how to play outline
Outline is a free daily geography game. You see the shape of a country with no map around it and get six guesses to name it. Every wrong guess shows how far it is from the answer, which direction to head, and how close you are as a percentage.
- Look at the outline. Islands and nearby pieces are included, faraway territories are not.
- Type a country, or browse the full list of countries. Small typos are fine: frnace still finds France. Tap a name once to fill it in, then again (or press guess) to send it.
- A miss shows the distance in kilometers, an arrow pointing toward the answer, and a closeness score: 100% is right on top of it.
- Find it in six guesses. Easy uses big, well-known countries; hard uses smaller ones.
- Your results show the country on a globe, with your guesses colored by how close they were.
Keyboard: Type on your keyboard, arrow keys move between suggestions, Enter guesses, Backspace deletes, and Esc goes back to the menu.
tips
- A big first guess in the middle of a continent tells you a lot from the arrow alone.
- Distances are measured between the middle of each country, so neighbors can still be a few hundred kilometers apart.
- The outlines use the same projection as most online maps, so countries near the poles look stretched, just like you've seen them.
faq
Is there a new country every day?
Yes, at midnight in your time zone. The daily list goes through every outline before any country comes back. Practice in solo mode never deals a country that's coming up as a daily in the next month.
Which countries are in it?
You can guess any of the 193 UN member states. The answers are the countries whose outlines are detailed enough to recognize at this scale, leaving out a few whose borders are drawn differently by different maps.
Where does the map data come from?
Country outlines and center points come from Natural Earth (public domain). Center points for the smallest countries come from Wikidata (CC0).
How is it scored?
By the number of guesses it took, from one to six. The share shows how close each guess was and which way it pointed, never the country.