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Street-view guessing, flag identification, country outlines and the entire Wordle-for-maps genre. Educational as an accident of being fun.
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Video walks through a real city, and your job is to work out which one from the shopfronts, number plates and pedestrians.
A flag revealed six squares at a time, which sounds straightforward until you meet the fourth consecutive tricolour.
Three dishes a day and you name the country that cooks them, which teaches more about world cuisine than it means to.
A three-by-three grid of geographic categories where you name one country per cell and get scored on how obscure it was.
A community-built geography quiz mixing street view, flags and country outlines, with private lobbies for a group of you.
One mystery country a day, guessed by warmth — every wrong answer shades the globe a little closer to the right one.
Clickable map quizzes for every region on Earth, unfashionable in design and better than everything that has replaced it.
Name every station on a city's metro map from memory, and find out how many lines you use daily without ever reading.
A photograph from the last century that you place on both a map and a timeline, which is much harder than either alone.
Guess the country from a treemap of what it exports, which turns out to be an oddly precise national fingerprint.
Get from one country to another by naming every country in between, with the shortest workable route scoring best.
Plain map and flag quizzes covering every continent, aimed at classrooms and quietly excellent for adults as well.
The free, open-source answer to GeoGuessr, with unlimited rounds, a daily challenge and multiplayer that costs nothing.
Guess the country from its silhouette alone, with each miss handing you the distance and compass bearing to the real answer.
One button, one detour. Press it as often as you like.