Guess the country
Guess the country is a daily geography game with one country to name and six guesses to do it in. Type any of the 189 countries in the set and the game tells you how far your guess sits from the answer and which direction to travel. There is no map and no outline to read, which is deliberate: the country is shown by a landmark or a landscape when the round ends, so no disputed border is ever drawn.
What a miss tells you
Feedback here is pure distance. Every miss returns the number of kilometres between your guess and the answer, an arrow pointing the bearing you need to move along, and a closeness score out of 100. A guess on the far side of the world scores near zero; a neighbouring country scores in the nineties. The arrow is worth more than the score, because two countries can sit the same distance away in opposite directions.
A worked round
Say the answer is Portugal and you open with Brazil. The distance comes back around 7,000 km with the arrow pointing northeast, which rules out the whole of South America in one move. Guess Morocco next and you are inside 600 km with the arrow swinging north. The first clue has told you the continent by now, so Europe plus that bearing leaves Portugal and Spain, and the third guess ends it.
The clues
Six clues sit above the board and one opens after every wrong guess, running broad to specific: continent, population, area, currency, capital starts with, capital.
Common questions
How many countries can I guess?
All 189 in the set are typeable, and the suggestion list only offers real ones, so a typo can never cost you a guess.
Does it show a map?
No. The reveal is a photograph of a landmark or a landscape, never a map or a border, so the game does not have to take a position on any disputed boundary.
What are the six clues?
Continent, population, area, currency, the letter the capital starts with, and finally the capital itself. They run broad to specific, one opening after each wrong guess.