{"id":10472,"date":"2022-03-11T17:38:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T08:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=10472"},"modified":"2022-03-11T17:38:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T08:38:49","slug":"20220311-10472","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220311-10472\/","title":{"rendered":"Tradle brings the Wordle formula to international trade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Written by. Nick Mosier based on the\u00a0original Japanese article<\/a>\u00a0(original article’s publication date: 2022-03-11 16:06<\/em> JST)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


An engineer by the name of Alexander Simoes has released Tradle<\/strong><\/em>, a game where players reference a treemap of a country\u2019s exports to guess which country it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the game\u2019s webpage, the game was inspired by another game called Worldle<\/em> which itself was inspired by Wordle<\/em>. You could say Tradle<\/em> is almost like a grandchild of Wordle<\/em> in a sense. It has the Wordle<\/em> DNA to an extent but takes the concept in a completely different direction to be about trade and exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Players guess country names based on the treemap they are presented. And like Wordle<\/em>, your guess also acts as a hint. In the case of Tradle<\/em>, if you enter the wrong country, the game gives you the distance and direction the country you guessed is from the correct answer. Like Wordle<\/em> and the many iterative works based on it, players have 6 guesses to choose the correct country.
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I (the original author of this article) decided to give the game a try and see what it\u2019s all about. Tradle<\/em> selects a different country each day and today\u2019s (March 11) country seems to be a big exporter of centrifuges and insulated wire. To be honest, I had no idea, so I just entered \u201cJapan.\u201d After that, the game told me the country was actually 9,233 km to the west in what was probably somewhere in the middle of Europe. Undeterred, I opened Google Earth and tried to guess countries that looked like they might export centrifuges, but to no avail. I took 6 guesses and didn\u2019t figure it out. But the process of looking at geographical relations and thinking about what countries manufacture actually sparked my curiosity. It\u2019s still pretty fun, even if you don\u2019t figure it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tradle<\/em><\/a> is available to play for free via web browsers. If you\u2019re the inquisitive type, you should give it a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Tradle<\/em> runs on the domain of the OEC (Observatory of Economic Complexity), which is a data visualization platform centered around international trade, with data based on bills of lading used in marine transport. Tradle<\/em> developer Simoes is the CTO and co-founder of Datawheel, the developers and designers behind OEC. Simoes also appears to have a number of other visualization projects<\/a> that make data easier to understand. By linking trade statistics and fun, Tradle<\/em> helps give data a little more meaning to its players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n