SatPin (SatPixel)

SatPin is one of the satellite games on SatPixel, a site built around Esri and Maxar satellite imagery. In SatPin Daily, each round fills the screen with a view from above: a forest with a winding river, a coastline, a city grid. A small world map sits in the corner, and you zoom in and click where you think the view is, then press Guess. A result card then names the place, shows the distance between your pin and the real spot on a map, and gives the round's points, with a link to open the spot in Google Maps.

The daily set has five rounds, with a running score at the top. Your points depend on distance: the closer your pin lands, the higher the round's score. The clues are the ones you would read from space: river courses, road patterns, field shapes, building layouts and the colour of the land.

Beyond the daily, SatPin has some 20 themed categories, split between human works such as mega dams, artificial islands, planned cities and energy fields, and natural sights such as volcanoes, atolls and river deltas. The site's other games include SatZoom, where you name a city as a satellite view zooms out. SatPixel also runs SatQuiz top-50 sets of airports, islands, lakes and seaports. The game is in English, Chinese and Spanish, plays in a phone or desktop browser with no account, and carries Google ads on the page.