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; it changes at midnight US Eastern Time. Before your first daily you pick a leaderboard name, with no account or password, and your score goes on the daily and all-time boards. From the 21st daily on, small countries and microstates joined the targets, so the hard rounds can ask for places like Andorra. 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.