Worldle: Guess the Country from Its Outline

How to play Worldle

1. Look at the outline and pick out its most distinctive feature, such as a long coastline, an island chain, or a straight border.
2. Enter the name of a country or territory. Your first guess can establish the region even if you can’t identify the shape yet.
3. Read the arrow and distance after a miss. The arrow points from your guess toward the answer.
4. Use the next guess to narrow the area. The daily outline gives you six attempts, followed by optional bonus rounds.

Use the arrow to test a region

Imagine you start with Sri Lanka and the arrow points southwest. Test a country across the Indian Ocean and compare the new direction. If your next guess points back northeast, you’ve crossed the target’s general direction. Use the outline again to pick among the countries that remain plausible.

The practice round here estimates distances between reference points. The official game supplies its own distances. For a small island, it is often faster to identify the ocean first, then look for details such as a narrow tip, a wide bay, or a chain of offshore islands.

Daily, free, and suitable for beginners

The browser daily is free to start, and the publisher offers optional paid extras. Try a daily round if you want the same puzzle as friends, or open the practice option on the official site for more silhouettes. Beginners can start with broad regional guesses. More experienced players can try recognizing the outline before entering anything.

Read what the outline leaves out

A silhouette removes scale, neighbors, and the names of nearby seas. Two countries of very different sizes can look alike when the shapes are fitted into the same box. Compare the pattern of the borders instead. A mostly straight edge is a useful landmark if the opposite edge is ragged. An island chain can still be recognizable if you know which island sits farthest away from the main group.

Keep the first shape on screen while you make each guess. If the distance falls but the bearing swings from southeast to east, you may be at the right latitude and still too far west. If the distance barely changes, try a country that would give a more different bearing. That extra information is often worth more than guessing a familiar neighbor immediately.

To get more out of a miss, name the feature that misled you before you open the next puzzle. Was it a peninsula you read as an island, or a straight border that suggested the wrong continent? That observation is specific enough to remember the next time you see a similar outline.

Worldle FAQ