Strata (FlightQ)

Strata is one of the daily geography games on FlightQ. Instead of clues or a street photo, it shows a real city as an interactive 3D model seen from above, built from elevation and map data, and strips it back to the shape of the land.

You have five guesses. The first view is topography alone: hills, valleys, coastline and the city's footprint. Each miss tells you how far your guess was from the answer and peels on the next layer: the local climate, then rivers, lakes and shoreline, then the road grid and highways, and last the buildings with their real footprints and heights. By the final layer the skyline usually gives the city away.

You can guess from about 5,800 cities worldwide, but each day's answer comes from a pool of about 450 well-known ones. Two daily modes run side by side: US + Canada for a gentler map and Worldwide for the full challenge. Every daily is free with no account. The free game shows ads; FlightQ Premium adds unlimited practice, advanced stats and an ad-free experience.

It suits players who know what cities look like from the air and want a map daily that rewards reading terrain rather than trivia.

The board is a square block of land you can turn and study, with the elevation range printed above it in feet and metres. If a layer tells you nothing, you can skip it and spend a guess to see the next one.