Guessopotamia
March 16, 2022 10:07 AM Subscribe
Globle! It's Wordle, but for globes. Well actually there's just one globe, and you have to guess a country. And it hasn't been bought by the New York Times. But the globe spins and it's 3D, and real snazzy! You get the idea. A game by @theAbeTrain.
“I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve traveled to. But first, I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won’t fall down.”
—Mitch Hedberg
“I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve traveled to. But first, I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won’t fall down.”
—Mitch Hedberg
This one was fun, better than yesterday's guess the one word from the English vocabulary. I got today's in four which seems like a lucky guess.
posted by St. Oops at 10:26 AM on March 16, 2022
posted by St. Oops at 10:26 AM on March 16, 2022
I enjoy this and also enjoy Worldle Which gives you a direction marker and distance.
On preview: jinx!
posted by Jon_Evil at 10:27 AM on March 16, 2022 [2 favorites]
On preview: jinx!
posted by Jon_Evil at 10:27 AM on March 16, 2022 [2 favorites]
Burgle, in which one guesses at famous thefts. Chortle, in which one guesses at soundbites of famous laughs. Throttle, for those who’re unenthusiastic about -le games.
posted by BlunderingArtist at 10:31 AM on March 16, 2022 [6 favorites]
posted by BlunderingArtist at 10:31 AM on March 16, 2022 [6 favorites]
I play both this and Worldle every day and my geography knowledge has really improved. One thing I don't like about Worldle: it also includes small territories, including uninhabited ones. I would have never gotten Bouvet Island in a million years... though I suppose now I could!
posted by thebots at 10:36 AM on March 16, 2022 [6 favorites]
posted by thebots at 10:36 AM on March 16, 2022 [6 favorites]
Greenland: Invalid Country Name
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posted by Going To Maine at 10:36 AM on March 16, 2022 [4 favorites]
:<
posted by Going To Maine at 10:36 AM on March 16, 2022 [4 favorites]
I've played Worldle as well, but I much prefer Globle. It feels more educational – if it's particularly obscure I might have to look up lists of countries to actually find the answer, but after playing it for a few weeks I can name way more countries than I used to, and I know where they are on a map.
Globle also seems more in keeping with the spirit of Wordle. With Worldle you can guess it on the first try if you recognize the shape, which is a different sort of game. But it's fun in a who's-that-Pokemon sort of way.
posted by oulipian at 10:38 AM on March 16, 2022 [6 favorites]
Globle also seems more in keeping with the spirit of Wordle. With Worldle you can guess it on the first try if you recognize the shape, which is a different sort of game. But it's fun in a who's-that-Pokemon sort of way.
posted by oulipian at 10:38 AM on March 16, 2022 [6 favorites]
I just tried this and also got the answer in four, which startled me because I didn't at first understand that my random guess in an opposite direction from my three prior wrong guesses was correct -- just that suddenly the game was over. It was definitely a lucky guess, although I was expecting the country to turn a darker red to let me know I was closer because logically it had to be closer.
posted by paisley sheep at 10:57 AM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by paisley sheep at 10:57 AM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
Has someone already done Wordlele, where you try to identify the Wordle variant?
posted by zamboni at 10:58 AM on March 16, 2022 [14 favorites]
posted by zamboni at 10:58 AM on March 16, 2022 [14 favorites]
This is fun. 13 tries on the first attempt. I kind of wish there were other hints, as with the letter placement in wordle. Maybe a distance or direction?
I also landed on Greenland and was annoyed.
posted by eotvos at 11:00 AM on March 16, 2022
I also landed on Greenland and was annoyed.
posted by eotvos at 11:00 AM on March 16, 2022
I just tried this and also got the answer in four, which startled me because I didn't at first understand that my random guess in an opposite direction from my three prior wrong guesses was correct -- just that suddenly the game was over. It was definitely a lucky guess, although I was expecting the country to turn a darker red to let me know I was closer because logically it had to be closer.
Same here -- I got green and couldn't understand how that guess could possibly be so wrong, since it was sandwiched between two very red countries. I like it (and worldle!) but the color scheme could use some tweaking.
