Antipodal

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A red marker sits on the globe: name the place on the exact opposite side of Earth.

Play Antipodal

on antipodal.fun

Antipodal share card: a globe with a red point and its green antipode joined by a dotted line

Antipodal shows a red marker on a 3D globe and asks for its antipode, the point straight through the centre of the Earth. You get five guesses, each answered with a distance and a warmer or colder hint. One new location a day.

About Antipodal

Antipodal is a geography puzzle about opposite points. The day's mystery location is marked in red on a globe you can spin and zoom, and the answer is whatever lies exactly on the other side of the planet: a country, an ocean or a sea.

Each guess tells you how far it lands from the true antipode, and whether it is warmer or colder than your last try, so the five guesses work like a search that closes in on the spot.

The twist is that most of the planet's antipodes are water: the site notes that only about 15 percent of land has land on its far side. A marker over a continent will usually point to an ocean, and that is often the right first guess.

There is one puzzle a day for everyone. A paid Pro option adds unlimited extra puzzles, but the daily one is free.

How to play Antipodal

Spin the globe and find the red marker: that is today's location.
Work out roughly where the opposite point on Earth would be.
Type a country, ocean or sea and submit your guess.
Read the distance and the warmer or colder hint, then guess again.
Name the antipode within five guesses.

Screenshots

Antipodal game screen: a 3D Earth with a red marker in the Pacific beside the Guess the Antipode box

Tips

Flip the latitude (north becomes south) and move 180 degrees of longitude to find the rough area.
When the marker is on land, start with an ocean: most land is opposite water.
Use the first guess for direction and the warmer or colder hints to narrow it down.