Games

Play the world.

Six two-minute games about where things are. Every round ends on a real country — pin it, plan it, or read the guide.

Play today's Outline Same silhouette for everyone today. Six guesses.

Six games

Two minutes each. Longer if you're stubborn.

Outline Guess the country from its shape. Six guesses, a distance and a direction after each. A new one every day. Not played yetDaily · 2 min Flag Dash Ten flags, four names each. The first few are easy; the last few are the ones nobody knows. Faster is worth more. Not played yet2 min Capital Match Name the capital, or work backwards from the capital to the country. Ten rounds, four choices, by continent if you like. Not played yet2 min Pin It We name a country. You drop the pin where you think it is. Five rounds, scored by how far off you land. Not played yet3 min Border Hop Cross from one country to another by naming a chain of neighbours. Land borders only. Fewer hops is better. A new crossing daily. Not played yetDaily · 3 min Higher or Lower Two countries. Which has more people, or more land? Keep going until you miss. Every figure is sourced and dated. Not played yet2 min

Your standing

Leaderboards

Where you stand

Every score counts towards your standing. The named board lists players by the name they chose — never a real name — and opens once ten people have played that game.

How scoring works

Points for the game, XP for the map

Each game keeps its own score — six guesses in Outline are worth 120 down to 20, a flag or a capital is ten points times how rare it is plus a little for speed, a pin scores from 100 for landing inside the country to nothing at 3,000 km, a crossing scores 100 at the fewest hops, and a Higher or Lower streak is ten a round.

A tenth of every score becomes XP on your Passport Pin rank — deliberately small next to a real stamp, which is a hundred. Playing the daily Outline on consecutive days adds a streak bonus of five XP a day, up to twenty-five.

Where the facts come from

Sourced and dated, like the rest of the site

Population and land area are the World Bank's figures, each shown with its own year. Capitals are Wikidata's. Shapes, and which countries share a land border, come from Natural Earth. Flags are the flag-icons set. The exact publisher, licence and the day it was checked sit under every game.