Flank (Mind Loft)

Flank tests whether you can picture a map. The day's country is named at the top, the number of its land neighbours is shown as empty slots, and you type them one at a time. A correct neighbour banks itself as soon as you finish typing it; a misspelling costs nothing, but naming a real country that does not border the target is a strike, and three strikes end the game.

The week has a shape. Monday starts with a country that has only one border, the difficulty climbs a step each day, and Sunday's edition brings the biggest board of the week with a fourth strike to use (Zambia and its eight neighbours on 18 October 2026; the site says a Sunday can reach a fourteen-neighbour giant). Everyone plays the same country each day, so the leaderboard ranks most borders named, then fewest wrong guesses, then time.

A new country arrives every day at midnight Eastern, and past boards stay playable in the archive. The board works the same on a phone: the slots ring the country and the entry box sits below them. Mind Loft's other geography dailies are Atlas, a twenty-five-question quiz with one life, Span, a border chain, and Ping, a secret city.