War Wordle — Guess the Battle, One Puzzle a Day

War Wordle is the daily battle-guessing game at WarAtlas. Same idea as Wordle — one puzzle a day, everybody gets the same one, share your result without spoiling it — except instead of a five-letter word you're placing a real historical battle on a world map.

How a round works

• Three real battles per day, the same three for every player, refreshed at midnight UTC
• You get the battle's name; you drop a pin where you think it happened
• Three guesses each — miss once and the year is revealed, miss twice and you get the conflict and the region
• Scoring is distance-based — 1,000 points inside 50 km, down to 50 for a wild miss
• Using your second guess costs 50 points, your third costs 100 — so a confident first pin is worth the most
• Streaks carry day to day, and streak freezes are earned as you go — one at 7 days, two more at 30, three at 100
• Emoji share card, spoiler-free by design

What's in the pool

Every puzzle is drawn from 13,542 real battles spanning roughly 5,000 years, sourced from Wikidata, UCDP, ACLED, HiSCoD and Wikipedia. The spread by era:

• Ancient: 17 battles
• Classical: 691 battles
• Medieval: 1,978 battles
• Early Modern: 4,311 battles
• Modern: 4,467 battles
• Contemporary: 2,078 battles

Browse the pool by era

• Ancient battles — 17 in the pool
• Classical battles — 691 in the pool
• Medieval battles — 1,978 in the pool
• Early Modern battles — 4,311 in the pool
• Modern battles — 4,467 in the pool
• Contemporary battles — 2,078 in the pool

Some battles you might draw

• Battle of Traigh Ghruinneart — 1598
• Battle of Helsingborg — 1710
• Battle of Bhaktapur — 1769
• Colbert raid — 1783
• Battle of Mykonos — 1794
• Battle of Gonzales — 1835
• Battle of Lipantitlán — 1835
• Battle of Kohima — 1944
• Uzbin Valley ambush — 2008
• 2011 southern Israel cross-border attacks — 2011
• Battle of Alasay — 2009
• Battle of Mount Tumbledown — 1982

Play today's War Wordle → · Or explore the full map instead →