Citydle

Citydle gives you six tries to name the day's mystery city. After each guess it tells you how far off you are and which direction to head, then colors the result to show whether you at least landed the right continent or country. One city is chosen each day, and everyone plays the same one.

What is Citydle?

Citydle is a daily city-guessing game built in the Worldle mold. The target is usually a major city or a world capital, and your job is to name it within six attempts. You type a city, press Enter, and the game responds with the distance between your guess and the answer plus a compass arrow that points from your guess toward the target. That distance and direction pairing is the core of the game: a guess far to the west with an arrow pointing east tells you to look east of wherever you tried.

On top of the distance and direction, Citydle adds color-coded feedback that narrows things down by region. Grey means your guess was on the wrong continent and in the wrong country. Orange means you found the right continent but the wrong country. Yellow means you are in the correct country but not the correct city, with a directional hint to nudge you closer. Green means you got it. That tiered scale is what sets Citydle apart from plainer distance games: you are not only measuring how close you are in kilometers, you are also learning whether you are in the right part of the world at all.

This also sets it apart from country-guessing games. Worldle, for instance, shows a country silhouette and asks you to name the country. Citydle asks for a city, so knowing the general region is only the first step; you still have to pick the right city inside the right country. Aggregator reviews describe a second mode alongside the shared daily puzzle, an unlimited or practice mode that generates a fresh curated city as soon as you finish a round, which is handy if one puzzle a day is not enough.

The core loop is quick and easy to read. Start anywhere you like, read the distance and arrow, move in the direction it points, and use the color to confirm whether you are in the right country before you fuss over the exact city. The game is free to play at citydle.com and runs in the browser with no download. Some details, like the exact daily reset time and whether past puzzles are archived, are not clearly documented, so treat those as open questions rather than promises.

How to play Citydle

1. Open Citydle at citydle.com in your browser.
2. Type any city name into the guess box and press Enter to lock it in.
3. Read the distance and the compass arrow, then aim your next guess in the direction the arrow points.
4. Watch the color of each guess: grey means wrong continent and country, orange means right continent, yellow means right country, green means correct.
5. Keep refining your guesses until you turn the result green or run out of your six attempts.
6. Come back the next day for a new mystery city, or use the unlimited practice mode to keep playing right away.

Tips and strategy

• Open with a guess in a well-known central location so the first distance and arrow cover as much ground as possible.
• Read the color before the distance: if a guess turns orange or yellow, you have confirmed the region, so focus your next tries inside it.
• Follow the compass arrow literally. It points from your guess toward the answer, so move that way rather than guessing at random.
• Use the distance number to gauge how big a jump to make. Thousands of kilometers means a whole other region; a few hundred means a nearby city.
• Once a guess turns yellow you are in the right country, so switch to naming its major cities and capital rather than crossing borders.
• Lean on capitals and large cities early, since the target tends to be a prominent city and those names are the most likely to score a hit.

Good to know

Category

Geography, city guessing

Cost

Free

Guesses

6 per day

Resets

Daily, one shared city for everyone

Modes

Daily puzzle plus an unlimited practice mode (per aggregator reviews)

Feedback

Distance, compass direction, and color-coded continent/country/city hints

Platform

Browser, no download

Archive

Not confirmed

Citydle FAQ

Is Citydle free?

Yes. You can play Citydle for free in your browser at citydle.com with no download required.

How do you play Citydle?

Guess the day's mystery city in up to six tries. Each guess shows the distance and a compass direction toward the answer, plus a color that tells you whether you got the right continent, country, or city.

When does Citydle reset?

Citydle offers a new city each day, and every player gets the same daily puzzle. The exact reset time and timezone are not clearly documented on the site.

Is Citydle like Wordle?

It borrows Wordle's six-guess daily format but focuses on geography. Instead of letters, it gives distance, direction, and color-coded region hints, which makes it closer to Worldle than to the word game.

Who made Citydle?

The creator is not confirmed by a first-party source. Several game aggregators attribute Citydle to Sasha Slutsker, but that is not stated on the game's own site, so treat the attribution as unconfirmed.