Metrodle vs DailyMetro: two daily Tube station games
Metrodle crops the Tube map. DailyMetro gives you a clue after every guess, across 273 London stations and 20 other cities. Play today's station free.
Yes, there is a Wordle for the metro. If you came here for the London one, there are two worth your time: Metrodle, which turns the Tube map itself into the puzzle, and DailyMetro, which I make, where you guess a mystery station from its clues. They play nothing alike and plenty of people do both. There is a third, Subwaydle, but it is New York only, so it comes last.
Metrodle: find yourself on the map
Metrodle covers London. It shows you a tight crop of the Tube map with the station names and line colours stripped out, and your mystery station sitting in the middle. Six guesses. Each wrong answer tells you how many stops away you are and in which direction, and reveals a bit more of the crop. It's a map-reading puzzle more than a trivia one: you win by recognising the shape of the network.
DailyMetro: guess the station from its clues
DailyMetro is mine. Every day there's one mystery station, and each guess compares your station to it across a row of clues: which lines you share, a compass arrow pointing toward the answer, the length of the name, and the neighborhood. No guess cap, you keep narrowing until the row goes green, and the fewer guesses you need the more points you score.
The London edition runs on 273 Underground stations, from the Central line out to Epping to the District crawling west to Richmond, and London is one of four cities with a Photo mode where you identify a station from a picture of its real street entrance. The New York edition runs on 442 stations across 22 services. There are 21 city editions in all, seven live today and a new one launching every week or two through October, plus a Map mode everywhere (the station is marked on a blank map, each wrong guess peels back a layer). If you'd rather browse than guess, the network explorer has a page per line and per station.
Subwaydle: guess the trip, not the station
Subwaydle is the original New York one, built by Sunny Ng, a software developer from NYC. You don't guess a station. You guess a whole subway trip: three trains, two transfers, and you have six chances to find the right combination. Each guess has to be a ride you could genuinely take, and the feedback is pure Wordle: a line shows green if it's on the route in the right position, yellow if it's on the route but in the wrong spot, gray if it's not on the route at all. There's a hint that reveals the start and end stations if you're stuck.
It's the hardest of the three by a wide margin. If you're the kind of person who knows where the M runs on weekends, this is your game.
The short version
| Game | City | You guess | Tries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metrodle | London | a station, on a map crop | 6 |
| DailyMetro | London + 20 cities | a station, from clues | no cap |
| Subwaydle | New York | a 3-train trip | 6 |
They exercise different muscles. Subwaydle tests whether you can route a trip, Metrodle tests whether you can read the map, DailyMetro tests whether you know the stations themselves. I play all three, which is probably too much time thinking about trains before 9am. If you want the field city by city, there is a page on New York's subway games and a tour of the whole genre by family.
FAQ
Is there a Wordle for the subway?
Several. For London, Metrodle turns the Tube map into the puzzle and DailyMetro has you guess the station from its clues. Subwaydle covers New York trips.
Is DailyMetro free?
Yes. No account, no app to install, one new station every day at midnight local time.
What's a good Subwaydle alternative if I don't know New York routes?
DailyMetro is gentler: you guess single stations, not full trips, and the clues (shared lines, direction, neighborhood) teach you the network as you play.