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> s it just guessing the country name based on the shape Yes, and you get hints on distance and direction when wrong.
by Galanwe 5y ago
> s it just guessing the country name based on the shape
Yes, and you get hints on distance and direction when wrong.
- numlock86 5y agoHow can you get it wrong, though? You are basically presented the solution. It's like if Wordle would show you the picture of a tiger and asks for the word "TIGER". And if you don't recognize a country by it's borders and just take a wild guess, something like "you are 5000km off!" probably won't help you much anyway, which is apparently what you are getting shown on a wrong guess according to comments here.
- Galanwe 5y agoNot everyone knows the exact shape of every country.
- afterburner 5y agoThe real problem is there's only 195 countries.
- Moru 5y agoAnd some of them have VERY distinct shapes or locations.
- TuringTest 5y agoIn that case, it will be a good game for at least 195 days
- afterburner 5y agoNo, the problem is much worse than that. Wordle has you drawing from a pool of 12000 possible 5-letter words to guess from a pool of 2500 answers. Compare this to drawing from 195 countries to guess 195 countries.
- xigoi 5y agoOn a wrong guess, it tells you the distance and the direction.
- ghaff 5y agoThere are a ton of countries and territories in places like Africa and the Pacific Ocean that many/most people don't know what they look like and have, at best, a vague notion of their location and may not even recall their name unaided.