cape town suburble · daily puzzle · open data

Which suburb is this?

how to play

Six guesses. One suburb.

Every day at midnight (SAST) a new Cape Town suburb silhouette appears. Each wrong guess tells you how far away you are, which direction to look (the arrow points from your guess toward the answer), and how warm you're getting. After three misses you get the suburb's area; after four, its first letter. Solve it and share your grid.

Normal draws answers from 113 well-known suburbs; hard draws from all 778 official planning suburbs — extensions, industrial areas, and every obscure corner of the metro. Any suburb is a valid guess in either mode, and each mode keeps its own streak.

Data: City of Cape Town Open Data Portal (Official Planning Suburbs). Distances are between suburb centroids.

lineage

Standing on the shoulders of -dles.

Cape Town Suburble follows a proud family tree: Josh Wardle's Wordle invented the daily share-grid ritual, Worldle brought it to silhouettes on a map, and Canberra Suburble — which we discovered after building this — plays the very same suburb-guessing game for Australia's capital, and got to the name first. This is the Cape Town edition: different city, same joy. If your city deserves one, the code is MIT.