Worldle is my new favourite Wordle spin-off Rock Paper Shotgun Support us Join our newsletter Visit our store Sign in / Create account If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Worldle is my new favourite Wordle spin-off Guess the country based on its shape News by Graham Smith Contributor Published on Feb. 5, 2022 10 comments Wordle is a genre now. Its rapid success has caused a proliferation of browser games in which all players are presented with the same puzzle each day, limited guesses, and easy options to share their results. My new favourite is Worldle. It meets all the criteria, including being free and playable in your browser, but instead of guessing a word you're attempt to identify a country by its silhouette. Where Wordle indicates correct letters and positions in each guess, Worldle tells you how close your guess is in kilometres. Yesterday, my first guess was "Japan", which was 5143km or 74% towards the correct answer. I like Worldle more than most recent variants because it maintains the core pleasure of its inspiration, that of making an educated guess and then honing in step-by-step through further deduction. In some ways I like it more than Wordle, even. It's almost impossible to get Wordle right on your first guess, and once you've come up with an efficient starting word which includes common letters, there's little reason to ever switch from it. Worldle, meanwhile, gives you an opening clue in the form of the country's shape. You might know it immediately, but most likely it'll give you somewhere to start your thought process. Does the country seem big or small? Are its edges straight or jagged? If they're jagged, does it seem like a mountain border or a coastline? I mostly start by mentally ruling out continents I'm most familiar with. Whether the country seems big or small or an island normally lets me infer what continent it might be, which I can confirm with my first guess. After that, my existing geography knowledge normally lets me rule out a handful of countries, and then more basic guesswork gets me the rest of the way. At this point, I'm playing five of these daily Wordle-inspired puzzle games per day, but Worldle is the best of the bunch. Watch on YouTube Looking for more freebies? Check out our list of the best free PC games to play in 2022. More News Jack King-Spooner's next handcrafted game has a teaser demo out Judero brings chat and action in the Scottish Borders Alice O'Connor 17 hours ago 1 If you were hoping for any Overwatch 2 balance changes then you'll have to wait until season two The next season begins in December CJ Wheeler 18 hours ago 3 The Dead Space remake will chuck random Necromorphs at you as you wander the Ishimura In space, no one can hear you proper bricking it CJ Wheeler 18 hours ago 8 Valve register mysterious new Neon Prime trademark in the US It doesn’t seem to be for a particularly colourful Steam Deck CJ Wheeler 20 hours ago 11 Latest Articles What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Alice O'Connor an hour ago 22 Past Wordle answers Here's an archive of previous Wordle words Ollie Toms 2 hours ago 1 Wordle answer today (Saturday 15 October) Hints and the answer to today's Wordle word Rebecca Jones 9 hours ago Overwatch 2 hero tier list Which are the best heroes in Overwatch 2? Ollie Toms 16 hours ago Supporters Only You're probably better than me at One Many Nobody You go on without… uh, you? Sin Vega 17 hours ago Supporter podcast - The Nate Files episode 13: dry bones Bad science is also FUN science! Alice Bell 18 hours ago Japanese dating show Love Wagon has surprising parallels with Yakuza and Persona My new obsession Ed Thorn 2 days ago If you're hankering after Bayonetta 3, Valkyrie Elysium might be a good substitute It's not out on PC until next month, but the console demo has been a surprise charmer Katharine Castle 1 week ago 4 We've been talking, and we think that you should wear clothes Total coincidence, but we sell some clothes Buy RPS stuff here