About GeoGame
GeoGame is a free daily geography game that runs in your browser. One country is hidden on a 3D globe; every country you guess glows warmer the closer it lies to the hidden one, until you find it.
Who makes it
GeoGame is developed by Marco and Philipp (valena.ch) and operated from Switzerland. It is an independent project: there are no paywalls, and you can play without creating an account.
How it works
- Daily: one hidden country per day, the same for every player, playable once per day. The answer is always one of 194 sovereign countries (the 193 UN member states plus Vatican City), and every one of them comes up once before any repeats.
- Practice: unlimited rounds with a different country each time; they don't count toward the daily leaderboards.
- Party: play with friends through one invite link; everybody gets the same hidden country. Two players (the default) make a 1v1 duel: the first to find it wins, and duels move a rating on the Party Elo board. Three to 12 players make a group game with points for the fastest and no rating.
- Difficulty: Easy and Normal give extra help, such as country names on hover and a bearing toward the hidden country, and let you click a country on the globe. Expert has none: you guess by name and read only the distance and the colour. Party games are always played on Expert.
New to the game? Read how to play and the FAQ, or browse the daily archive of past answers.
How the rankings work
- Today: everyone who solved today's puzzle, fewest guesses first (faster time breaks ties). Players without an account show up as guest numbers; a guest is listed from two guesses on, so a copied answer can't take first place.
- All-time: ranked by the average number of guesses over the days a player solved, from five solved days on, so one lucky day cannot top the board. Below ten solved days the rank carries a “?”, because the average can still move a lot.
- Party Elo: an Elo-style rating that moves with every rated 1v1 duel round; beating a stronger player is worth more. Group games with three or more players are not rated.
Data
Country borders come from Natural Earth (via the world-atlas package); country names and coordinates from the open world-countries dataset. Crimea is shown as part of Ukraine. Distances are measured between the nearest borders of two countries, so neighbours are 0 km apart.
Contact
Questions, feedback or a bug? Write to marco@valena.ch. How we handle your data is explained in the privacy policy.