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Find the secret country. Every guess tells you how far away it is and which way it lies, so two good guesses narrow the world a long way.
Nearest so far
Nothing yet. Name any country in the world.
6 of 6 guesses left
Open somewhere far from home. A guess on the other side of the world tells you more than a near miss.
Hotter
Find the secret country. Every guess tells you how far away it is and which way it lies, so two good guesses narrow the world a long way.
- Type any country and send it.Back comes the distance in kilometres and an arrow: the direction the answer lies in from the one you named. Open somewhere big and far away, such as Brazil or Australia, and you learn more than a poke at your own country.
- Name a second country in the direction the arrow pointed.Now you have two distances from two known places, and there are usually only a few countries left that could be that far from both. This is the guess that does the work.
- Watch for hotter and colder.That is only ever a comparison with the guess before. Here is what people get wrong: the arrow is the direction you would set off in, not the direction on a flat map, so a country can look east of you on the atlas and the arrow still say north east. On a round earth that is the shorter way. Distances are measured between the middle of each country, so a huge one like Russia can read as far away while its border is close.
Scored on guesses.
What the words mean
- The country:
- the secret country you are looking for. It is one of the 194, chosen by today's date, and it is the same one for everybody in the world today
- The list:
- every country there is, so there is nothing to learn about which ones we happen to have included. If it is a country you can name it, and the answer is always one of them
- Distance:
- how far the secret country is from the one you named, in kilometres between the middle of each, measured the short way round the actual globe rather than across a flat map
- The arrow:
- which way the secret country lies from your guess, to the nearest of eight compass points. It is the direction you would set off in, which on a round earth is not always the direction it looks on an atlas
- Hotter:
- ▲, nearer the answer than your last guess
- Colder:
- ▼, further from the answer than your last guess
- Guess:
- one country, typed in. You get 6 of them, and the first one is worth spending somewhere big and far away