Since Wordle's breakout in early 2022, daily puzzle games have become one of the most durable categories on the internet. The format is simple: a single challenge per day, shared by everyone playing, with a small grid of squares that encodes your result for sharing on social media. Wordle itself spawned hundreds of imitators, most of which lasted a few months before fading. A smaller number found a durable audience by picking a specific domain the original Wordle did not cover and building an entire game around it.
For travel and aviation fans, a handful of these daily games have become habits. The best ones are more than variations on Wordle. They each use the daily-puzzle format to teach you something specific about the world, about aircraft, about geography, or about the weird details of how global transit actually works.
This is a guide to the best daily games for anyone who likes aviation, travel, or the strange intersection of both. They are ranked loosely by polish, originality, and how rewarding they are to play over time.
1. SkyQ, the daily flight route puzzle
SkyQ, part of FlightQ, is a daily game about identifying real flight routes from a set of four clues: aircraft type, flight duration, airline, and departure direction. You get five guesses to pinpoint the city pair. Each wrong guess tells you whether the origin or the destination was in the right part of the world, using color-coded feedback similar to Wordle but mapped onto a route map instead of a word grid.
The puzzle has three daily difficulties: easy, medium, and hard. The easy puzzle uses well-known routes with common aircraft. Hard uses obscure routes, regional aircraft, and less-familiar carriers. If you play all three every day, you start to internalize the actual geography of global aviation in a way that casual travel rarely teaches. You learn which airlines fly which planes on which routes. You learn that the 787 Dreamliner is more common in the Pacific than the Atlantic. You learn that Turkish Airlines serves more cities nonstop than any other carrier in the world.
It is the game that this list is on, so there is an obvious bias in including it. But the puzzle design and the emphasis on real aviation data make it a genuinely useful entry in the genre, and the difficulty progression gives it more replay value than most one-shot daily games.
Play it: flightq.app
2. Worldle
Worldle gives you a silhouette of a country and asks you to identify it. You get six guesses. After each wrong guess, you see the distance and compass direction from your answer to the correct country, letting you triangulate.
The game is deceptively educational. After a few weeks of playing, you develop an intuition for country shapes that no geography class ever gave you. You learn that Laos looks like a hook, that Morocco has a distinctive peninsula, that the Philippines is a complicated mess of islands that is still recognizable from the outline. The sharing grid encodes your result as colored squares, which made it go viral early and helped it establish a committed user base.
Worldle is available at worldle.teuteuf.fr. It predates most of the games on this list, and its founder, Antoine Teuteuf, has since released a whole family of daily games in the same style, several of which also appear here.
3. Globle
Globle is the simpler cousin of Worldle. You guess a country. After each guess, the country you guessed is colored on a globe according to how close it is to the answer, with hotter colors for closer countries. There is no silhouette and no turn limit. You keep guessing until you get it, and the challenge is to get the answer in as few tries as possible.
Globle rewards a specific kind of geographical thinking. You learn which countries are adjacent to which, how to use continental proximity to triangulate, and where the less-visited countries of the world actually sit on the map. It is a great game for players who want to feel smarter about world geography without memorizing flag colors or capitals.
Available at globle-game.com.
4. AirportQ
AirportQ, also part of FlightQ, gives you a daily airport in two parallel modes: one for United States airports and one for worldwide airports. The game shows you a list of airlines that operate from the airport, starting with the smallest and progressing to the largest. Your job is to guess the airport. Each wrong guess reveals more airlines, and also tells you how far away your guess was from the correct airport in miles, plus the direction.
The puzzle is harder than it sounds. A list that says "Frontier Airlines, JetBlue, Air Canada, Southwest, American" could be a dozen major American airports. The trick is that the flight volumes are specific: the exact ranking of which airline has the most flights from this airport on a given day narrows it down significantly. Real data from air traffic records powers the clues, which means the puzzle is different every day based on actual operations.
It is the best daily game about airports specifically, as opposed to cities or countries. Play it: flightq.app/airportq
5. Tradle
Tradle is a daily game about international trade. Each day, the game shows you a treemap of a country's exports, broken down by product category. Your job is to guess the country based on the shape and color of its export profile.
Tradle is the most educational game on this list. You learn that some economies are monoculture exporters (oil, cocoa, semiconductors), while others have diverse export profiles across many categories. You learn which countries are the world's dominant producers of specific goods. You learn that Switzerland exports mostly gold and pharmaceuticals, that Chile exports copper and fish, that Vietnam has become a major producer of electronic components.
If you are serious about understanding the global economy, Tradle is probably the best single daily habit you can build. Available at oec.world/en/tradle.
