What's new
Recent improvements to the game, newest first.
July 23, 2026
About, privacy, and one-click account deletion
The site now explains itself: an About page covers how puzzles are built and how to get in touch, and a privacy policy spells out exactly what's stored where (short version: nothing leaves your device unless you sign in). And if you ever want out, your account — and every saved result — can now be deleted permanently from account settings, no email required.
Read the About page →July 23, 2026
Your daily record, at a glance
The daily challenge now shows your personal stats — dailies played, puzzles solved, current and best streak, and your best score — on the start screen and again with your result. Everything is counted on your device from the dailies you've already played, so your history is there from day one.
See your stats →July 23, 2026
What's new (this page!)
The site now keeps player-facing release notes. Whenever something changes — a new feature, a rule tweak, a fix you'd notice — it gets an entry here, and a badge on the menu bar lets you know there's something you haven't seen.
Browse the changelog →July 23, 2026
One navigation bar, everywhere
Every page — game screens included — now shares a single sticky navigation bar with the daily, free play, the leaderboard, the country index and the claim index, plus your account menu. On phones it folds into a proper menu. It mirrors whattheday's navigation, so the two games feel like one family.
July 22, 2026
Accounts and a daily leaderboard
You can now sign in — with Google or an email and password, the same accounts system as whattheday — and your daily score lands on a leaderboard ranked against everyone who played today's six puzzles. Playing without an account works exactly as before; signing in is only needed to be ranked.
See today's leaderboard →July 19, 2026
The facts behind every claim
When a round ends, each claim now unfolds into the actual fact it was built on — the answer's real population, its actual borders, the flag in question — so every reveal teaches you something concrete instead of just marking you right or wrong.
July 19, 2026
Type it your way
The guess box now forgives diacritics, common aliases and small typos: Turkiye finds Türkiye, Ivory Coast finds Côte d'Ivoire, and "Khazakstan" still gets you Kazakhstan. Less time fighting the spelling, more time deducing.
Try it in free play →July 16, 2026
Study pages for all 195 countries and every claim
New learning layer: every country has a profile page — key facts, land borders, flag colors, and every claim in the game that's true of it, rarest first — and every claim has a page listing exactly which countries satisfy it. Reveal screens link straight to the answer's profile, so every game can end in a rabbit hole.
Browse the countries →July 16, 2026
One hint per daily: a fourth circle
Stuck on a daily puzzle? You can now spend one hint per day on any one puzzle. A fourth, dashed circle lands on the board and every dot glides into its finer region — a whole extra claim's worth of information. It costs the same as one wrong guess, so use it where it hurts.
July 15, 2026
The reveal is now a living planet
Finish a round and a hand-built WebGL globe replays your game: it visits each wrong guess in order, launches an arc on departure, then swoops to the answer, which pulses gold under a beacon. Real-time day and night, city lights, drifting clouds and auroras included.
July 15, 2026
The daily challenge
The home page is now a Wordle-style daily: six mystery countries — two easy, two medium, two hard — identical for every player on the same date, one attempt per day, with streaks and an emoji share grid. Free play with unlimited puzzles lives on at /play.
Play today's six →