Geordle
Geordle is a Wordle-style geography game where you guess a hidden country and its capital by picking letters one at a time, with five lives standing in for a fixed guess count.
Geordle turns the Wordle formula into a two-part geography puzzle: guess a country and its capital city by tapping letters on an on-screen keyboard instead of typing whole words. Instead of a fixed number of guesses, the daily puzzle gives players five lives, and each wrong letter costs one. A separate Practice mode uses the same rules but lets you play as many rounds as you want.
What is Geordle?
Geordle's daily puzzle hides a country and its capital city behind blank tiles. Rather than typing a full guess, players click letters on an on-screen keyboard one at a time. Any letter that appears in the country or capital lights up in green in its spot; any letter that does not appear costs one of five lives, shown as red circles at the top of the screen. Solve both the country and the capital before the lives run out, and the lives you have left convert into stars, up to five per day. Run out of lives first, and the puzzle ends for the day. A new Geordle is available each day, and a rules popup with worked examples explains the letter placement before you start.
The letter-by-letter, life-based format is what separates Geordle from most other geography spinoffs of Wordle. Geodle asks players to identify a mystery country from attribute clues like continent and population, Worldle shows a country's silhouette and scores guesses by distance and direction, and Globle colors in a heatmap of how close each guessed country is to the answer. Geordle skips silhouettes and heatmaps entirely and ties the puzzle to a life total instead, closer to a hangman-style reveal than a row-by-row guess. Note that some other sites also use the Geordle name for different games, including a five-letter word guesser, so the version described here is the one at sank0403.github.io.
Beyond the daily puzzle, Geordle has a Practice mode, reachable through a Try a different puzzle link, that keeps the same country-and-capital, letter-at-a-time rules but gives unlimited attempts and can be played multiple times a day. Practice attempts are timed, and each life lost adds a five-second penalty to your time, so careless letter picks still carry a cost. The game is hosted on GitHub Pages under the account sank0403, and the site lists a contact email, [email protected], for feedback or questions. The creator's real name is not published on the site.
After finishing a puzzle, Geordle shows a stats screen, including a star distribution, with a copy-to-clipboard share function similar to Wordle's own share grid, plus links to the game's Facebook and Twitter pages. No ads are visible on the pages, and the only monetization is an optional Buy Me a Coffee donation link. The page also links to TENIZ, a tennis-themed game hosted on its own GitHub Pages site. The overall feel is small and single-purpose: one geography puzzle a day, a practice mode to fill the rest of the time, and nothing else competing for attention on the page.
How to play Geordle
- Open Geordle at sank0403.github.io.
- Look at the blank tiles for the hidden country and its capital city.
- Click letters on the on-screen keyboard one at a time to test them.
- Watch your five lives, shown as red circles: each wrong letter costs one life.
- Fill in every letter of both the country and capital before your lives run out to solve the day's puzzle.
- For extra rounds, use the Try a different puzzle link to open Practice mode, which follows the same rules with unlimited attempts.
Tips and strategy
- Every wrong letter costs a life, so pick letters you are fairly confident about rather than guessing at random.
- Use the length and pattern of the blank tiles to narrow down candidate countries and capitals before committing to a letter.
- Try common letters like a, e, n, r, and s first, since they turn up in many country and capital names and are less likely to waste a life.
- Practice mode attempts are timed, and each lost life adds a five-second penalty, so accuracy matters there too.
- Practice mode can be replayed multiple times a day, so use it to get comfortable with the format before spending your one daily attempt.
- Copy your stats after finishing a puzzle if you want to share or compare your result with others.
Good to know
- Category
- Geography
- Modes
- Daily puzzle plus a Practice mode with unlimited, timed attempts
- Resets
- Daily, a new puzzle each day
- Cost
- Free, no ads, optional donation link
- Archive
- No archive of past puzzles found on the site
- Creator
- GitHub user sank0403
- Sharing
- Copy-stats button plus links to the game's Facebook and Twitter pages
- Platform
- Web browser (GitHub Pages)
Geordle FAQ
Is Geordle free to play?
Yes. Geordle is free with no ads, though the site has an optional Buy Me a Coffee donation link for supporters.
How do you play Geordle?
You click letters on an on-screen keyboard to fill in a hidden country and its capital city. Correct letters light up in green in place, and each wrong letter costs one of your five lives.
When does Geordle reset, and is there an archive?
A new puzzle is available each day. No archive of past puzzles is visible on the site, but the separate Practice mode can be replayed multiple times a day.
Is Geordle like Wordle?
It borrows Wordle's daily-puzzle and share-your-stats format, but instead of typing full word guesses in rows, you reveal letters one at a time and work against a five-life total, closer to hangman than to Wordle's tile grid.
Who made Geordle?
It is built and hosted by a GitHub user going by sank0403, who lists [email protected] as a contact email. No corporate publisher is listed.