World Clue

About World Clue

World Clue is aimed at geography nerds and data enthusiasts. The daily game sets three mystery countries in a row. The first is easy and gives you three rounds of clues, the second is medium with four, and the last is hard with five. Each round reveals more data about the country, and you narrow your guess by region, sub-region and finally the country itself. Giving up on a country scores nothing for it.

The clues are numbers and facts from public country datasets, and some come with a hint of how revealing they usually are; an extreme world ranking can make a number easier to place. On the medium and hard countries, a bonus challenge may appear in the first and third rounds, such as a continent bet, finding an extreme or a top-ten list. Each daily game also lets you unlock one distribution map for a clue, to see how the value spreads across the world.

You can resume an unfinished daily later the same day. Missed days can be played in archive mode, which still earns season points with a 50-point deduction. A leaderboard, a practice mode with custom country pools, and a country and data explorer round it out. It suits players who like Worldle or Globle but want to reason from statistics rather than shapes.

How to play World Clue

1. Press Play Daily to start with the easy country.
2. Read the clues for the first round and submit a guess.
3. Narrow your answer by region and sub-region as more clues appear over the rounds.
4. Take on bonus challenges when they appear for extra points.
5. Finish all three countries, then share your result and check the leaderboard.

Tips

• Use the region and sub-region feedback to rule out large parts of the map early.
• Extreme rankings, such as the largest or smallest, are often the most revealing clues.
• Save your one distribution map for a clue you cannot place.

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