Wheredle

A Google Street View panorama loads, complete with its compass and zoom controls, and the only question is which US state you are standing in. There is no text box: the answer goes in through a dropdown that holds the fifty states and nothing else, so the whole game happens before you click, in the signage, the plates, the road paint and the trees. The page describes itself as Wordle-like with a detective spin on Street View, and it now runs on locations sent in by players rather than a curated list.

1. Look around the panorama. It is a live Street View embed, so you can pan, zoom and read what is written on things.
2. Open the dropdown marked "Guess:" and pick a state. The list runs Alabama to Wyoming and there is no free typing.
3. Press Submit, and watch the small grid of tiles that sits between the panorama and the guess bar.

Fifty options sounds like a gentle answer set, and it turns out to be a demanding one: there is no free text to half-remember your way through and no map to drop a pin on, so you have to justify a state before you can even enter it. That pushes you into the genuinely fun part of Street View sleuthing: highway shield shapes, licence plates, the species of tree on the verge, the brand on a shopfront. And since the locations now come from players rather than a curated list, the panoramas belong to people who wanted to show you where they live.

The page states that the game works like Wordle on Street View clues, and a small grid of tiles sits between the panorama and the guess bar. The shape of the answer is fixed: one of fifty states, chosen from a list, with no partial spelling and no map pin involved.

Daily

One Street View location a day, per the site's own description of itself as a daily game.

• Treat the dropdown as a checklist. It holds the fifty states only, with no District of Columbia and no territories, so anything outside that list is not the answer.
• Do not settle for the first frame. The embed keeps its Street View compass and zoom, so a road sign two hundred metres down the street is fair game before you commit.