Globle

Globle on DLE HQ is an unlimited geography round: one mystery country, as many guesses as you need, and a new country the moment you find it. The board in the frame is called Waymark. It is an unofficial fan-made game, not affiliated with Globle, and it does not reuse that game’s map, colours, or code. You type a country from a bundled list of 194, and each wrong guess reports kilometres between centre points, an eight-point compass arrow, and a colour from ice to ember. Play again starts another country at once.

People who like daily games like Wordle often want that same tight loop in another subject. A word puzzle spends six guesses on letters. Waymark spends as many guesses as you like on the map. DLE HQ runs an unlimited version on purpose: there is no puzzle of the day and no account. The skill is ordinary geography, and you can practice it without an atlas open beside you.

How to Play Globle

1. Look at the Waymark board in the frame. The guess box stays at the top while the list of tries scrolls underneath.
2. Type a country. Suggestions come only from the bundled list, including common aliases such as UK, USA, Turkey, or Czech Republic. Pick a row or press Enter.
3. Read the new row at the top of the log. It shows the distance in kilometres, an arrow with a compass abbreviation such as NE, and a colour that marks how close that centre point is.
4. Guess again in the direction the arrow indicates. There is no cap on the number of guesses, and a repeat of a country already in the log is refused.
5. When the country is found, the round stops and the row reads found at 0 km. Press Play again for a different mystery country.

Play free online with no download

Nothing is installed. On a computer, click the box and type. Arrow keys move through suggestions, Enter submits, and Escape closes the list. On a phone the box is a normal text field. A name that is not on the list does not add a row. Refreshing clears the guesses on screen and starts another country. The solved count on this device stays.

Globle Rules and Tips

Waymark is the game behind this Globle page. One country is hidden, and you guess until you name it. Distance is the great-circle kilometres between listed centre points, not the gap between borders, so neighbours can still sit a few hundred kilometres apart. The arrow points from the guessed centre toward the mystery centre and snaps to north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, or northwest. The winning row shows 0 km and the word found, with no invented direction.

• One mystery country per round, chosen at random from 194 countries. Recent countries are less likely to return immediately.
• Guesses are unlimited. The round ends only when the country is named.
• A guess must match a name or alias on the list. Anything else is refused and does not use a turn, because there is no turn limit to spend.
• The same country cannot be entered twice in one round.
• The newest guess is inserted at the top of the log.
• Under 400 km the colour is ember, labelled very close. Under 1,200 km it is clay, labelled close. Under 3,000 km it is brass, labelled mid range. Under 6,500 km it is slate, labelled far. At 6,500 km or more it is ice, labelled very far.
• The first guess is marked first guess. From the second guess on, the row says warmer when the new distance is shorter than the previous guess, colder when it is longer, and same distance when the two distances match. That word is separate from the colour.
• Play again starts a new round immediately. There is no daily country and no waiting period.
• Solved on this device counts rounds you finish. It stays in local storage in this browser only.

Unlimited guesses on every round

Unlimited means the guess list can grow until the country is found, and the next country is ready the moment this one is. A refresh does not record a solve. Play again records the solve, then hides a different country. There is no six-guess failure, because a miss is only a bearing.

Start wide, then tighten

Open with a large country so the first arrow can lock a hemisphere. Brazil, Russia, China, Canada, the United States, and Australia sit far apart. If Brazil comes back ice-cold with an arrow pointing east, the mystery country is not in South America, so the next guess should be another large country in that direction, such as Algeria or India. Once a guess is warmer and the colour leaves the ice band, stop jumping continents and search inside the region the arrow indicates.

Think in neighbours

Dense regions punish random hopping. In South America, West Africa, and Southeast Asia the centre points of neighbours are often only hundreds of kilometres apart, so the colour can say close while several names remain. Read the arrow as a shove toward the next neighbour. If Ghana is warmer than Nigeria and the arrow says west, try Côte d’Ivoire or Burkina Faso before you leap to Kenya. The same habit works when distances get short: the remaining names are the ones that share a border or sit just beyond it.

Save the tiny islands

Island countries are real answers, but they are poor early guesses. Nauru, Tuvalu, or a small Caribbean country rarely tells you the hemisphere, because you already needed that knowledge to pick the island. Wait until the distance is short and the arrow has pointed the same way twice. Japan, Iceland, New Zealand, Madagascar, Australia, and the Philippines can still be the hidden country. Singapore is treated as neighbouring Malaysia, because the list records that land link.

Read the direction, then move

Use the arrow and the warmer or colder word together. The colour says how far the centre point is. The word says whether this guess beat the previous one. A clay row that is colder means you were nearer a moment ago and then stepped the wrong way. If Spain comes back with a south arrow, look at North Africa before France. If the next guess is colder, you overshot: step back along the same line. The distance, the abbreviation, and the warmer or colder word are written in text, so the round does not depend on hue alone.

Globle vs Wordle

Daily games like Wordle ask you to spend a small budget of guesses and then wait. Globle, played as Waymark, keeps that rhythm and drops the wait. A word game hides five letters. Waymark hides a country and answers with kilometres, a compass point, and a warmer or colder comparison.

A strong word opener uses common letters. A strong Waymark opener uses a large country so the first arrow is easy to trust. After that, both games reward staying with the clue instead of guessing a favourite. If you want the letter version, Wordle Unlimited on this site is Folio. Waymark will still be here when you want the map again.

Frequently Asked Questions

More Geography DLE Games

Waymark is one of two geography games on DLE HQ. The other page is Flagle, where the board is called Bunting: six guesses at a flag, then bonus questions on the same country. When you want a puzzle that is not a map, Songless Unlimited is the open-ended music game, Wordle Unlimited is the five-letter word game, and Heardle is the daily intro puzzle. Every geography page that exists is listed under Geography DLE games.