About Country Seeker

One mystery country a day. Guess, and the globe warms up as you close in.

A daily hot-and-cold hunt for a mystery country on the 3D globe. Every guess is coloured by how close its border is to the answer, so each one narrows the search. Good guesses come from knowing your neighbours and roughly how far apart places are. If you've played Globle, it works the same way, with continent, country and US state maps as well as the world. (Geographys isn't affiliated with Globle.)

How it works

1. 1Type any country as a guess, or tap one on the globe.
2. 2Each guess lights up by how close it is to the mystery country: pale is far, deep red is close. 0 km means it touches.
3. 3Fewer guesses score more. Everyone gets the same mystery country each day; Practice gives you a random one.

Tips

• Open with a big country in the middle of a continent. Its distance rules out a lot of the map at once.
• Distances are measured border to border, not between centres, so a big country can read close even when the answer is on its far side.
• 0 km means touching. Once you hit a neighbour, the answer is one of its neighbours.
• Tap the globe when you know where a country is but not how to spell it.

Questions

Which countries can be the answer?

Any country on the globe, weighted toward the ones most players know. An answer doesn't come back for about two months.

What if two countries only touch at a corner?

That counts as touching: 0 km.

When is there a new daily?

Every day at midnight where you are. Everyone gets the same puzzle on the same date, and practice rounds are random.

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