Today's map · No. 1
Same seven prompts for everyone. A new map every day at midnight UTC. No account.
Every day the whole world gets the same seven prompts, like a country with red in its flag. Type a country or a city that fits. When the name is recognised, its flag appears. Press Lock in. You get one answer per prompt and 20 seconds.
Any answer that fits counts. Your distance depends on how many other players named the same place: the rarer your right answer, the further off the beaten path you travel.
A dragon hides in most prompts. It is a bonus, not part of the prompt: the line marked Bonus under the prompt is a clue that about ten of the right answers fit, and the dragon hides in one of them. Name that one and you've found the dragon: +1,500 km. It's a gamble, because everyone sees the same clue and the places that fit it get crowded. A place is never the dragon twice in a month, and prompts with too many possible answers have no dragon.
Names work in many languages (Norge, Deutschland, Moskva) and small typos are forgiven. Add the country to pick between cities with the same name: "Valencia, Venezuela".
Before each day starts, the Machine (1,000 simulated players) takes the obvious answers and some of it chases the clue, so rarity works from the very first player. Real players' picks pile on top during the day.
Data: Natural Earth (public domain), GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), world-countries (ODbL), flag-icons (MIT).
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