Daily games like Wordle

There are something like a thousand daily browser games now, nearly all of them built on the same shape Wordle settled: one puzzle, a handful of guesses, feedback that narrows the answer, and a result you can post without spoiling it. This is not a list of a thousand. It is the ones that have lasted, one or two per genre, with the games closest to what we do at the top.

Pricele is one of them, so treat the list accordingly — but the descriptions are straight, and where another game does something better than we do, it says so. Nothing here is sponsored and there are no affiliate links.

Price-guessing games

The genre Pricele sits in, and the shortest section on this page: price is a category with maybe a dozen games in it, against a hundred and fifty word games. Most of them ask what a product costs. Pricele asks what an everyday thing costs in a particular country, which turns out to be a different question — a litre of petrol is the same litre in Norway and Egypt, and the price is set almost entirely by politics.

  • Dickle

    Guess the average published penis size for a different country each day, in five tries, on a hotter/colder scale.

    Same maker Built and maintained by the same person as Pricele, to the same rule: every figure names the source it came from.

    vs. Pricele The nearest game to this one anywhere, and the only other daily puzzle we know of built the same way round: it names the country and asks you for a published figure. The subject invites jokes and it refuses to make any — every figure is tied to a named urology study with its sample size and measurement method printed beside it, countries with no primary study are left out rather than estimated, and the whole table is published as an openly licensed dataset. If what you like here is a number you can go and check, it is the obvious next tab.

  • Costcodle

    Guess the price of a single Costco product in six tries, with higher/lower feedback after each guess.

    vs. Pricele One retailer, one country. Costcodle is the closest thing to a direct peer, and it is the better game if what you want is American retail prices specifically.

    Full comparison →

  • Spendle

    Guess the price of one product a day; land within 5% of it and you win.

    vs. Pricele Consumer products rather than everyday staples, and no country dimension: the question is what a thing costs, not where.

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  • PriceGame

    Guess the prices of five items in a row each day, then compare your run against a streak and a leaderboard.

    vs. Pricele Five rounds a day instead of one puzzle, and built around competing with other players rather than around where the numbers come from.

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  • Price Games

    Guess what real listed products cost, solo in a daily challenge or against other people in live rooms.

    vs. Pricele Multiplayer, and priced from retail listings, so the numbers move with whatever is in stock rather than sitting still as a published statistic.

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  • Guess the Price

    Fifteen products a run, one guess each, and it shows you what everyone else guessed before revealing the real price.

    vs. Pricele Not a daily game at all: there is no edition and no streak, you simply play again. The items lean towards the extravagant rather than the everyday, and anyone can submit one.

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Each of these has a full head-to-head comparison with Pricele: the two rulebooks side by side, a verdict on every dimension, and a section on what the other game does better.

If you want the country angle specifically, the price tables are readable without playing at all, and methodology says where each number came from and where it is weakest.

Words

  • Wordle

    Guess a five-letter word in six tries. The game every other one on this page is descended from.

  • Connections

    Sort sixteen words into four groups of four that share something. Four mistakes and it's over.

  • Quordle

    Four Wordle grids at once, nine guesses, shared between them.

  • Waffle

    Swap letters around a filled waffle-shaped grid until every across and down word is correct, in fifteen moves.

Geography

  • Worldle

    Identify a country from its outline, with distance and direction to the answer after each guess.

    vs. Pricele The other daily game built on countries, and the one whose feedback model Pricele's warmth meter most resembles.

  • Globle

    Name the mystery country with unlimited guesses on a spinning globe that warms as you close in.

  • Travle

    Get from one country to another in as few border crossings as you can.

  • GeoGuessr

    Work out where you are from a street-level photograph. The free tier is limited; the daily challenge is the part most people play.

Trivia and film

  • Framed

    Name a film from one frame, then another, up to six, each less obscure than the last.

  • Chronophoto

    Guess the year a photograph was taken. Five photographs, scored on how close you get.

  • Bandle

    Name a song from instruments added one at a time, as if the band were arriving late.

Numbers and logic

  • Nerdle

    Wordle for arithmetic: find the hidden equation in six tries.

  • Murdle

    A daily logic-grid murder mystery: work out who, where and with what.

Where to find the rest

The genre is catalogued better by the people who collect it than by anyone writing a list like this one. If you want the full sprawl, including the several hundred games too niche to justify a line here, start with these.

  • DleList

    Around 900 daily games, hand-sorted into nineteen categories.

  • Listdle

    Categorised by subject, including a price section, with a game of the day.

  • The Dles

    700-odd games, tracks which ones you've played, and takes suggestions.

What makes one of these last

Most daily games are abandoned within a year, and the ones above are the survivors, so the pattern is worth naming. The games that last are the ones where the answer is a fact rather than a whim: a country's outline, a published price, the year a photograph was taken. That gives the puzzle somewhere to come from tomorrow, and it gives a player something to be right about.

The ones that die are usually the ones where the daily answer was hand-picked. That works for a few weeks and then it is a second job. Pricele's answer is a published figure with a source attached, and the rotation is arithmetic, which is the whole reason it can keep going without anyone deciding anything each morning.