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Seems like a fun guessing game, but the UI wasn't intuitive. I don't know if my first guess was correct, I thought for a while I was supposed to interact with the gray boxes, etc. I'd recommend having some non-dev friends play with it and provide feedback.

2nd on the giving geoguessr a run for its money. Or forming a strategic partnership? "Love tradle? You might like geoguessr, too!" etc




Its UI is similar to Worldle (https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/), it might be implicitly assuming you're familiar with it already, in which case the "how close you are geographically" mechanism makes sense.


I don't think familiarity with Wordle helps much. This UI is pretty damn confusing. You type in country names, and then a km value, arrow, and percentage value appears. I have no idea what these signify. Clicking on the boxes brings up a box that gives you information but I have no idea how that information is relevant.


They were referencing worldle not wordle. Note the extra L for world instead of word.


Ah, I'm going to blame that one on HN's ridiculous decision to use a 9px font size for comments.


150% zoom level is your friend.


that's me.

and my experience of the web has been painful for the past 5 to 6 years. it feels like no one cares about zoom level or accessibility...


For me (still sub-40 for a few more years) font-sizes on the web are fine. It’s only HN with it’s "superior" design where I have to zoom in.


I'll go out on a limb and say you have turned 40 in the past 5 to 6 years.


The arrow and distance are from the bad guess to what the answer actually is. So like I guessed Estonia, but the answer was Sweden so the arrow pointed northwest and the distance was some 300 odd km.


This is pretty obvious if you have played Wordle or Worldle.


Same, and I was incredibly confused by the wordle-style colored squares that briefly appeared. I saw them on the '?' page too, but no explanation of what they mean. I successfully completed the puzzle and still have no idea what those were.


Just a % bar for how close you are to the country geographically


well that was entirely unclear, and they appeared for such a brief time that I couldn't even parse them if i knew that.


Oh...it's only after reading the comments that I know what's going on. I didn't find it intuitive either.




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