Wordle for Frequent Travellers: Guess Countries, Capitals, Flags, Sights & Airports

Is Wordle still a thing? Even if the hype surrounding the word game has flattened, it’s still a nice game for short breaks during the day. So today, we would like to present you with some adaptations that might be a little more exciting for frequent travellers like us, such as a wordle with country forms and IATA codes – of course, they can all be played for free.

What is Wordle?

Have you managed to avoid Wordle so far? Congratulations. Since its release in October 2021, the game has taken over social media channels around the world. And that is certainly also due to the simple game principle: users only have to enter five letters to guess a word. With a total of 6 attempts, the respective colours indicate whether the letters are correct:

• Grey box ⬜️: Letter does not appear in the word
• Yellow box 🟨: Letter occurs in the word, but in a different position
• Green box: 🟩: Letter and position are correct

So you can work your way up to the right term step by step. Here’s an example:

With the original and many adaptations, only one word can be guessed each day. This makes it possible to share the day’s progress with fellow players. On other sites, you can also play multiple times in a row.

Worldle – Guess Country Shapes

A slightly more sophisticated Wordle implementation is Worldle. The other day, a person played it in front of me on the plane. And as someone who has spent a lot of time with Geoguessr, I was immediately drawn to the game. Only the outline of a country is displayed here, which you then have to guess:

Well, do you know? In this case, I figured it out, at least on the third try. Luckily, there is a compass to help you. It shows in which direction – and how many kilometres away – the desired country is located:

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Flagle – Guess Flags

For those who spend less time looking at maps but more time, e.g. watching the world cup, you may be more familiar with the countries’ flags than their outline. In that case, you may enjoy playing flagle:

Statele – Guess US States

This one is for our readers from the US, or those who travel there often. Can you recognize each US state by its outline?

For, instance, which state is this?

Furthermore, there are 4 bonus rounds, where you can also test your knowledge of the state’s neighbouring states, capital, flag, and some facts about the state. By the way, the state in the picture is West Virginia.

Wheretaken – Guess Where the Photo is From

In this version, you’ll be shown a picture and have to guess where it was taken. There’s the original version, now called wheretaken classic, a new version and one that is limited to places in the US.

There are also some fun bonus rounds, where e.g. you’ll have to say which of the pictures was taken in a certain place and what the place is called.

Travle – Guess the Countries Between 2 Countries

With this one, instead of recognizing shapes or flags, you need to test your geographical knowledge and enter the nations located between two given countries. And to make things even more challenging, you get extra “points” for getting them in the right order, basically creating a path form country A to B.

Capitale – Guess Capital Cities

There’s a wordle alternative called countryle. While that one could make it on this list, its sister game Capitale is more unique, so we’ll focus on that one. Basically, you need to find a capital by being told if the capital you entered is on the correct continent, if the population roughly matches, same for the city’s surface area, how far away it is located and in which direction. Countryle is basically the same, but Hemisphere, Continent, Avg. Temperature, Population, and Direction are the “helping” factors. Usually, continent and direction will be the only really helpful ones.

Geodle – Guess the Country by Political/Demographic/Geographical Factors

Geodle is a bit like Countryle, but on a more difficult level. Here, you no longer get the distance and direction as helping factors. Instead, You get to know if the country you entered matches the continent, population, religion, government system, and average temperature of the nation, as well as if it’s also landlocked or not. So you’ll need a lot of knowledge to get this one right.

Geordle – Guess the Country & Capital like Playing Hangman

Remember playing hangman as a kid? Well, here’s your chance to play it again, in search of a country and its capital. Instead of drawing a stick figure trying to escape death by hanging, there are three red dots. If you guessed wrongly 6 times, you lost – and get shown 5 skulls, so someone probably did get hung in the background.

Conclusion

Though no longer as popular and trendy as before, these games can be a nice pass-time while you’re waiting for your train/plane or simply taking a break from work. And while the normal worldle is just a pass-time, you’ll even sharpen your geography skills with these – and maybe even discover a place that you’d like to travel to. When you do, we’ll have the right deal ready.