Countryle

Countryle appeared in the spring of 2022, part of the run of country guessing games that followed Wordle and Worldle. It is played in the browser, and its settings offer English, Spanish, Catalan, French, German and Portuguese.

You start by typing any country and picking it from the list. The game lays out a row of clues comparing your choice with the hidden country. Hemisphere and continent either match or they do not. Average temperature and population are compared as numbers, and a compass point shows where the answer lies from your guess. Each box is green when it matches, orange when it is close and red when it is far off, and number clues carry an arrow saying whether the hidden country's figure is higher or lower. You keep guessing until you find it, or give up and see the answer.

That makes Countryle less about recognising shapes and more about deduction. A guess that is in the right hemisphere with a much smaller population and a colder climate rules out a large part of the map at once. A Creative mode lets you build your own puzzle for friends from a longer list of clues, including GDP per person, coastline length, highest mountain, CO2 emissions and even the men's football team's FIFA ranking.

It suits players who like numbers and trivia as much as maps, and who enjoy working down a list of possibilities rather than guessing by sight. Statistics and a personal map of countries you have found keep track of your progress.