Daily geography games worth playing

I play a few of these every morning. If you do the same, or you have played Worldle and wondered what else is out there, here are fifteen worth the five minutes.

I have grouped them by what each one asks you rather than ranking them.

All free, all one puzzle a day, all in a browser. Last checked September 2026.

Recognise the country from a picture of it

• Worldle · A country's outline and six guesses. Each wrong guess gives you the distance and direction to the answer. The one most people start with, and the one most of the others are a variation on.
• Flagle · A flag revealed one tile at a time, six guesses. Harder than it sounds as soon as you leave Europe.
• Mapster · You draw a country from memory and it scores how close you got. The only game here where you produce something rather than pick something.

Narrow it down

• Globle · Name any country and it lights up on a globe, hotter the closer you are. No guess limit, which makes it the most forgiving game on this list and the best one to hand someone who says they are bad at geography.
• Countryle · Each guess tells you hemisphere, population, temperature and continent relative to the answer. Deduction rather than recognition.
• Travle · Name the countries that get you from one country to another by land. Tests borders, which almost nothing else does.

Read the data, then name the country

• Tradle · A treemap of one country's exports, and you name the country. Published by the Observatory of Economic Complexity, so the data underneath is the real thing.
• Pyramiddle · A population pyramid, and you name the country. Age structure turns out to be a strong fingerprint once you have seen a few.

Put things in order

• Sortlas · Five countries and one statistic, and you put them in order, highest first, in three tries. Correct placements lock so you cannot lose ground, and the full ranking behind each day's stat is published once the puzzle is over.
• Rankle · You are given countries and pick which category each one ranks highest in. The inverse question to Sortlas: not what order, but which measure.
• GeoHunter · Match countries to real-world data and guess where they land in global rankings. More of a progression game than the rest of this list, with modes that unlock as you level up and an account for the leaderboards.

Work out where a picture was taken

• WhereTaken · A photograph, and you drop a pin on a map. Signage, vegetation and architecture are the clues.
• EarthGuessr · A satellite view instead of a street-level photo, so you are reading terrain, field patterns and road layout rather than signs.

Lateral

• GeoGrid · A three by three grid with a category on each row and column. Name a country that satisfies both.
• GeoConnections · Find what links a set of countries, cities and landmarks.

Where to start

If you have never played one, start with Globle. No guess limit and no way to fail, and it teaches you the map while you play.

If you want the classic, it is Worldle, and everything else on this list is in conversation with it.

If you would rather reason than recall, the data games are the ones for you. Tradle, Pyramiddle and Sortlas all reward knowing how the world works over knowing what it looks like.