Departle

Departle is a daily airport guessing game from Ladle Games, a small studio that also makes Reciple and Bonkle. Each day it puts up one departure board, numbered from board #1 on 22 October 2026, and every player gets the same one. The board is a snapshot of real departures from one airport: times, destinations, flight numbers, gates and remarks such as boarding, delayed or gate closed.

The board is shown in the airport's own language. On 12 November 2026 the headings read "出発" and the remarks were in Japanese, while the board from 22 October was in Russian. A Translate switch prints English under each line. You can turn it off to read the local script alone, and if you keep it off the whole game your shared result says "no translation".

You type an airport, city, country or three-letter code. Each wrong guess shows the straight-line distance to the answer, an arrow pointing toward it and a closeness percentage. It also unlocks one clue in turn: the region, the country, the first letter of the code and then the city. Five guesses are all you get.

The destinations do much of the work. A board full of flights to Tokyo, Naha and Seoul narrows the map fast, and the airlines and flight numbers help too. The flip-board look, with its letters on split tiles, works the same on a phone as on a desktop.

Beyond the daily there is an archive of every earlier board and a practice mode with boards from airports that are never a daily answer. Neither counts toward your statistics or streak. Progress is kept in your browser, there is no sign-up, and you can ask for a daily reminder. It suits people who travel, people who watch flight boards in terminals, and players of map games who want a different kind of clue.