How much do you know about international trade? If you think you're a trade whiz, then test yourself on Tradle. Yes, it is a blatant rip-off of Wordle. Each day, you get presented with a graphic (a 'treemap') showing the exports of a particular country. You get six guesses to guess which country it is. After each guess, Tradle will tell you how far away, and in which direction, your selected country is from the country you are trying to guess. With a combination of geographical and international trade knowledge, you can get there.
Today's [*] Tradle was this one:
By way of bragging, I got it in three guesses. However, it was a total guess, because who knew that country's biggest export category was integrated circuits?
Tradle is brought to you by the same folks behind the 'Atlas of Economic Opportunity' (that I referenced in this 2017 post), and now called the Observatory of Economic Opportunity (OEC). Enjoy!
[HT: Jack Tame in this New Zealand Herald article]
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[*] I'm a little worried that Tradle doesn't get updated every day, as when I tried to share the results, it looked like it was posted on 6 March (at least, it was labelled "#Tradle #29 3/6"). Anyway, even playing it once was fun for a quick diversion. [Update: Tradle does appear to be updating each day. I didn't do so well today (5 April), essentially choosing every country bordering the correct answer along the way!]
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