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What is Originle?
Originle is a daily geography guessing game built around real people. Each day features a new guest who shares their own story through video and audio clips, and your job is to work out which country that person is representing through their roots and culture. The guest may live anywhere in the world, so the answer is about heritage, not current home. You start with a pool of 10,000 points and three guesses. Eight clues are available, each one easier than the last, but every clue you reveal costs points. Wrong guesses are expensive too, each one cutting your score by 30%. Even if you never land on the right country, you can still score for how close your guesses were. It is free to play in a web browser, and a fresh guest arrives at midnight Eastern time.
How Originle works
- Goal
Identify the country today's guest represents through their roots and culture, using clues from their own story.
- Your moves
- Watch the guest's first video
- Reveal the next clue for points
- Submit and lock in a country guess
- Give up
- Use the globe to take notes and shortlist countries
- Reading the feedback
- Remaining points out of 10,000
- Shows how much your clue reveals and wrong guesses have cost so far.
- Clue costs rising from 250 to 1,750
- Later clues are progressively easier but more expensive to unlock.
- When a round ends
The round ends when you lock in a correct guess, use all three guesses, or give up; you still score for closeness even without a correct answer. A new guest arrives daily at midnight Eastern.
Your first round
- Watch the guest's first video clip, replaying it with captions and sound to catch details about their roots.
- Reveal a clue if needed, noting that it deducts points from your 10,000-point pool.
- Mark candidate countries on the globe as a scratchpad while you shortlist.
- Submit a country guess and lock it in; a wrong guess costs 30% of your points.
- Repeat with easier clues or give up, and still score for how close your guesses were.
Easy to miss
- Clue reveal costs increase with each clue, from 250 up to 1,750 points, so early reveals are the cheapest.
- Each wrong guess costs 30% of your points, so guessing early is expensive.
- You can still score for closeness even if you miss all three guesses or give up.
- The answer is the guest's country of roots and culture, which may differ from where they live.
Is Originle for you?
- Players who enjoy human stories alongside geography puzzles
- Fans of daily guessing games who want a scoring twist with costly clues
- Anyone who likes narrowing down a country from open-ended cultural clues
- Players who prefer pure map or flag puzzles without video and audio content
- Anyone who wants a quick puzzle with no point penalties for wrong guesses
Originle compared with similar games
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| Detail | Originle | Satle | GeoGraphle | Zonday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| You find | a guest's country of roots and culture | a city | countries | an Amazon product's price |
| You work from | video and audio story clues | satellite imagery, direction and distance | flag colors, map silhouettes, attribute grids and rankings | hot/cold feedback and product details |
| Attempts | 3 guesses | 6 tries | Not stated | 6 guesses |
| New puzzles | New guest daily at midnight Eastern | New puzzle daily | New daily set at midnight UTC | New puzzle daily |
| Access | Free | Free | Free | Free |
Originle FAQ
Is Originle free to play?
Yes, it is free and runs in a web browser, so no download or purchase is needed to play.
How many guesses do I get in Originle?
You get three guesses per guest. Each wrong guess costs 30% of your points, and missing all three still earns you points for closeness.
When does a new Originle puzzle appear?
A new guest is released daily at midnight Eastern time, so there is one fresh puzzle each day.
What do clues cost in Originle?
Revealing a clue deducts points from your 10,000-point pool, with costs rising from 250 points for early clues up to 1,750 points for later ones.
What if the guest lives in a different country than their heritage?
Guess the country the guest represents through their roots and culture, not the country where they live. Guests may be part of a diaspora.
Source checked 9 Oct 2026. This guide is based on the game's published rules. How we check guides · Official game
