map and a year on the dial, up to 10,000 points per round — and after every guess, the real archive record opens. The full comparison of that branch lives at games like TimeGuessr; the wider genre at games like GeoGuessr.
Frequently asked
What makes a game "Wordle-style"?
One shared puzzle a day, a few minutes to play, a streak to protect, and a spoiler-free result you can paste into a group chat. The daily ritual is the point — everyone solves the same puzzle and compares.
Is there a Wordle for maps?
Worldle is the closest translation: guess the country from its silhouette, with distance and direction feedback after each try. Globle turns it into a hotter/colder search across the whole globe.
Is there a daily geography game about history?
That is the where-and-when branch: TimeGuessr and PinPast show you real historical photographs and score both where you pin the map and which year you call.
Are these games free?
Every game on this page is playable free in the browser. PinPast is free with no account and no ads — five rounds a day plus unlimited practice, with streaks stored in your browser.
Wordle, Worldle, Globle, Countryle, TimeGuessr and GeoGuessr are their respective owners' games — named here for comparison only. No affiliation.