Dickle vs Tradle

Tradle 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.

Written by Dickle, so read the tally accordingly — but every figure below was checked against Tradle itself on 20 August 2026, and the page says where Tradle wins. Nothing here is sponsored and there are no affiliate links.

Side by side

Dickle compared with Tradle, dimension by dimension.
Dimension	Dickle	Tradle	Edge
What you guess	A published figure for a named country	Which country a treemap of exports belongs to	Level
What you guess	Tradle gives you the data and asks for the country; Dickle gives you the country and asks for the data. Of everything in this genre these two are the closest pair.
Guesses	5 guesses	6 tries	Tradle
Where the numbers come from	Every figure is a published clinical measurement with the study named on the country's own page, two thirds of them linked to the paper on PubMed, and a third carrying a written note on what the study actually did and how it can be wrong	The Observatory of Economic Complexity's own trade data, which is the dataset the site exists to publish	Level
Where the numbers come from	The only other game in this genre whose provenance is as good as ours, and arguably better: the publisher and the game are the same organisation.
Reading the data without playing	Every country has its own page with the figure, the study and the caveats, readable without playing	The whole Observatory — profiles, rankings and visualisations for every country — sits around the game	Tradle
Reading the data without playing	We built a reference site around a game. Tradle is a game bolted onto a reference site that was already one of the best of its kind.
Countries covered	24, limited by which have a primary study behind them	Effectively every trading country	Tradle
What is being tested	Whether you can put a number on something you have never looked up	Whether you can read an economy from what it sells	Level
Feedback	A hotter/colder warmth ladder — freezing, cold, warm, hot, scorching — set by how many centimetres out you are, plus higher or lower	Not stated	—
Past puzzles	Every past puzzle is replayable and cannot touch your streak	Not stated	—
Account needed	None. No backend, no sign-in; progress lives in your browser	None to play	Level
Cost	Free, with no premium tier and nothing to pay for. One ad slot, on the reveal after a round ends; the board itself carries none	Free to play, ad-supported, on a site that sells paid subscriptions for the underlying data	Dickle
Plays offline	Fully static. The puzzle data ships with the page, so it plays with a dropped connection	Not stated	—

Of 8 verified dimensions, 1 favour Dickle, 3 favour Tradle, and 4 are level. Checked against the live game on 20 August 2026. Loaded the live game at oec.world. The rules below come from playing it; the dimensions we could not confirm from the shipped client are marked unverified rather than guessed at, because Tradle's game logic is served from the Observatory's own embed rather than from the page bundle.

Where Tradle wins

Tradle does this better

It is published by the people who own the dataset, which is a stronger provenance claim than ours: we cite other people's studies, they cite themselves.
The Observatory around it is a genuinely excellent reference site with a profile for every country, and it existed long before the game did.
Every trading country is in play, against our 24.
Six tries rather than five, on an answer with far more possible values.
As a thing to learn from, an export treemap teaches you more per puzzle than a single measurement does.

Play Tradle and judge for yourself. The link is not affiliated and the recommendation is real.

Where Dickle wins

Dickle does this better

The number is the answer rather than the clue, which is the whole difference in what the two games test.
Each country's page names the study, links it where the link has been checked, and says what that study actually did and how it can be wrong.
A replayable archive that cannot damage your streak.
Nothing sold behind the data, and the only ad is on the reveal after the round is over.
Plays with the connection dropped.

Which should you play

Play Tradle if: Play Tradle if you want the puzzle attached to the better reference site, or if reading an economy from what it exports sounds more interesting than putting a number on a measurement. It is the most respectable game in this genre and we would recommend it over ours to anyone who cares about trade.

Play Dickle if: Play Dickle if you want the direction reversed: the country given, the figure withheld, and five guesses to find out how well calibrated you actually are.

Or both. They take about a minute each and they are not competing for the same minute of your day so much as this page implies. The full list of daily games has the rest of the genre, and methodology says where our own numbers are weakest.

Frequently asked questions

What daily game is most like Dickle?

Tradle, on the structure. Both are daily puzzles built on a real published dataset with the source shown, and both sit next to a reference site rather than standing alone. The difference is direction: Tradle shows you a country's export data and asks which country it is, while Dickle names the country and asks you to guess the published figure.

Are there other daily games built on real published data?

Few, which is the interesting thing about this category. Tradle uses the Observatory of Economic Complexity's own trade data. Worldle documents its country data and lists sources. Dickle uses primary urology studies, named per country and mostly linked to the paper. Most daily games in other genres use word lists or crowd-sourced figures with no source given at all.

Does Dickle show where its numbers come from?

Yes, on every country page: the study, the sample size, the method it used, and for two thirds of them a link to the paper on PubMed. Where the study's design has been read in full there is also a written note on what it actually measured and the specific reason the figure can be wrong. A country with no note means unverified, not that no caveat exists.