BORDLE

BORDLE is a browser game about recognising countries by their borders. Instead of a full map silhouette, the daily country starts as a simplified outline with only five vertices, which usually looks like nothing in particular. Island nations are harder still: the island country on 23 October 2026 opened as a single dot on an empty board.

You type a country name, and the autocomplete previews the outline of each candidate so you can compare it with the board before you commit. A wrong guess sharpens the shape, and each step adds more vertices than the last: 5, 7, 9, 12, 16, 22, 30, 41, 55, 74, 100 and then the full outline. Each guess is listed with a small outline of the country you named and an accuracy figure for how closely its shape matches the answer, so a neighbour of a similar shape can score above 90%. Your score is simply how many guesses you needed, and after a solve the game tells you what share of that day's solvers you beat.

The daily puzzle is the same for everyone on a given date and changes with the date on your device. The game works through its list of 187 countries in a fixed order, so the same country returns after 187 days. Results, streaks and a guess distribution are saved in your browser, with no account. The archive lists the last 187 days to replay, Unlimited serves random countries, and a test mode lets you play any country you name without touching your stats. Outlines come from geoBoundaries.

Compared with Worldle and other outline games, BORDLE begins from a much coarser shape and reveals detail in fixed steps rather than giving distance or direction hints, so it rewards a sense of a country's overall proportions. It suits players who already know their maps and want a harder start.