Wordle taught the internet a ritual: one puzzle a day, same time as your coffee, results worth bragging about. Geography people took that idea and built an entire genre on it. This is the full map of that genre — eleven games, what each one actually tests, and which ones have earned a permanent slot in our morning rotation.
Everything here is free, runs in a browser, and needs no account. (For the street-view side of the family, we keep a separate list of games like GeoGuessr — this page is about the dailies.)
Worldle
The one that started the geography-Wordle wave. A country in silhouette, six guesses, and after each miss you get the distance and compass bearing to the answer. Day-to-day difficulty swings wildly — Italy is a gift, a tiny atoll rotated 90° is a crime — and that unevenness is half the charm. worldle.teuteuf.fr
Statele
Worldle’s US-states sibling from the same developer: one state outline a day, same distance-and-direction feedback. Sounds easier than countries until you’re staring at a rectangle wondering which of four rectangles it is. Genuinely humbling for non-Americans, and apparently for plenty of Americans too. statele.teuteuf.fr
Globle
No shape, no clue, nothing — just an empty globe and a hidden country. Every country you name gets painted hotter or colder by proximity, and you triangulate from there. Our average is somewhere around eight guesses; our worst is a number we won’t be printing. globle-game.com
Countryle
The data-nerd’s version. Each guess unlocks comparisons — hemisphere, continent, average temperature, population — and you narrow the field like a detective with a spreadsheet. Less map intuition than Globle, more logic puzzle. If you like Wordle’s yellow-tile reasoning more than its vocabulary, this is your game. countryle.com
Timeguessr
Five real photographs a day. For each, you guess where it was taken and when — a pin on the map and a year on the slider, scored on both. A 1970s street scene becomes a forensic exercise: the cars, the shopfront fonts, the colour of the film stock. It’s the only game on this list that regularly sends us down a history rabbit hole before 9am. timeguessr.com
WhereTaken
One photograph, six guesses at which country it was taken in, with Worldle-style distance arrows pointing you home. Sits nicely between Timeguessr’s forensics and Worldle’s geometry — you’re reading vegetation, architecture, and light instead of outlines. wheretaken.teuteuf.fr
City Guesser
Not strictly a daily, but it belongs here: real walking-tour footage — moving crowds, street sounds, storefronts — and you pin the city. Hearing a language spoken mid-stride is a completely different clue to reading it on a sign. Best played loud. virtualvacation.us
Flagle
A mystery flag hidden behind six tiles; every wrong guess reveals one more. Day one you’ll think you know flags. Day five you’ll discover how many countries chose three horizontal stripes and a vague sense of red. A solid cure for flag overconfidence. flagle.io
Travle
Get from country A to country B by naming every country in between, in as few steps as possible. The only daily that tests borders rather than locations — knowing where Kazakhstan is turns out to be different from knowing what it touches. There’s a US-states version when you want a gentler morning. travle.earth
OpenGuessr
The free street-view guesser — dropped somewhere on Earth, work out where from the scenery. It has a daily challenge alongside unlimited play, which technically qualifies it for this list and practically means “lunch break gone.” openguessr.com
GeoRiddler
Ours, so judge the bias accordingly. One riddle a day about somewhere on Earth — a few cryptic lines, a world map, and a pin. No silhouette to recognise, no photo to dissect: the clue is a story, and the answer is a place. When the riddle clicks mid-read, it’s the best feeling in this genre. When it doesn’t, the map tells you exactly how wrong you were, in kilometres.
Building a rotation
Nobody plays all eleven — that’s a part-time job. A good rotation is three: one quick win, one thinker, one wildcard. Ours is Worldle (thirty seconds, usually), Timeguessr (the thinker), and the daily riddle (we’re contractually obliged, but it would make the cut anyway). Swap in Globle when you want to feel clever and Flagle when you want to be humbled.
And if the daily format ever feels too small, our missions chain five or six riddles into one story — ghost towns, split cities, numbers hidden in the map. That’s the long-form version of everything this genre does.