Round 1 of 10
Which country has exactly these land neighbours?
Start each round at 100. A map hint lowers it to 50, and each wrong guess lowers it by 25. Four wrong guesses reveal the answer for 0. Your total never decreases.
Use a hint to see the neighbours on the map.
Welcome to Neighbourhood
We’ll show every land neighbour of one country. Your job is to name the country they all border.
You’ll play 10 rounds. Correct answers can earn up to 100 points each.
This can be harder than it looks. Getting stumped is part of the game—and you’ll start recognising border patterns as you play.
Scoring: Each round begins at 100 points. Using the map hint changes its base value to 50, and every wrong guess reduces the round by another 25 points. For example, one wrong guess followed by a correct answer earns 75 points; one wrong guess plus a hint earns 25. After four wrong guesses, the answer is revealed for no points. Points already scored are never deducted, and the streak does not multiply the award.
Ten-round games: Questions begin easy and move towards harder countries after confident answers. The five world regions are balanced across a game, with no region appearing twice in a row and no more than two African rounds. If a region causes trouble, the game gives it a short rest. Difficulty is estimated from country prominence, map size, and how informative its neighbour list is.
Country facts: A short fact appears after every answer. Most are hand-written geographic stories; the rest highlight an interesting relationship in the game’s border data.
The game uses the listed land borders for the conventional 195-country set. Island countries without a land border cannot appear as answers. If two countries have exactly the same neighbours, either answer is accepted and the ambiguity is explained. Overseas territories and disputed borders can be classified differently by different sources.
Country data is adapted from World Countries under the ODbL 1.0. Map geometry is from Natural Earth, public domain. Boundaries and names do not imply a political position.
Journey complete
Your best score is 0.
0 confident · 0 assisted · 0 revealed
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