Travle: Connect Two Countries — How to Play & Read the Route

What is Travle?

Travle is a free daily geography game about connecting two countries. The start and end points are shown; you supply the countries or regions needed to join them. Unlike Worldle’s country outlines or Globle’s mystery location, Travle asks what connects one place to another.

Oisín Carroll created the game, which is now part of Teuteuf Games. Travle and Worldle belong to the same game company, but they have different original creators.

How to play Travle

1. Read the endpoints. Start with the two countries shown above the map.
2. Name an intermediate country or region. Select it in the input and submit your guess.
3. Read the feedback. It tells you whether the guess helps connect your route.
4. Fill the gaps. Keep going until your guessed regions connect the start to the destination.

Aim to follow a short route in order from the start. You can guess a useful country farther ahead, but you still need to connect the gaps before the route is complete.

What the colours and check marks mean

• Check mark: a guess that reduces the remaining guesses and connects to the start through your earlier guesses.
• Green: a guess that reduces the remaining guesses, but is not yet connected to the start.
• Orange: a route option of similar length that does not reduce the remaining guesses.
• Red: a longer detour or an unusable route.

Colours depend on the guesses you have already made. Being on an original shortest route does not guarantee green feedback after you have chosen another branch. Follow the missing connections, rather than treating every green country as the next stop.

Borders, bridges and island connections

Travle uses a connected travel route, rather than treating every part of a country as interchangeable. Bridges and tunnels count: the Channel Tunnel connects France and the United Kingdom. Some island connections are allowed within a country when there is no other route.

An exclave does not create a shortcut through the country’s mainland. Russia does not connect to Poland through Kaliningrad, and mainland Spain does not connect to Morocco through Ceuta or Melilla. If a connection seems surprising, check the official Extra Info & FAQ.

The guess limit changes with the route

There is no fixed ten-guess rule. The allowance is based on the shortest solution plus extra guesses. The developer’s example gives a route needing six guesses an allowance of eleven. Read the Guess counter for the limit on the puzzle you are playing.

Daily, Practice and Weekly Challenge

The official site offers the daily route, a Weekly Challenge every Monday, and a Practice & Challenge area for more play. Practice lets you try more routes after finishing the daily; it is a separate mode rather than a daily answer archive.

The developer’s FAQ says the daily route is only available on its day. For another round, open official Practice mode. The game’s own outline and initial-letter hints are available if you need help.

Where to play Travle

Play in your browser at travle.earth, the official home linked by both its creator and Teuteuf Games. The site carries ads and offers optional ad removal. Use the official menu for current modes and paid options.

Games like Travle

Worldle tests country-shape recognition; Globle asks you to locate a mystery country through warmer-or-colder feedback. For another geography puzzle, try Tradle’s export charts or TimeGuessr’s historical photos. They test different knowledge from Travle’s route connections.