Games like Worldle: 10 free daily geography games to play next

Worldle made guessing a country from its outline a daily habit for millions. Once you've solved today's shape, these ten free games give you more of the same feeling from different angles. All of them run in a browser, and most take two or three minutes.

We make the first one on the list, so we've put it first. The rest are games we play ourselves.

1. TapGuessr: tap the exact spot, not just the country

TapGuessr gives you five written clues a day, a mix of surprising places and famous sports venues. Instead of naming a country, you tap where you think the place is on a 3D satellite globe. Land within 25 km and it's a bullseye; points fall away with distance, so a near miss still scores.

Why Worldle players like it: Worldle trains you to recognise countries. TapGuessr asks the next question: where in the country? Later clues count double and quadruple, so the last tap can change your whole day. There's also a daily leaderboard.

Play it if you like: Worldle's distance arrows, and knowing a little about everywhere.

2. Globle: warmer, colder, on a globe

Globle hides a mystery country and colours every guess by how close it is, from pale yellow to deep red. You narrow in across a spinning globe until you find it.

Play it if you like: the hot-and-cold feeling of Worldle's distance hints.

3. Travle: find a route between two countries

Travle gives you a start and an end country and asks you to name the countries in between, in as few guesses as possible. It's a test of borders more than shapes.

Play it if you like: looking at maps and knowing who borders whom.

4. Tradle: guess the country from what it exports

Tradle, from the Observatory of Economic Complexity, shows a chart of a country's exports. You guess the country. Oil, coffee, cars and copper turn out to be strong clues.

Play it if you like: economics, or a Worldle that feels like a detective case.

5. Flagle: guess the flag

Flagle gives you six tries to name a country from its flag, with bonus rounds on the country's shape, capital and borders once you've got it.

Play it if you like: flags, and Worldle's bonus rounds.

6. Countryle: deduce the country from facts

Countryle works like a logic puzzle. Each guess tells you whether the hidden country is on the same continent or hemisphere, and whether its population and temperature are higher or lower.

Play it if you like: narrowing down with clues rather than recognising shapes.

7. Capitalle: world capitals

Capitalle is a daily puzzle about capital cities. It's a good way to fill the capitals gap that shape games leave.

Play it if you like: capitals quizzes.

8. Citydle: a city a day

Citydle swaps countries for cities: a new mystery city every day.

Play it if you like: Worldle, but one step closer: cities instead of countries.

9. TimeGuessr: where and when

TimeGuessr shows historic photos. You guess where each was taken on a map, and the year. It's part geography, part history.

Play it if you like: old photos and a longer daily session.

10. Seterra: practice between daily games

Seterra isn't a daily game. It's the classic map quiz: click every country in Africa, every US state, every capital in Europe, against the clock. Ten minutes on Seterra makes every game above easier.

Play it if you like: getting better, fast.

Which one should you play next?

• You want more of Worldle's feeling: Globle, then Flagle.
• You want something harder: Travle or Tradle.
• You want to get beyond "which country": TapGuessr, where the goal is the exact spot.
• You want to improve: Seterra, then read our 7 ways to get better at geography games.

All of these reset daily, so a five-game routine takes about fifteen minutes.