This quiz names one city at a time and gives you a 3D globe. You spin the globe, zoom in and drop a pin where the city is. The closer your pin, the more points you score.
A pin within 50 km of the city scores the full 100 points. Points fall in a straight line with the distance, and a pin 3,000 km away or farther scores 0. After each pin the globe shows the true spot and the distance you missed by.
Everyone can point at Paris. The game starts when Jakarta, Lagos and Anchorage come up, and you learn how far off your mental map really is.
How to play
The card at the top names the city.
Drag the globe to spin it. Scroll or pinch to zoom.
Tap the globe to drop your pin. A second tap moves the pin.
Press Confirm pin to lock it in. The globe then shows the true spot, the distance and your points.
A pin within 50 km scores 100 points. Points fall with the distance and reach 0 at 3,000 km.
You pin every city in the run. There are no lives.
Your score is the sum of all 10 rounds. The maximum score is 1,000.
The clock runs from your first confirmed pin. A faster run breaks a tie on the leaderboard.
What counts in this quiz
Each run deals 10 cities from a pool of more than 130, so two runs are rarely the same.
The pool holds famous cities from every continent, from Paris and Tokyo to Reykjavik and Anchorage.
The target is the city centre. The 50 km circle covers the whole metropolitan area of every city in the pool.
What's not included, and why
Cities that share a name with a more famous city are not in the pool, so the prompt is never ambiguous.
Good to know
The pool spans more than 105 degrees of latitude, from Reykjavik near the Arctic Circle down to Wellington in New Zealand.
Honolulu is the most isolated city in the pool: the nearest other city in the pool, San Francisco, is almost 3,900 km away.
Quito sits about 20 km south of the equator, closer to it than any other city in the pool.