Citydle

Citydle is a daily geography game in the style of Wordle, but the answer is a city rather than a word. Each day there is one mystery city, the same for every player, and you have six guesses to name it. You pick each guess from a list of cities as you type; the answers tend to be larger cities and world capitals.

After each guess the game spells the city out in tiles and tells you how far it is from the target, in miles or, with a setting, kilometres. The tiles are grey when the guess is on the wrong continent, orange when the continent is right but the country is not, yellow when you are in the right country, and green when you have found the city. An arrow beside each guess points from it toward the answer, so a few guesses are usually enough to close in.

The day's city follows a fixed list of 463 cities, counted from the game's start on 25 April 2023, so a city comes back only after well over a year. When the round ends, a statistics card shows your streak, a guess distribution, a countdown to the next city and a short fact about the answer with a Google Maps link, and a Share button copies your result. There is a high-contrast colour mode too.

Citydle was created by Sasha Slutsker, who also makes Anything Ranker, and is openly inspired by Wordle. It suits players who like world geography and want a short daily map puzzle in place of letters. It plays in a browser on a desktop or a phone, with no account and no ads.