Where in the World — the daily country-outline game
Where in the World is a daily geography puzzle in the style of Worldle. Each day everyone gets the same mystery country, drawn as a plain silhouette with no borders, labels, colours or sea. You have six guesses. Every wrong answer is scored by real geography: the great-circle distance from the country you guessed to the hidden one, a compass arrow pointing you toward it, and a proximity percentage. Close the gap guess by guess, then share a spoiler-free grid of coloured squares and arrows. There is no account and nothing to install — your streak and stats live in your browser.
How to play
Look at the outline and type a country name. If you are wrong, the guess is added to your list with the distance in kilometres, an arrow showing the bearing from your guess to the answer, and how close you were as a percentage. Use those hints to triangulate: a short distance with a west arrow means the answer is just west of your last guess. Solve it in six tries or fewer. When the game ends you can copy a spoiler-free result — coloured squares for how warm each guess was, plus the trail of direction arrows — and a countdown shows when the next daily puzzle unlocks at 00:00 UTC.
What this game improves
- Builds a mental map of where countries actually sit relative to each other
- Trains country-shape recognition without any labels or colour cues
- Teaches distance and direction intuition — how far apart places really are
- One quick shared puzzle a day makes it easy to compare with friends
Tips
- Open with a country near the middle of a continent so the first arrow points somewhere useful
- The arrow is the bearing from your guess to the answer — follow it, don't reverse it
- A big drop in distance between two guesses means you just crossed near the answer
- Watch the outline's proportions and coastline, not just its rough size
Skills you practice
country shapes · spatial reasoning · mental world map · distance estimation
Frequently asked questions
- Is Where in the World like Worldle?
- Yes. It shows a country's silhouette and gives you six guesses, and every wrong guess reports the distance, compass direction, and proximity to the mystery country. It is a daily puzzle — one country per day, the same for everyone.
- How often does the puzzle change?
- Once a day. A new mystery country goes live at 00:00 UTC, and everyone playing that day gets the same one. The result dialog shows a live countdown to the next puzzle.
- What do the distance and arrow mean?
- After a wrong guess, the distance is how many kilometres separate the country you guessed from the hidden one, measured as a straight line over the globe. The arrow is the compass bearing from your guess toward the answer, and the percentage is how close you are — 100% is a solve.
- How is my score calculated?
- Solving in one guess is worth the most, and each extra guess lowers the score. Finishing without solving scores zero. Your day-by-day streak counts consecutive days you have solved the puzzle.
- Can I play past days or extra rounds?
- Where in the World is one puzzle per day by design — that is what makes the shared result meaningful. For unlimited outline practice, play Country Shape Quiz, which serves a fresh silhouette every round with no daily limit.
- Is it free?
- Completely free, with no account and no app. Your streak, stats, and today's progress are stored only in your own browser.
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