YOUR FIELD GUIDE
How to play Farflung.
A little intuition will take you a long way.
Start anywhere.
Type a country or select one on the map. You have six guesses to find the hidden destination.
Follow the clues.
Each guess shows the distance to the answer and the direction to travel. Warmer colors mean you’re getting closer.
Find your way.
Use what you’ve learned, or ask for a little hint. Find the country, share your journey, and come back tomorrow.
Reading the map.
The map starts without a marked destination. Type a country into the search box, use the arrow keys to select a suggestion, and press Enter. You can also click or tap a country on the map to put its name into the search box, then submit your guess. Use the plus and minus controls to zoom, drag the map to pan, and use the globe button to reset the view. The distance signal remembers your closest guess and reaches 100% only when you find the correct country. The six numbered circles show your remaining guesses. You can turn optional game sounds on with the speaker button; they are off by default.
Reading a clue.
If your guess is France and the clue says “2,100 km → E,” look about 2,100 kilometers east of France’s reference coordinates. The compass direction is the initial great-circle bearing toward the answer. Green means less than 1,000 km away, amber means 1,000–3,500 km, and terracotta means further away. Text labels and numbers accompany the colors.
Hints and endings.
You can reveal two optional hints: first the continent, then the subregion. Hints do not use a guess, but appear in your shared result. You win by selecting the exact destination. After six incorrect guesses, or if you choose to give up, the country is revealed on the map. Only completed daily games count toward your daily statistics.
Daily or unlimited?
The daily country is the same for everyone and changes at midnight UTC. Your progress lives in this browser. Unlimited mode gives you a new country after every round; those practice rounds do not affect your daily streak. If storage is blocked, you can still play, but your progress will not survive a reload.
Good to know.
What is Farflung Play?
Farflung Play is an independent geography game inspired by the daily guessing puzzle format. Your goal is to find a hidden country in six guesses, using distance and direction clues. Our daily puzzles and answers are our own; we are not affiliated with the original Farflung game.
How do the distance and arrows work?
Distances are great-circle distances between representative coordinates for each country, not the nearest borders. The arrow gives the initial compass direction from your guess toward the hidden country. A country less than 1,000 km away is hot, 1,000–3,500 km is warm, and anything further is cold. Map projections distort distances, so trust the clue rather than screen position.
When does the daily puzzle reset?
Everyone gets the same daily country. A new puzzle arrives at midnight UTC. Your daily guesses and statistics are saved in this browser, so you can leave and pick up where you left off.
Can I play more than once a day?
Absolutely. Unlimited mode gives you a new random country after every round, with the same six-guess rules. It’s free, with no account required.
Which countries can I guess?
The game includes 193 United Nations member states plus the Holy See, Palestine, Taiwan, and Kosovo: 197 destinations. This list is a gameplay convention, not a political statement. Small countries may be hard to select on the map; every destination is searchable by name, common aliases, or country code.