Worldle [Gaming Scripts]

[MojoRisin]

A new product by MojoRisin is available: Worldle v1.0.4 - Wordle for the world.

Worldle v1.0.4​

Description​

Blatchy Worldle
A shared daily geography puzzle that gives your forum's globetrotters and map nerds the same daily ritual Wordle gave everyone else.

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The geography answer to Wordle, built natively for XenForo. Every member of your community sees the same mystery country silhouette each day and has six guesses to identify it. After each guess, you see the straight-line distance, a directional arrow, and a proximity percentage — enough to triangulate the answer if you know your continents. Pure algorithmic, pure automated, zero curation, zero APIs.

How it works

A new mystery country is picked at midnight in your forum's timezone. Members visit /worldle/ and see the country's outline rendered as a clean inline SVG silhouette — every coastline, every island, every peninsula. They type a guess (with autocomplete), and the result shows the distance in kilometers, a compass arrow pointing toward the answer, and a proximity percentage (100% for an exact match, dropping as the guess gets farther).

Players use the directional and distance feedback to triangulate. Guess France, see the arrow point southeast at 825 km — try Italy. Guess Brazil, see the arrow point northwest at 8,000 km — try Mexico. Six tries to identify the country.

When the puzzle is solved (or lost), a celebration modal pops with the visitor's stats, a shareable colored-square grid that includes directional arrows, copy-to-clipboard, and a one-tap Share to thread button that posts the result straight to a forum thread you've designated.

What's included

• Daily shared puzzle — one country per day, same for every member, picked automatically by cron
• 198 sovereign countries shipped — UN-recognized nations plus a few microstates, six months before any country repeats
• Natural Earth 1:10m polygon data — high-resolution coastlines rendered as inline SVG, no images, no external APIs
• Six guesses with distance, directional arrow, and proximity percentage feedback after each
• Autocomplete country search as you type — never get blocked by spelling
• Per-member stats — played, win rate, current streak, best streak, guess distribution
• Sortable leaderboard — by current streak, best streak, total wins, or average guesses, with the visitor's own row pinned for visibility
• Smooth client-side pagination — up to 60 leaderboard entries, 20 per page, no reload, no jump
• Win modal — celebration headline that scales with guess count (Genius / Magnificent / Impressive / Splendid / Great / Phew), shareable colored grid with directional arrows, copy-to-clipboard, share-to-thread
• Live countdown to the next puzzle — reinforces the daily-return loop
• How-to-play modal — accessible from the help icon for new players
• Round-robin recycling — once every country has been served, the longest-unseen country is picked next, never repeats consecutively
• Per-forum sequence — each install runs its own independent puzzle numbering, no global cheat sheets
• Permission-gated — separate flags for playing, sharing to thread, and viewing the leaderboard
• Zero external dependencies — pure algorithmic generation, no APIs, no licenses, no third-party services

Why it works

• Untapped audience. Wordle catches the word people. Numberle catches the math people. Worldle catches the third demographic — the travel community, the geography nerds, the map enthusiasts, the language learners, the trivia heads. A different brain workout that doesn't compete with the other two.
• Pairs with the family. If you already run Blatchy Wordle and Numberle, Worldle slots in as the third daily ritual on the same forum — three different brains, three daily-return hooks, one consistent visual language.
• Loss aversion drives streaks. Once a member has a 12-day streak, they don't miss tomorrow. The fear of breaking it pulls them back.
• Educational by accident. Players quickly learn the geography of regions they didn't know — capital locations, country sizes, continental layouts. The game is fun first, but the learning happens whether they want it or not.
• Spoiler-free social proof. The shareable colored grid with directional arrows tells the story of the deduction without revealing the answer. Members banter about strategy, brag about lucky early guesses, and watch each other's streaks climb.
• Pure automation. No content authoring, no curation queue, no API key, no licensing fees. The country dataset is bundled at install, the daily picker runs forever, and rotation never repeats consecutively.

Admin setup

Install the addon — the install routine seeds the country table from the bundled dataset (198 countries with high-resolution Natural Earth polygon data). Set the three permissions on your registered user group. Optionally point the share-to-thread feature at a designated forum thread. Done. The daily picker runs on cron at 00:05 forum-time.

Permissions

• Play the daily puzzle — required to submit guesses
• Share results to thread — required to use the share-to-thread button
• View the leaderboard — required to access the leaderboard page

Requirements

• XenForo 2.3+
• PHP 8.1+
• No external API dependencies

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