Guess the country by its shape
A free country shape quiz. Look at the outline above, name the country — you get six tries, with distance and direction hints after each guess. New puzzle every day, no sign-up.
How to play the country shape quiz
- Look at the country outline above.
- Type a country name and hit Guess.
- If you're wrong, you'll see how far away you are (in km), an arrow pointing toward the answer, and a proximity % — the warmer the closer.
- You have 6 guesses. Solve it and keep your daily streak alive, then share your result.
A new country to guess by shape unlocks every day at midnight UTC. Want to guess the country by outline as many times as you like? Play endless mode →
The cleanest way to guess the country
Most geography games either lock the good stuff behind a subscription or bury the map under ads. Countriq is the opposite — a guess-the-country game that stays out of your way:
- Genuinely free. No account, no paywall, no daily-play limit on endless mode.
- Fast and clean. The whole quiz is a single lightweight page — it loads instantly, even on mobile.
- Fair hints. Distance, direction and a warmth score after every guess, so you're always learning, not just guessing blind.
- Real geography. Country outlines come from the public-domain Natural Earth dataset, normalized so every shape is centered and recognizable.
A daily country quiz habit
Countriq is built to be a 60-second daily ritual — like a crossword, but a country shape quiz for the whole world map. Learning to guess a country by its outline trains a surprisingly deep kind of spatial memory: the bulge of Brazil, the boot of Italy, the long ribbon of Chile, the diamond of India. After a few weeks of daily play, shapes you'd never have placed start to feel instantly familiar.
Because every puzzle is the same for everyone on a given day, you can compare results with friends. The share button copies a spoiler-free emoji grid — green for the solve, warm and cold squares with direction arrows for your near misses — so you can post your score without giving the answer away.