Neighborle
Name a country's neighbors to find it.
Neighborle names one country each day and asks a single question: which countries border it? You pick every neighbor from a dropdown, working through the list before your lives run out. It is a test of adjacency, the kind of map knowledge that answers how one country connects to the ones around it.
What is Neighborle?
The core loop is straightforward but not easy. Each day the game shows one country or territory on a map, and you select every country that borders it. Two places count as neighbors when they share a land border or are joined by a bridge, so a pick is not always about touching soil. You start with five lives, which means you can afford up to four mistakes before the round ends. Every wrong pick costs a life, and the pressure grows as the pool of neighbors you might still be missing gets harder to recall.
What sets Neighborle apart from other map games is its focus on adjacency rather than shape, distance, or routing. Worldle shows a country silhouette and asks you to name it. Travle asks you to build a route between two countries. Neighborle fixes one country per day and tasks you with naming all of its direct neighbors, which rewards a different kind of knowledge: knowing not just where a country sits but exactly who it touches. On top of that it adds a lives-based hint and an optional hidden-borders hard mode, so the same daily puzzle can be played at more than one difficulty.
The hint is a genuine tradeoff rather than a free pass. Requesting a hint narrows the search to four options with one correct neighbor among them, but asking for it costs one life, and if you then pick the wrong option from those four you lose another life. A settings gear lets you hide the borders on the map for players who want the added challenge of working from memory alone. Beyond the single daily world puzzle there are unlimited country-specific regional variants for Brazil, France, Germany, Great Britain, and the USA, plus a flags variant, so there is more to play once the daily is done.
Feedback is tracked as you go. Your progress is measured against the target country's total neighbor count alongside your life counter, so you always know how many neighbors remain and how much room for error you have left. A local statistics tracker records your Played and Won totals, your current Winning Streak, and your Longest Streak, and a share button lets you post your result when you finish. A new country becomes available at midnight in your local timezone. The game is free to play and supported by ads through NitroPay, with no paywall observed on the live site.
How to play Neighborle
- Open Neighborle at neighborle.com to load the day's puzzle.
- Read the named country or territory highlighted on the map.
- Select every country that borders it from the dropdown, counting a shared land border or a bridge connection as a neighbor.
- Watch your life counter: you begin with five lives, so up to four wrong picks are allowed before the round ends.
- Use the optional hint to narrow the field to four options with one true neighbor, but only when the one-life cost is worth it.
- Open the settings gear to hide the borders on the map if you want the harder mode, then share your result when you finish.
Tips and strategy
- Start with the neighbors you are certain of. Locking in obvious borders first preserves lives for the harder edges of the country.
- Count as you go. The game shows how many neighbors the target has, so use that number to know when you still have picks left to find.
- Remember that a bridge can make two places neighbors, so do not rule out a connection just because water sits between them.
- Save the hint for when you are genuinely stuck. It costs a life to request and another if you misfire, so it is best spent when you have narrowed the field yourself.
- Watch for small or enclosed neighbors that are easy to forget, like landlocked states tucked between larger ones.
- Practice with the regional variants for Brazil, France, Germany, Great Britain, and the USA to sharpen adjacency knowledge before the daily world puzzle.
Good to know
- Category
- Geography
- Guesses
- 5 lives (up to 4 mistakes)
- Resets
- Daily at midnight local time
- Cost
- Free, ad-supported via NitroPay
- Modes
- Daily world puzzle, regional variants (Brazil, France, Germany, Great Britain, USA), and a flags variant
- Feedback
- Neighbor-count progress, life counter, and Played/Won/Streak stats
- Archive
- No dedicated past-puzzle archive found on the live site
- Platform
- Web browser
Neighborle FAQ
Is Neighborle free?
Yes. Neighborle is free to play. It is supported by ads through NitroPay, and no paywall was observed on the live site.
How do you play Neighborle?
The game names one country each day and you select every country that borders it from a dropdown. Two places count as neighbors when they share a land border or are joined by a bridge. You have five lives, so you can make up to four mistakes before the round ends.
When does Neighborle reset?
A new country becomes available at midnight in your local timezone, giving one main daily puzzle per day. No dedicated archive of past daily puzzles was found on the live site.
Is Neighborle like Wordle?
It shares the daily-puzzle format, but instead of guessing a word it asks you to name all the neighbors of one country. It is closer in spirit to map games like Worldle, though it tests adjacency rather than a country's shape or distance.
Who made Neighborle?
The creator and launch year are not stated on the live site, so they cannot be confirmed here.