Country Draft

Country Draft is a short drafting game on Countrivo, a site of free geography games. Each day it serves one board, the same for every player, and you build a cabinet of five people from around the world. The board changes at midnight Berlin time.

Each of the five rounds offers three countries. Opening a country locks it in, and shows three of its famous people: leaders, soldiers, economists, writers, scientists and others. You choose one and give them a job that is still open: Leader, Army, Money, Voice or Science and ideas. Only after you confirm the appointment do you see its points, so you cannot test every person in every seat before deciding. The reveal splits the points into career fit and fame, gives a one-line reason (Soichiro Honda worked as an engineer, so he fits Science and ideas) with a link to its source, and lets you see the other people you passed over that round.

Each appointment earns up to 25 points for how well the person fits the job and up to 10 for how famous they are. On top of that come three cabinet bonuses: 8 when every job is a plausible fit, 6 for drafting from three world regions and 6 for mixing eras, with someone from before 1900 and someone from after 1950. The best possible total is 195, and the map paints that many countries. Par is 140.

There is no login. After a daily game you can add a name to the leaderboard, and a practice mode gives fresh boards that never touch the daily leaderboard. The next day, the page shows the best cabinet that could have been drafted from yesterday's board. It suits players who like history and geography and enjoy a quick decision game more than a quiz.