What is Tastedle?
Tastedle shows you a photo of a dish and asks you to name its country of origin. The game is designed for people who know food rather than geography: four clue buttons reveal the main ingredients, the cooking method, the flavour and style, and when the dish is eaten. Each clue you unlock reduces your score. Even if you only identify the region or continent, you still earn points.
How to play Tastedle
- Examine the photo of the dish. The image itself is free.
- Buy a clue if the photo alone does not help. Main ingredients, cooking method, and flavour and style each cost 300 points. When the dish is eaten costs 200 points.
- Type a country name and submit. You have six guesses in total.
- Continue after a wrong guess. The first miss reveals the continent and the second reveals the sub-region, narrowing the board with each attempt.
Scoring and feedback
Each dish starts at 5,000 points before you interact with it. The total drops by the cost of any clues you buy. When the round ends, you keep a percentage of what remains based on your best guess: 100% for the exact country, 50% for the correct sub-region, 20% for the right continent, and nothing if you miss the continent entirely. Wrong guesses give you geographic hints instead, with the continent shown after one miss and the sub-region after two.
Why the clues matter
Most country-guessing games depend on maps. Tastedle tests your food knowledge instead: its clues read like a recipe card. A curing method or fermented base can lead you to a region without showing you its borders. The scoring rewards that partial knowledge, even when you cannot name the exact country. Dish photos and facts come from Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia under CC BY-SA, so the images show actual meals rather than stock photography.
Game modes
Daily: Guess one mystery dish each day. The site records your play count, win rate, streak, and best score.
Unlimited: The page describes this as “? Unlimited mode, endless dishes.”
Connections: Sort 16 dishes into their countries.
Higher or Lower: The page describes this as “? Higher or Lower, guess the more famous dish.”
Tips for better scores
Study the photo before spending points. Sauce colour, pan shape, garnish, and crockery are the only free clues.
A wild guess costs less than a clue. One miss reveals the continent; two misses reveal the sub-region. The ingredients button costs 300 points on its own.
Guess even when you know only the region. A neighbouring country earns 50% of the pot, which is better than ending the round with unused guesses.
Common questions
Does a near miss score anything?
Yes. The exact country earns 100% of the remaining pot, the same sub-region earns 50%, and the correct continent earns 20%. A wrong continent earns zero.
Can I play more than one dish a day?
Yes. Unlimited mode uses the same format without a daily cap. The site also has a 16-dish Connections grid and a Higher or Lower round.