Energle is a daily country-guessing puzzle built around electricity generation data. Read the energy charts, enter a country, and use the feedback to find the answer within six guesses.
We completed Daily puzzle #149 on 28 October 2026 inside an iframe, solving it in two valid guesses without outside solution help. Before that, an intentionally invalid country name gave us a useful distinction: a spelling rejection and a wrong country did not have the same cost.
Read the electricity profile before spending a guess
Our puzzle showed 88.5 TWh of total generation and electricity demand of 4.5 MWh per person. Beneath those headline figures, a historical chart covered 2000–2025 and a stacked bar broke down the latest year's generation. Solar supplied 25% and hydro 22% in this particular puzzle, alongside several other sources. Those proportions gave us more to work with than a single “renewable country” label.
The By category checkbox changed both charts. Instead of separate fuels, the latest mix became 66% renewables and 34% fossil generation, while the historical lines also regrouped. We would use that broader view to form a first hypothesis, then return to the source view to distinguish solar, hydro and wind. The broad percentage hides differences that can matter when choosing a country.
A rejected name and a wrong country have different costs
Entering Atlantis produced “not found — check spelling” and left the counter at 6/6. Entering Portugal was accepted and reduced it to 5/6. That makes checking a rejected name's spelling worthwhile before abandoning it; in our test, the rejection itself spent no attempt.
Portugal then received a southwest hint and a distance of 10,571 km. Its row also showed 51.1 TWh and 5.8 MWh per person. Those were Portugal's figures, rather than replacements for the target country's original clues. Keeping the two profiles separate matters when comparing a candidate against the mystery country.
The row displayed 0% closeness, but its explicit direction-and-distance hint gave us a geographic next step. We moved the search southwest of Portugal, and our next valid guess solved the puzzle. For this round, the 10,571 km hint was the reason to leave Portugal behind and look much farther southwest, rather than keep testing nearby countries with similar fuels.
The win led to a display-name prompt
The result screen showed our two-guess path, a next-puzzle countdown, and Stats and Share buttons. A display-name prompt then interrupted navigation and warned that the leaderboard name could not be changed later. We stopped before entering one, so we did not verify the leaderboard or explore other modes.
For the tested daily puzzle, the useful habit was to combine two kinds of evidence: read the electricity profile to choose a candidate, then use its geographic feedback to decide where to look next.
