Globle - Yet Another Geography Game

[Gunnar]

6 guesses

[Gunnar]

7 guesses

[Gunnar]

5

[Gunnar]

Something is wrong with the game today. I guessed several countries that I know for a fact are actual countries, that the game insists are invalid guesses.

[Marcus]

Something is wrong with the game today. I guessed several countries that I know for a fact are actual countries, that the game insists are invalid guesses.

i've had that issue also. frustrating.

[honorentheos]

My limited experience with issues usually turned out to be either my spelling didn't match or, more often, the name I had in my head turned out to be only a partial bit of the official name. It could use a better interface that doesn't just rely on a person's spell checker for sure. Examples have included Bosnia, St. Kitts, the Congo republics, the Grenadines, and Micronesia.

For me, it kinda helped today given the answer was one I think of immediately in the region. One of those, "It's in the neighborhood of X" and X ends up being the answer.

[Gunnar]

My limited experience with issues usually turned out to be either my spelling didn't match or, more often, the name I had in my head turned out to be only a partial bit of the official name. It could use a better interface that doesn't just rely on a person's spell checker for sure. Examples have included Bosnia, St. Kitts, the Congo republics, the Grenadines, and Micronesia.

For me, it kinda helped today given the answer was one I think of immediately in the region. One of those, "It's in the neighborhood of X" and X ends up being the answer.

Yes, I have had those issues too, and usually found an alternative that the game accepted. Today, however, there were several guesses I made that I spell checked, googled and looked up in Wikipedia that I know for a fact were the actual names of currently extant countries, yet resulted in the message "invalid entry."

[Marcus]

My limited experience with issues usually turned out to be either my spelling didn't match or, more often, the name I had in my head turned out to be only a partial bit of the official name. It could use a better interface that doesn't just rely on a person's spell checker for sure. Examples have included Bosnia, St. Kitts, the Congo republics, the Grenadines, and Micronesia.

For me, it kinda helped today given the answer was one I think of immediately in the region. One of those, "It's in the neighborhood of X" and X ends up being the answer.

Yes, I have had those issues too, and usually found an alternative that the game accepted. Today, however, there were several guesses I made that I spell checked, googled and looked up in Wikipedia that I know for a fact were the actual names of currently extant countries, yet resulted in the message "invalid entry."

Yes, i got that too, once. The spelling was absolutely correct, as well as full name, but the game wouldn't accept it. I realized it was a glitch because another device allowed me to select the word as misspelled, then select its version (no different than mine) and then the game accepted it. Weird glitch.

[Gunnar]

Finally got it after the 15th guess, but I am still frustrated that a couple or so of my wrong guesses, which I know for a fact are the names of actual countries were "invalid guesses", according to Wordle. Nevertheless, I am a bit embarrassed that it took me so many guesses, because when I finally got the right guess and looked at the map, it was blazingly obviously the right answer. It was a far less obscure country than I had imagined the answer might be. I had previously correctly guessed in fewer tries countries that were truly obscure and much, much less well known and more geographically isolated. I had apparently got the idea fixated in my mind that I was looking for yet another tiny and little-known country as obscure as some I had previously guessed correctly.

[honorentheos]

The interface is definitely the weakest feature of the app. My impression is it doesn't use an independent spell checker but rather the default associated with the browser with a site cookie or the like involved. I say that as the text line automatically shows Kuwait as the first suggestion when I click in it. The Worldle drop down is far superior.