Comparisons
Dickle belongs to a small genre: daily games where the answer is a published figure about a place. These are the 3 closest to it, one page each, with the rules of both games set out side by side and a verdict on every dimension. Every fact about the other game was checked by playing it, not taken from its marketing copy.
The comparisons
- Dickle vs Countryle4–3–4Countryle and Dickle both run on published country statistics and disagree about what to do with them. Countryle uses a dozen of them — population, GDP, coastline, FIFA ranking — as clues towards a hidden country, with unlimited guesses. Dickle names the country and makes one measured figure the answer, in five. Countryle is the bigger game; Dickle is the one that asks you to put a number on something.
- Dickle vs Worldle1–2–7Worldle shows you a country's silhouette and gives you six tries to name it, with distance, direction and a proximity percentage after each guess. Dickle names the country and asks for a published figure about it in five. Worldle is the better-made and far better-known game; Dickle is the one where the answer is a number you can go and check.
- Dickle vs Tradle1–3–4Tradle is the closest thing Dickle has to a peer: both are daily puzzles built on a real published dataset with the source visible, and both are published by the people who hold the data. Tradle shows you a treemap of a country's exports and asks which country it is. Dickle names the country and asks for the figure. Same idea, opposite directions.
The three figures beside each comparison are the tally of verified dimensions: how many favour Dickle, how many favour the other game, and how many are level. They are counted from the tables rather than written down, so they move when a table does.
What these pages are not
They are not reviews. Every game here is free to play and worth an evening; the question a comparison page answers is which one suits you, not which one is good. Two of the three are better known than Dickle and one of them is the game this one learned its feedback model from.
They are also not permanent. Daily games change their rules, add modes and occasionally stop being maintained. Each page carries the date its facts were last checked against the live game, and if a row here disagrees with what you see when you go and play, the other game is right and we are out of date — tell us and we will fix it.
For the wider genre rather than the closest peers, the list of daily games covers the word, geography and trivia dailies too.