GeoShadow guide

Goal

Identify the daily country from its silhouette in 6 guesses. Each guess narrows the field with distance + direction hints toward the target.

How to play

• Look at the silhouette — note shape, proportions, and orientation.
• Type a country name (or pick from the choices) and submit.
• After each guess you'll see distance (km) and a directional arrow pointing toward the answer.
• A percentage tells you how close you are — 100% means correct.

Scoring

Fewer guesses = higher score. Completing the puzzle keeps your daily streak alive.

Reading a silhouette

Outline alone is enough far more often than it feels. Coastline tells you most of it - a landlocked country has no coast to recognise, so the giveaway is the shape of its borders instead. Watch the aspect ratio and the orientation: the silhouette is presented at a fixed rotation, so a country you know from a map should look the way you remember it.

Using distance and direction

• The arrow points along the great-circle route to the target, which is not the direction you would trace on a flat map - near the poles it can point somewhere that looks wrong and is not.
• Distance narrows the field faster than the arrow does. A guess a few hundred kilometres out usually means a neighbour; a few thousand means the right continent and the wrong part of it.
• Guess deliberately far apart early. Two distant guesses triangulate the target much more sharply than two neighbours do.

Streaks and reset

Everyone gets the same country each day and it resets at midnight Melbourne time. Completing the puzzle extends your streak; missing a day resets the current streak but never your longest.