[druadh]

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

[amilios]

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.

[klodolph]

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.

[crazcarl]

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

[klodolph]

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

[selcuka]

150% zoom level is your friend.

[blondin]

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...

[birdyrooster]

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.

[dunefox]

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

[ghostly_s]

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.

[dwighttk]

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

[ghostly_s]

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

[shever73]

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