Dickle — guess the average penis size by country. A free daily game built on published studies.
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Dickle is a free daily game about a number everyone has an opinion on and almost nobody has actually looked up. Every day you get one country, and you try to guess its published average penis size in centimetres or inches. You get five guesses, with higher-or-lower hints along the way, and you win if you land within 0.15 cm. The country changes every day at midnight your time, so there's always a fresh one waiting when you wake up.
The measure is stretched length, the figure urology studies report, because a clinician measures it with a ruler instead of trusting a self-reported number, and it tracks erect length closely. The worldwide average is 12.93 cm (Belladelli et al., World J Mens Health, 2023 (55,761 men)). Every country in the game is tied to a specific published study, and the reveal screen names it.
If you play Wordle or Globle, it's the same kind of thing: a quick puzzle you do once a day, plus a streak you'll want to keep going. Check back tomorrow for a new country.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Dickle?
Dickle is a free daily browser game where you guess the average penis size in a different country each day. You get five tries and hotter/colder feedback after each guess.
How do you play Dickle?
Each day you get one country. Type in your best guess of the country's published average, in centimetres or inches; there's a toggle next to the guess box. After every guess, Dickle tells you whether the real figure is higher or lower and how close you got. Land within 0.15 cm (0.06 in) to win. You have five guesses.
Which measurement does Dickle use?
Stretched length, measured from the pubic bone to the tip. It's the figure urology studies actually report, because a clinician measures it with a ruler instead of relying on self-reported numbers, and it tracks erect length closely. Using one consistent measure is the only way the countries can be compared at all.
Where do the numbers come from?
Every country in the game is tied to a specific published study, and the reveal screen names it: the authors, the year, how many men were measured, and the method. Most come from peer-reviewed urology journals such as European Urology, BJU International and the International Journal of Impotence Research.
Are the figures accurate?
They're the published figures, but treat them loosely. The studies differ in method: some press the ruler into the pubic bone and some don't, sample sizes range from dozens to thousands, and a few are decades old. The differences between individual men within any one country are far larger than the differences between countries.
Is Dickle free to play?
Yes, it's completely free. You don't need an account or a download, and it works in any browser on your phone or computer.
How often does Dickle update?
The country changes every day at midnight your time, so there's a new puzzle each morning.
Does Dickle save my streak?
Yes. Your results and streak are saved right in your browser, so just play each day to keep the streak going. Nothing gets uploaded and there's no sign-in.
What is a good daily game to play instead of Wordle?
It depends what you want tested. Wordle is vocabulary; Worldle and Globle are geography; Framed is film; Nerdle is arithmetic; Tradle and Dickle are both built on published data about countries. Most people end up with a rotation of three or four rather than one, since they take two minutes each. Dickle keeps a list of the ones that have lasted, with honest descriptions, at /daily-games.
How is Dickle different from other daily country games?
Nearly every daily country game asks you to identify a country: Worldle from its outline, Flagle from its flag, Tradle from its exports. Dickle inverts that. It names the country and asks you to put a number on it, which is a different and less comfortable skill, because you find out immediately that your instinct for a figure you have never looked up is worse than it feels. The figure is always a published study average, with the authors, year, sample size and measurement method shown on the reveal.
What should I play if I like Dickle?
Pricele, which is the closest thing to it anywhere: it names a country and an everyday item and asks what the thing costs there, in five tries, on the same hotter/colder scale. It is built by the same person as Dickle and to the same rule, so every price prints the source it came from and the date it was collected. Beyond that, Tradle is the best of the rest for the same instinct — a real dataset played as a daily puzzle. Worldle and Globle if you would rather identify a country than put a number on one. All of them are free and take about two minutes.
Are Dickle and Pricele made by the same people?
Yes. Both are made by the same person and run on the same principle: the game names a country, asks you for a published figure, and then shows you exactly where the real figure came from. Dickle uses average stretched penile length from peer-reviewed urology studies; Pricele uses the price of everyday things from sources including The Economist's Big Mac Index and the World Bank. Neither invents a number to fill a gap — a country with no published source is left out rather than estimated.
Is Dickle reliable?
Every figure in the game comes from a named published study, and the reveal screen shows you the authors, the journal, the year, how many men were measured and the measurement method, so any figure can be checked against its source. Countries with no traceable primary study are labelled as such rather than filled in from an aggregator, and countries with no published measured study are left out of the game entirely. The full table is published as an openly licensed dataset at /data, and the ways these numbers can be wrong are set out at /methodology rather than left for you to find.
What is the worldwide average penis size?
The largest pooled analysis to date puts the worldwide mean stretched length at 12.93 cm. Source: Belladelli et al., World J Mens Health, 2023 (55,761 men). Dickle shows you how each country's published figure compares with it.