Capitalle

Capitalle is a daily geography game about naming the world's capital cities. Each day it picks one mystery capital, and you get six guesses to find it. Every wrong guess hands you clues: the distance to the target, an arrow pointing toward it, and how your guessed city compares by continent, language, and population.

What is Capitalle?

The core loop is quick to learn. You type a capital city, and if it is not the answer, Capitalle tells you how far your guess sits from the target and which direction to head. The distance is measured as the crow flies, a straight line between your guessed capital and the correct one. That much is familiar from distance-based geography games. What sets Capitalle apart is the extra layer of clues: alongside distance and direction, it shows whether your guessed city matches the target on continent, on language, and on population bracket. Those comparisons let you narrow the field without leaning on map distance alone, so a guess on the wrong continent still teaches you something useful about the answer.

The puzzle is the same for everyone on a given day. One capital is chosen, it stays fixed until the next daily reset, and every player works the same target, which makes comparing results with friends easy. When you finish you can share a result grid that shows how many tries it took without spoiling the answer. If you would rather not wait a day between puzzles, a free practice mode at capitalle.app/practice lets you play unlimited rounds.

Capitalle is less a single game than a small hub of daily geography puzzles under one name. The capital-guessing game is the main draw, but the site bundles seven siblings: Brandle (guess the brand logo), Travle (route between countries), Earthle (guess a country from its outline), HowMany (guess a city's population from a satellite view), GeoLink (a geography take on connections puzzles), Ranke (order five countries by a daily statistic), and Duello (pick which of two countries ranks higher). That makes it a place to string together a handful of short daily challenges rather than a one-off. The project comes from an indie developer who introduced it in a Show HN post as a daily world capital guessing game built to run entirely client-side with no back end.

There is a paid tier called Capitalle Plus, priced at $29 per year, that adds archive access to past puzzles, a stats dashboard, streak insurance, and a hard mode across all eight bundled games. Each game's hard mode strips out one of its helpers; in Capitalle itself the hard mode removes the direction arrow, so you work from distance alone. The free daily game and the free practice mode cover the essentials, so the subscription is aimed at players who want to replay old puzzles and track longer-term stats. The overall feel is calm and low-pressure: a short, self-contained brain teaser you can clear in a couple of minutes before moving on to the next puzzle in the set.

How to play Capitalle

1. Open Capitalle at capitalle.app and start the daily puzzle.
2. Type the name of a capital city as your first guess.
3. Read the feedback after a wrong guess: the distance to the target, a directional arrow, and whether continent, language, and population match.
4. Use those clues to narrow down which capital fits, then enter your next guess.
5. Keep refining across your six guesses until you name the correct capital or run out of tries.
6. Share your result grid and come back after the daily reset for a new capital, or use the free practice mode for extra rounds.

Tips and strategy

• Lead with a well-known capital near the center of a large region so the first distance and arrow give you broad direction to work from.
• Treat the continent match as a coarse filter: a mismatch there rules out a whole part of the map before you even weigh distance.
• Use the language clue to separate capitals that sit close together geographically but belong to different linguistic regions.
• Let the population bracket break ties between two candidates that are similar in distance and direction.
• Follow the arrow and the shrinking distance together; a guess that is closer but points a new direction usually means you overshot.
• Practice unlimited rounds at capitalle.app/practice to build a mental map of where capitals sit before tackling the daily puzzle.

Good to know

Category

Geography (world capitals)

Guesses

6 per daily puzzle

Clues

Distance, direction arrow, continent, language, population

Resets

Daily, same capital for every player

Cost

Free; optional Capitalle Plus at $29/year

Modes

Daily, free unlimited practice, hard mode via Plus

Bundle

Eight daily games (Capitalle plus seven siblings)

Creator

Indie developer (introduced via a Show HN post)

Platform

Browser, no download; runs client-side

Capitalle FAQ

Is Capitalle free?

Yes. The daily capital puzzle and a practice mode at capitalle.app/practice are free to play in the browser with no download. There is an optional paid tier, Capitalle Plus at $29 per year, that adds archive access, a stats dashboard, streak insurance, and a hard mode across the bundled games.

How do you play Capitalle?

You have six guesses to name the day's mystery world capital. After each wrong guess the game shows the distance to the target, a directional arrow, and whether your guessed city matches the target on continent, language, and population, which you use to close in on the answer.

When does Capitalle reset, and can I play old puzzles?

A new capital puzzle appears each day and is the same for every player. Access to past puzzles is offered through the paid Capitalle Plus tier, while the free practice mode lets you play unlimited rounds anytime.

Is Capitalle like Wordle?

It shares the six-guess daily format and the shareable result grid, but the subject is world capital cities rather than words. It also adds richer clues than a typical guessing game, comparing your city's distance, direction, continent, language, and population to the target.

What other games are on the site?

Capitalle is the capital-guessing game at the center of a set of eight daily geography puzzles. The siblings include Brandle (brand logos), Travle (routes between countries), Earthle (guess a country from its outline), HowMany (population guessing), GeoLink (a geography connections puzzle), Ranke (order countries by a statistic), and Duello (which country ranks higher).

Who made Capitalle?

It comes from an indie developer who introduced it in a Show HN post as a daily world capital guessing game built to run entirely client-side with no back end. A specific name has not been confirmed.