How to play Country Guessing
Country Guessing is the best country-guessing game on the web. There's one mystery country a day, the same for everyone. Every guess gives you five clues. Find the country in as few guesses as you can.
Play today's country →The rules in 30 seconds
- Guess any country. Start typing and pick one from the list. Your first guess can be anything.
- Read the clues. Each guess becomes a row of five tiles comparing it with the mystery country.
- Close in. Green is correct, orange is close, red is wrong. Arrows show which way to go.
- Find it. When every tile turns green, you've found it. Fewest guesses wins, and time breaks ties.
Example: the answer is in the other hemisphere but on the same continent, within 3 °C, with far more people, and to the north-east.
The five clues
| Clue | Green | Orange | Red |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hemisphere | Same | – | Different |
| Continent | Same | – | Different |
| Temperature | Within 1 °C | 1–3 °C off | Over 3 °C off |
| Population | Within 5% | 5–15% off | Over 15% off |
Arrows: on temperature, ↑ means the answer is warmer and ↓ colder. On population, ↑ means more people and ↓ fewer. The direction tile is a compass needle pointing from your guess towards the answer, and it turns green only when you've found it. Hemisphere means north or south of the equator.
Continents follow the UN M49 geoscheme, so a few are surprising: Cyprus, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan count as Asia, Russia counts as Europe, Egypt is Africa and Panama is North America. Temperatures are 1991–2020 yearly averages and populations come from the World Bank.
Game modes
Daily
One country a day, the same for everyone, with unlimited guesses. A new Daily starts at midnight UTC. It gets harder through the week: easy on Monday and Tuesday, medium Wednesday to Friday and hard at the weekend. Solve it every day to build a streak, and climb the daily leaderboard: fewest guesses first, then fastest time.
Beat the Clock
Three minutes to find as many countries as you can. Each country is worth up to 10 points, and fewer the more guesses you need. Countries get harder as the run goes on. Everyone gets the same countries each day, and your first run of the day counts for the leaderboard.
Practice
A random country whenever you want, with the distance to the answer shown in kilometres. It's the best way to learn the map, and it never touches your streak or stats.
Passport
Every country you find earns a stamp in your passport, across all 193 countries. Wear a favourite as your badge, and look through your friends' passports too.
Play with friends
Sign in, choose a name, and send your friend link. When a friend opens it, you can add each other and race on the Friends leaderboard every day. When you finish the Daily, Challenge a friend sends your score (never the answer) with a link to beat it.
Tips for fewer guesses
- Open with a big, central country. Its direction arrow and population tell you a lot at once.
- Trust the needle. The compass points from your guess towards the answer, so each guess cuts the map down.
- Use temperature to find the latitude. A much warmer answer is usually closer to the equator.
- Population separates neighbours. Once you're in the right region, the arrows tell similar countries apart.
- Practise. Practice mode shows distances, which teaches you where things are.
Questions
Is Country Guessing free?
Yes. It's free, with no ads and no sign-up. Signing in with Google is optional, to keep your streak on every device.
Is it like Worldle or Countryle?
If you like Worldle, Countryle or Globle, you'll feel at home. Country Guessing adds five clues with every guess, a difficulty curve through the week, Beat the Clock, a passport to fill and friends to race.
When does the next country come out?
Every day at 00:00 UTC, for everyone at the same moment.
Can I play on my phone?
Yes. Country Guessing is built for phones first. Add it to your home screen and it opens like an app.
Will sharing my result spoil it for friends?
No. Shared results show only coloured tiles, your guess count and time, never the country.