What is Travle?
Travle gives you a start country and an end country and asks you to connect them over land. You do that by guessing the countries in between, building a route border by border. Every guess is coloured to show how useful it was: whether it lies on one of the shortest routes or is a detour. You have a limited number of guesses beyond the minimum, so a few wrong turns are allowed, but not many. The joy of Travle is how much geography it teaches without feeling like a lesson. You will quickly learn which countries actually share a border, and be surprised by a few you never knew about. It comes from Teuteuf Games, the studio behind several popular daily geography games. It suits travel lovers, map nerds and anyone who wants their daily puzzle to leave them knowing a little more about the world.
How to play
- Type the name of a country you think lies between the start and the end.
- The colour of each guess shows whether it is on a shortest route.
- Finish the land route before you run out of guesses.
Quick facts
- Typical time
- 2–5 min
- Difficulty
- Medium · it depends a lot on the part of the world
- Price
- Free.
- Account
- Not needed. An optional account sits in the menu.
- Past puzzles
- Free. Every daily route since December 2022 is in the archive, with a random-game button too.
- On a phone
- Works in your phone's browser. Nothing to install.
- Variants
- There are also versions for single countries and regions, such as the states of the USA.
Tips to get better
- Picture the whole route before you type. Every guess counts, including the ones you didn't need. Work out the chain in your head first.
- Count borders, not kilometres. The shortest route crosses the fewest countries. Big ones such as Russia, China, Brazil and DR Congo touch many neighbours and can replace three or four small ones.
- Check for a forced first step. Some countries have only one neighbour: Portugal, Lesotho, The Gambia. If your start or end is one of them, the first move is already decided.
- Build from the end you know. You can enter countries in any order. If you know the area around the destination better, start there and work back.
- Change corridor when the colour says so. A guess marked as off the route means the shortest path runs somewhere else. Don't keep pushing in the same direction.
Who it's for
Travle is for people who can find countries on a map and want to learn how they fit together. It rewards real knowledge more than any other geography game here: you can't deduce a border, you have to know it. That makes it hard at first, especially in Africa and Central Asia, but you learn fast. Expect a few humbling days.
