Metro Wordle: every daily transit guessing game, compared
Yes, there is a Wordle for the metro. Three of them, actually. Here is what Subwaydle, Metrodle and DailyMetro each play like, from someone who made one.
Yes, there is a Wordle for the metro. There are at least three, and they play nothing alike. I made one of them (DailyMetro), so instead of pretending the others don't exist, here is the honest tour: what each game actually asks of you, and which one fits the kind of transit nerd you are.
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.
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 New York edition runs on 442 stations across 22 services, from the A out to the Rockaways to the 7 crossing Queens. And it's not just New York: there are 21 city editions, seven live today and a new one launching every week or two through October. There's also a Map mode in every city (the station is marked on a blank map, each wrong guess peels back a layer), and a Photo mode in four cities where you identify a station from a picture of its street entrance. If you'd rather browse than guess, the network explorer has a page per line and per station.
The short version
| Game | City | You guess | Tries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subwaydle | New York | a 3-train trip | 6 |
| Metrodle | London | a station, on a map crop | 6 |
| DailyMetro | 21 cities | a station, from clues | no cap |
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.
FAQ
Is there a Wordle for the subway?
Several. Subwaydle for New York trips, Metrodle for the London map, and DailyMetro for guessing stations in 21 cities including New York.
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.