Worldle Unlimited

You see the outline of one country or territory, drawn with north at the top and nothing around it. Type a country or territory, pick it from the list and press Guess. Every guess is placed on a distance ladder and added to a dial that points toward the answer, so you can narrow it down. Name it and the game is won; run out of guesses and the answer is shown under the outline. Press Next puzzle for a new outline, as often as you like.

Easy gives 8 guesses and picks from the 60 most populous countries, and it prints the continent on the board. Medium gives 6 guesses and picks from 118 larger, well-populated countries. Hard gives 6 guesses and picks from all 181 countries and territories with an outline you can recognise. On every level you may guess any of the 238 in the game. Hint costs no guess: it gives the continent (Medium and Hard), then the first letter, then the number of letters.

Distance is the straight-line distance over the Earth between a point in the middle of your guess and a point in the middle of the answer, rounded to 10 km, with miles in brackets. The arrow on the dial is the way to head from your guess toward the answer, as one of eight compass points. The percentage says how close you are: 100% is the answer itself, and it falls toward 0% the farther away you are.

It is 100 minus the distance as a share of 20,037 km, rounded to a whole number. 20,037 km is half the way around the Earth, the farthest apart two places can be, so 0% would mean the opposite side of the planet. For example, a guess of Germany when the answer is Spain is 1,580 km away, which is 92%. Only the answer itself shows 100%.

Distance is measured between the middle points of two countries, not between their borders. A country’s middle point sits well inside it, so even neighbours are a good way apart: Spain and Portugal show 410 km (260 mi), and Spain and France 880 km (550 mi). Use the arrow as much as the number.

Yes. Press Next puzzle for another outline at the same level, with no sign-up and no daily limit. Easy draws from 60 countries, Medium from 118 and Hard from 181, and the ones you played most recently are skipped. Switch to Daily if you would rather have the one country everybody gets today at each level.

No. The Dles is an independent site. We wrote this version ourselves, with our own look, our own levels and a new outline every time you press Next, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the original game’s makers.

According to the game’s own About page and the maker’s team page, the original was made by Antoine Teuf, a web and video game developer, and began in early January 2022. It is a different game from this one, which was written separately for this site.

Six, as the original’s own page shows, and it sets one country a day. This version gives 6 guesses on Medium and Hard and 8 on Easy, and you can keep playing after you finish.

The outlines are drawn from Natural Earth, a public-domain map dataset, simplified so each one stays small and quick to load. Each country is drawn around its own middle point, with x and y at the same scale so nothing is stretched. Far-away overseas territories are left out so the outline is the one you would recognise: France is the mainland plus Corsica, and the United States is the 48 states joined together. Names, middle points and continents come from the same dataset.

You can guess any of the 238 countries and territories in the game, but an outline needs to be recognisable to make a fair puzzle. The 57 places left out of the answers, such as islands under 500 square kilometres or groups too scattered to read as one shape, only ever appear in the guess list. Answers on Hard come from the other 181.