Higher or Lower
Pick which country has the higher stat.
Higher/Lower is a daily geography game built around a simple question: given two countries and one statistic, which one is higher? The statistic changes every round, population one time, GDP the next, life expectancy after that, so you are never just memorizing one ranking. Each daily puzzle has five rounds, you get one attempt per day, and there is no playing again once you are done.
What is Higher or Lower?
Higher/Lower takes the classic higher-or-lower comparison format and applies it strictly to countries. Each round shows two countries and names a single statistic. The site's examples include population, GDP, area, life expectancy, UN membership year, coffee consumption per capita, FIFA ranking, McDonald's locations, World Happiness Report ranking, and internet speed. You tap the country you think has the higher value and work through all five rounds. The daily puzzle only runs once per day, and the site is explicit about this: you get one attempt per day, and there is no play again for the daily puzzle.
One thing that keeps Higher/Lower from being a total guessing game is how the country pairs are chosen. The site states that ratios between the two values are kept between 1.05x and 3.0x, close enough that you cannot always rely on obvious size stereotypes, but far enough apart that a real difference exists. Your score out of five earns a rank: 5 out of 5 is Geographic Genius, 4 is World Expert, 3 is Globe Trotter, 2 is Map Reader, and 1 or 0 is Lost in Space. Beyond the daily puzzle there is also a separate Levels mode with 276 levels across four variants, Classic, New Stats, World Records, and what the site calls the brutal Podium challenge, so you can keep playing outside the one-a-day format.
Higher/Lower is made by Stoop, which publishes a family of free daily browser games under the stoop.games domain, including DailyGuessr, FlagGuessr, CocktailGuessr, Palette, Bloom, Sortl, and Duckt. The game does not carry an individual creator's name, just the Stoop branding in the footer alongside a Ko-fi link for anyone who wants to support the project.
There is no account system and no server-side leaderboard. The site states there is no account, no subscription, and no ads, and that your streak and results are stored locally in your browser, with nothing sent to a server. After finishing the daily you can share a spoiler-free result card with friends, similar in spirit to how Wordle results get shared, without giving away the actual countries or statistics. The overall feel is minimal and quiet: five quick comparisons, a score out of five, and a rank.
How to play Higher or Lower
- Open Higher/Lower at higher.stoop.games.
- Read the two countries shown and the statistic named for that round, such as population or GDP.
- Tap the country you think has the higher value for that statistic.
- Work through all five rounds in that day's puzzle. You get one attempt per day, with no replay of the daily once you finish.
- Check your rank, which runs from Lost in Space at 0 or 1 correct up to Geographic Genius at 5 out of 5.
- Optionally share your spoiler-free result card, or switch to Levels mode for 276 extra rounds across four variants.
Tips and strategy
- Do not assume the more populous country automatically wins every statistic. GDP, life expectancy, and area rankings often diverge sharply from population rankings.
- Remember that pairs are deliberately chosen with a ratio between 1.05x and 3.0x, so the answer is rarely a landslide-obvious pick. Treat close calls as genuinely close.
- For area rounds, think in terms of total territory rather than population density. A country can feel small culturally but be enormous by land.
- For niche statistics like McDonald's locations or FIFA ranking, lean on what you know about a country's development, tourism, or footballing tradition rather than raw size.
- Play the daily first while your mind is fresh, then use the Levels mode afterward if you want more reps on a specific variant like World Records or Podium.
- Since there is no archive and only one attempt per day, slow down and reason through each comparison rather than guessing quickly. You cannot retry today's puzzle.
Good to know
- Category
- Geography
- Resets
- New puzzle every midnight UTC
- Cost
- Free, no account, no subscription, no ads
- Guesses
- Five rounds per day, one attempt per day
- Modes
- Daily mode plus a Levels mode (276 levels across Classic, New Stats, World Records, and Podium)
- Ranks
- Score out of five maps to ranks from Lost in Space up to Geographic Genius
- Archive
- No past-puzzle archive found on the site
- Creator
- Stoop
Higher or Lower FAQ
Is Higher/Lower free to play?
Yes. The site states there is no account, no subscription, and no ads.
How do you play Higher/Lower?
Each round shows two countries and one statistic, like population or GDP. You tap the country you think has the higher value. There are five rounds in the daily puzzle and you get one attempt per day.
Does Higher/Lower have an archive of past puzzles?
No archive was found on the site. The site says there is no play again for the daily puzzle, so each day is a one-shot experience.
Is Higher/Lower like Wordle?
It follows the same daily, one-attempt-per-day format as Wordle, with a spoiler-free shareable result card, but the content is entirely different. It is a geography and statistics comparison game rather than a word-guessing game.
Who made Higher/Lower?
It is made by Stoop, which publishes a family of free daily browser games under the stoop.games domain, including DailyGuessr, FlagGuessr, and CocktailGuessr.