I kind of wish there were other hints, as with the letter placement in wordle. Maybe a distance or direction
The color indicates distance -- the darker the red, the nearer you are.
posted by trig at 11:21 AM on March 16, 2022 [2 favorites]
Same here -- I got green and couldn't understand how that guess could possibly be so wrong, since it was sandwiched between two very red countries. I like it (and worldle!) but the color scheme could use some tweaking.
I kind of wish there were other hints, as with the letter placement in wordle. Maybe a distance or direction
The color indicates distance -- the darker the red, the nearer you are.
posted by trig at 11:21 AM on March 16, 2022 [2 favorites]
Does not appear to like my old-ish iPad. The page loads fine, but no countries show-up.
posted by Thorzdad at 11:40 AM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Thorzdad at 11:40 AM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
+1 for Worldle. We've also been playing Heardle and Framed.
thebots: I would have never gotten Bouvet Island in a million years... though I suppose now I could!
I got Bouvet Island — albeit on guess 6, and only by typing "island" in the country list and picking the most plausible name — and you better believe all my quizzing friends heard about it!
posted by Klipspringer at 11:56 AM on March 16, 2022 [4 favorites]
thebots: I would have never gotten Bouvet Island in a million years... though I suppose now I could!
I got Bouvet Island — albeit on guess 6, and only by typing "island" in the country list and picking the most plausible name — and you better believe all my quizzing friends heard about it!
posted by Klipspringer at 11:56 AM on March 16, 2022 [4 favorites]
Does not appear to like my old-ish iPad. The page loads fine, but no countries show-up.
We call this “challenge setting.”
posted by ricochet biscuit at 12:41 PM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
We call this “challenge setting.”
posted by ricochet biscuit at 12:41 PM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
See also: Tradle, where you guess a country based on a list of its major exports.
posted by kaibutsu at 12:46 PM on March 16, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by kaibutsu at 12:46 PM on March 16, 2022 [3 favorites]
(note: Tradle's big flaw is that clicking on an export often brings up info that includes a spoiler. Mousing over to see different exports is fine, though.)
posted by kaibutsu at 12:49 PM on March 16, 2022
posted by kaibutsu at 12:49 PM on March 16, 2022
By dumb chance I just got today's country in 1. Since I'll never top that, I think I'm set.
posted by meinvt at 1:02 PM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by meinvt at 1:02 PM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
I deliberately posted this on a day when it wasn't ridiculously difficult, but some of the recent ones have been really hard. When you can barely make out a tiny island on the map, the colour-coding clues don't work as well.
posted by oulipian at 1:07 PM on March 16, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by oulipian at 1:07 PM on March 16, 2022 [2 favorites]
This game has exposed the fact that I don't know how to spell Guatemala or Nicaragua and I don't like it.
posted by AlSweigart at 3:32 PM on March 16, 2022 [4 favorites]
posted by AlSweigart at 3:32 PM on March 16, 2022 [4 favorites]
I'm not sure if even the people cataloguing wordle-likes can keep up anymore. (My go-to list is Wordles of the World, but - as with the games themselves - there are many other lists available.)
posted by bigendian at 3:37 PM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by bigendian at 3:37 PM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
Try entering Tibet as a country in either game LOL.
posted by WhyamIhereagain at 4:07 PM on March 16, 2022
posted by WhyamIhereagain at 4:07 PM on March 16, 2022
I got to a place today that there were at least 6 countries that were red. Which way to go?
Much prefer Worldle, where you don't have to know how to spell all the stan's. And are told which way to go.
Although Bouvet Island really messed with me. South Africa-> go southwest; Antarctica-> go north; Saint Helena-> go south. South Georgia-> go east. What's there? Now I know.
I see there's a challenge mode where you can randomly rotate the map, or hide it.
posted by MtDewd at 4:34 PM on March 16, 2022
Much prefer Worldle, where you don't have to know how to spell all the stan's. And are told which way to go.
Although Bouvet Island really messed with me. South Africa-> go southwest; Antarctica-> go north; Saint Helena-> go south. South Georgia-> go east. What's there? Now I know.
I see there's a challenge mode where you can randomly rotate the map, or hide it.
posted by MtDewd at 4:34 PM on March 16, 2022
That was fun. I was lucky, and chose the right continent from the first. 7 guesses to Costa Rica.
posted by Goofyy at 5:09 PM on March 16, 2022
posted by Goofyy at 5:09 PM on March 16, 2022
Agree that the colour progression needs some work. I'm a veteran of the Secret Countries (and Blind Secret Countries) on Sporcle and was very confused to have a green country turn up next to a dark red one.