6. Flagle
Flagle gives you a flag broken into six tiles and reveals them one at a time as you guess. You have six guesses, with each wrong guess unlocking a new tile and also telling you the distance and direction to the correct country.
The game is harder than it sounds because most world flags have similar elements: horizontal or vertical stripes, crescents, stars, or crosses in various combinations. A lot of tricolor flags look identical until you see the specific shade of red or the exact proportions. Flagle teaches you to see flags precisely, which is a useful skill for anyone who travels internationally.
Available at flagle.io.
7. PassportQ
PassportQ is the third daily game from FlightQ. It shows you a city somewhere in the world and gives you five guesses to identify it. Clues include vibe descriptions, geographic hints, landscape characteristics, and specific details about the city that unlock as you guess.
The difficulty is tuned to favor well-traveled players. You will not see Paris, Tokyo, or New York as the answer. The puzzles tend to be mid-sized cities that you might have heard of but probably have not visited: Porto, Ljubljana, Chiang Mai, Bogotá, Tbilisi. If you have traveled widely or studied geography intensively, you will do well. If you have not, the game teaches you about the middle tier of global cities that most travel coverage ignores.
Play it: flightq.app/passportq
8. Travle
Travle is a chain game. It gives you a starting country and an ending country, and your job is to name the sequence of countries you would drive through to get from one to the other. Each step has to be directly adjacent to the previous one. A wrong guess counts against you, but you can see how many are in the correct path.
The game teaches you adjacencies you would never otherwise learn. You find out that Moldova shares a border with Romania and Ukraine. That Armenia borders Turkey, Iran, and Azerbaijan. That the Gambia is completely surrounded by Senegal except for its tiny coastline. Travle is harder than it sounds because there are usually multiple valid paths, and finding the shortest one is a different challenge from simply finding any path.
Available at travle.earth.
9. Airportle
Airportle is a straight Wordle mechanic applied to three-letter airport codes. You guess IATA codes, and the game tells you which letters are in the right position. If you have played Wordle, you already know the rules. If you know a lot of airport codes, you will dominate.
The game is more enjoyable if you approach it as a memory test for your own travel history. The more airports you have actually been through, the more codes you will know off the top of your head, and the faster you will solve the daily puzzle. For frequent fliers, it becomes a quick way to verify that the mental map you think you have is actually right.
Available at airportle.glitch.me.
10. Timeguessr
Timeguessr is not quite daily in the strict sense, but it is close. The game shows you a historical photograph and asks you to guess the year it was taken, plus the location where it was taken. It scores you on both axes.
The location half works like GeoGuessr, using visible clues to triangulate. The year half requires you to look at details like car models, fashion, building styles, and signage. Timeguessr is one of the few games that rewards both geographic intuition and historical knowledge at the same time. Available at timeguessr.com.
11. GeoGuessr Daily Challenge
GeoGuessr itself is a paid game, but it runs a free daily challenge that drops you into a random Google Street View location anywhere in the world and asks you to pinpoint it on a map. The scoring is based on how close your guess is to the actual location.
This is the oldest game on this list by some margin. GeoGuessr predates the Wordle-inspired daily game format by years, and it has built a competitive community of players who can identify countries from a single telephone pole or soil color. The daily challenge is a gentler entry point than the full competitive game, and it is where most casual players first encounter the title.
12. RailQ
RailQ is the fourth FlightQ game in rotation. It uses the same puzzle mechanic as SkyQ but applied to train routes instead of flights. You get clues about the train operator, the journey time, and other details, and you have five guesses to identify the origin and destination.
Train routes are a smaller and more regional set than flights, which makes the game feel different from SkyQ. It is much easier if you have traveled on the rail networks in Europe or Japan, and much harder if you have mostly flown. For anyone who enjoys rail travel specifically, it is one of the only daily games built around the topic. Play it: flightq.app/railq
How to pick
If you want the most variety, rotate through several of these rather than playing one every day. Five minutes on Worldle, two minutes on Globle, and a quick SkyQ gives you a fifteen-minute daily puzzle routine that covers aviation, geography, and country shapes in one sitting. All three games will teach you something new every time you play, and the cumulative effect over weeks and months is genuinely educational in a way that short-form content rarely is.
The games that endure in this genre share a few features. They have tight daily mechanics, so the time commitment is predictable. They have shareable grids, so players can compare results without spoiling the puzzle. They have honest difficulty progression, so committed players feel like their experience is paying off. And they teach you something specific about the world that you did not know before.
Wordle was about words. The games above are about everything else.
