The rules

How to play

3 topics. Five questions each. Answered on the map.

Solo

  • 3 matches a day: football, formula 1 and landmarks.
  • Play every day to build my streak. Missed one? It's in Past games.
  • Everyone gets the same questions, so a score is a fair dare.

Share my score

  • After any match, send my score: no answers, just the number and five colored squares.
  • Anyone with the link plays the same match and tries to beat it.
  • No account needed, for me or for them.

Leagues

  • The people I play with every day: friends, family or the office.
  • Our daily scores line up on their own, with a week's winner every Sunday.
  • Needs a free account.

Invite friends

My invite link

My own link brings friends in: from Invite friends or a league invite. XP only: it never changes a score, a league or the leaderboard. Up to 10 friends a month count.

  • +100 XPfor me, when a friend I invited plays their first 3 daily matches
  • +50 XPfor them, the moment they do

Five steps, one match

  1. Pick a topicFootball, Formula 1, Landmarks. Each has its own 5 questions every day, the same for everyone.
  2. Find it on the globeDrag to rotate, scroll or pinch to zoom. Every answer is a real place with a real latitude and longitude.
  3. Place my pinTap the map to drop a pin. Tap somewhere else, or drag the pin, to move it. Nothing is submitted until I say so.
  4. Lock it inThe closer my pin is to the answer, the more of the 100 points I keep. Then I get the right place, how far off I was, and the story behind it.
  5. Finish all five500 points is a perfect score. Share my squares without giving anything away, and come back tomorrow to keep my streak alive.

Scoring

Measured as a straight line across the surface of the earth. The same in every topic.

Exact
100
50 miles
98
100 miles
95
250 miles
85
500 miles
70
1,000 miles
50
2,500 miles
25
5,000 miles
5
Other side of the world
0

XP, with an account

XP never goes down. Each match earns it once, on its own day.

Finish a daily match
+20
Each Great answer
+10
Each Close answer
+5
Score 200 to 499
+10 to +30
Perfect 500
+50
Streak of 3, 7 or 30 days
+5 to +15

Score colors

Every answer gets a color, and my shared squares show them.

  • 90–100Great
  • 50–89Close
  • 1–49Far
  • 0Extreme miss

More questions? The FAQ has short answers on accounts, leagues, emails and privacy.

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