What Globle is
Globle is a free daily geography game in a web browser. There is one Mystery Country a day, and you find it by guessing other countries: each wrong guess is painted on a 3D globe, and the closer it is to the answer, the hotter its colour. The aim is to get there in as few guesses as you can.
It was made by Abe Train, a Canadian developer, in January 2022, during the wave of games that followed Wordle. News coverage that spring described it spreading from Reddit to Twitter and reaching more than a million players a day. It is now published under the name Trainwreck Labs, which also makes Globle: Capitals.
How a round works
You type a country into the box and press Enter. The country lights up on the globe, a line under the box tells you whether it is warmer or cooler than your best guess so far, and a list beside the globe ranks your guesses from closest to farthest. Under the list, Closest border shows how far your best guess is from the answer in kilometres. When a guess shares a border with the answer, the game says so and the distance reads 0.
Distance is measured between land borders, not between centres, so a huge country can be close to the answer even when most of it is far away. The FAQ adds that overseas territories and sea borders do not count. There is no limit on guesses and no timer, and the Mystery Country changes at midnight in your own time zone.
What we saw in our round
We played the daily round on November 7, 2026 and needed 10 guesses. We opened with three big countries on three continents, and the colours ruled out two of them straight away. Our fourth guess, another very large country, came back warmer but still 1,600 km from the answer, which told us we were in the right part of the world but not next door.
The middle of the round was the slow part. Once a guess touched the answer, the distance stayed at 0 and the only help left was which countries the game called adjacent, so we spent four guesses working through neighbours. One of them was marked cooler even though it was right beside our best guess, which is how the game tells you a guess was not an improvement. When we found it, a statistics card showed our guesses, streak and average, with buttons for Practice and Share. The site showed several display ads while we played.
Tips
Open with large countries far apart. A big country covers a lot of border, so one guess clears or confirms a whole region, and spreading the first few across continents tells you which side of the world to search.
Watch the kilometres, not only the colour. Colour tells you roughly how close you are, while the Closest border number tells you exactly how far. A few hundred kilometres usually means a neighbour of a neighbour.
At 0 km, think about shared borders. Once a guess is adjacent, list the countries that touch it and use the other adjacent guesses to narrow them down, rather than guessing at random nearby.
Small countries count too. Microstates and island nations are valid answers, and they are easy to forget when you are scanning a map for big shapes.
Use the colour-blind setting if you need it. The FAQ points to a high-contrast mode in Settings for players who find the colour scale hard to read.
If you want more geography rounds
Globle gives you one Mystery Country a day, plus a practice mode. If you want another short daily, we made [Further North](/g/further-north), our own free game in which you pick which of two cities lies further north or further west, seven pairs a day with a map that shows the gap after each answer. It is not connected with Globle and plays quite differently: there is no guessing country by country, just one tap per pair.
Which site is the official one
The game is at globle-game.com, and its footer credits Trainwreck Labs. Its popularity has brought many unofficial copies and unlimited versions on other domains, some built from the game's public code, and they can differ in rules, country lists and scoring. We do not publish the daily answer here, because finding it is the game.
