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I suck at word games like scrabble, crosswords, and the like. So Gemini native games like Spellbinding, while cool, are not appealing to me. I am however good at geography, and have been playing Worldle with friends for a few months:
I wondered if I could make a port of the game to Gemini. Where In The World is the result
A new puzzle is available every day at 0:00 GMT. New puzzles generate automatically every day. The same puzzle is used for everyone, every day, so you can share and compete with friends if you'd like.
Right now, you can't.
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I really don't want to get into the politics of "what's a country" so I'm using ISO 3166-1 standard for the country code list. I also need to have a free, high resolution, monochrome map of the country, so certain valid territories have fallen off.
It's a concise way to represent the "closeness" of your guess. If your guess is at the opposite side of the world, you'll get 0%, if you guess the country, you'll get 100%.
The distance displayed for a guess is the distance between the center of the guessed country, and the actual country. For instance, the distance between United States and Canada is 2260 km even if they are next to each other.
There are two reasons for this::
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Is your feedback a subtle way to ask me the answer to today's puzzle?
Cool, then email me
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