Now I need Capitalle and Flagle to put all my hard-earned, otherwise useless geographical trivia to use. Although I am a bit rusty on the flags.
posted by Athanassiel at 5:19 PM on March 16, 2022
Now I need Capitalle and Flagle to put all my hard-earned, otherwise useless geographical trivia to use. Although I am a bit rusty on the flags.
posted by Athanassiel at 5:19 PM on March 16, 2022
I'm a big Globle fan. I always start with Turkey. Lots of places to go from Turkey.
posted by hydropsyche at 6:27 PM on March 16, 2022
posted by hydropsyche at 6:27 PM on March 16, 2022
I like Worldle. I keep wishing it would show the size of the country in addition to the shape. Maybe that'd make it too easy though. To make it harder you could rotate the shape so it's not north-up.
posted by Nelson at 6:36 PM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Nelson at 6:36 PM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
@Nelson, if you click the gear, you can select "Randomly rotate country image."
posted by aneel at 8:22 PM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by aneel at 8:22 PM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
Now I need Capitalle and Flagle to put all my hard-earned, otherwise useless geographical trivia to use. Although I am a bit rusty on the flags.
Flaggle
posted by Advanced_Waffler at 9:39 PM on March 16, 2022 [2 favorites]
Flaggle
posted by Advanced_Waffler at 9:39 PM on March 16, 2022 [2 favorites]
:D :D :D
posted by Athanassiel at 10:09 PM on March 16, 2022
posted by Athanassiel at 10:09 PM on March 16, 2022
Wow, Flaggle is super hard. I don't think my brain is good at parsing the info it returns from partial matches, even with unlimited guesses.
posted by Athanassiel at 10:20 PM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Athanassiel at 10:20 PM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
Free Western Sahara! Stop Globle colonisation apologists!
posted by Meatbomb at 5:58 AM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Meatbomb at 5:58 AM on March 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
Flaggle is super hard
Always start with China, you can then easily find out if / where the target flag is red.
posted by Meatbomb at 6:17 AM on March 17, 2022
Always start with China, you can then easily find out if / where the target flag is red.
posted by Meatbomb at 6:17 AM on March 17, 2022
Mexico is a pretty good starter too.
posted by Happy Monkey at 8:47 AM on March 17, 2022
posted by Happy Monkey at 8:47 AM on March 17, 2022
The solution to the question Worldle or Globle? Why not both? I don't understand why everything needs a "best choice." Both are great puzzles and both challenge and teach you in different ways.
posted by zardoz at 3:37 PM on March 17, 2022
posted by zardoz at 3:37 PM on March 17, 2022
I like this a lot, and the couple that I've done have already improved my geographical awareness. It's kind of a bummer that it keeps the one per day restriction though. A practice mode would allow much quicker improvement and drilling.
posted by rollick at 8:56 AM on March 18, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by rollick at 8:56 AM on March 18, 2022 [1 favorite]
For Worldle, does anyone have a map that has just the text labels of countries in their approximate locations but no country boundaries? I want some help but having an actual map with shapes makes it far too easy.
I tried making one myself but it's remarkably tricky to match Worldle's list of what it counts as countries.
posted by Nelson at 9:29 AM on March 18, 2022
I tried making one myself but it's remarkably tricky to match Worldle's list of what it counts as countries.
posted by Nelson at 9:29 AM on March 18, 2022
Nelson, try googling "typography world map". This one's kinda fun!
posted by oulipian at 11:10 AM on March 18, 2022
posted by oulipian at 11:10 AM on March 18, 2022
Czech: Invalid Country Name
Czech Republic: Invalid Country Name
Macedonia: Invalid Country Name
Yugoslavia: Invalid Country Name (I know, I know, desperation)
Byeeeee!
Back to Worldle, which does substring matches. And has taught me so much about geography in just a couple weeks!
posted by intermod at 6:54 PM on March 20, 2022
Czech Republic: Invalid Country Name
Macedonia: Invalid Country Name
Yugoslavia: Invalid Country Name (I know, I know, desperation)
Byeeeee!
Back to Worldle, which does substring matches. And has taught me so much about geography in just a couple weeks!
posted by intermod at 6:54 PM on March 20, 2022
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