Fjordle: A Daily Norwegian Fjord Guessing Game
A daily Norwegian fjord guessing game with 1,467 fjords, ship tracking, and a fjord explorer
What it is
Fjordle is a daily puzzle where you guess a Norwegian fjord from its outline shape. There are 1,467 fjords in the game. But it is also a Norwegian geography platform with a fjord explorer, county browsing, a live Hurtigruten ship tracker, and detailed fact pages for every fjord.
What I did
I built it before a trip to Norway. I generated SVG outlines and satellite images for all 1,467 fjords. The game is in Norwegian (bokmål) and English. I built a hint system with six types: first letter, satellite image, municipality, county, measurements, and live weather. There is also a ship tracking page that shows real-time positions of Hurtigruten and Havila Kystruten vessels along the Bergen-Kirkenes coastal route using AIS data from BarentsWatch.
How it works
Each day you get a fjord outline and six tries. After each guess you see distance, direction, and proximity percentage. Difficulty tiers update monthly based on how players are doing. A GitHub Action assigns a new fjord every day at 01:00 UTC.
Outside the daily puzzle, you can browse all 1,467 fjords organized by county, read fact pages with Wikipedia links and measurements, and check your stats over time. The statistics page tracks win rate, streaks, hint usage, and difficulty breakdown.