Knowhere

About Knowhere

Knowhere is a daily geography game played on a featureless globe: grid lines, but no land, sea or borders. Each round tells you which country to find and shows one other country outlined in cyan as your only point of reference.

You drag to spin the globe, click where you think the country is and submit the guess. The closer your click, the more you score, and five rounds make up a game. The reference country may be on the far side of the world from the one you are looking for, so the puzzle is as much about knowing where countries sit relative to each other as knowing the map itself.

The Daily Challenge carries a number and is the same for every player, with daily and all-time leaderboards under a name you pick. A Practice mode gives random, unlimited rounds when one daily set is not enough.

It suits geography players who find labelled maps too easy and want to test their mental picture of the globe.

How to play Knowhere

1. Open Knowhere and choose Daily Challenge.
2. Read the country you must find and note the reference country outlined in cyan.
3. Drag to spin the globe to where you think the target lies.
4. Click the spot and submit your guess, then move to the next round.
5. After five rounds, compare your score on the daily leaderboard.

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Tips

• Use the reference country's latitude: it tells you how far north or south you are looking.
• Remember the globe is round: the shortest way to the target may be over a pole.
• Practise small countries in Practice mode, since they cost the most points when missed.

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