About Farflung Game
Most geography quizzes ask for the one right answer. Farflung asks for the answer nobody else will give.
The idea
Ask a room full of people to name a country the Equator crosses and most will say Brazil or Ecuador. Both are right, and both are obvious. Farflung is built around that moment: every prompt has many correct answers, and the further you get from the obvious, the further you travel. Kenya takes you a little way. Kiribati, the only country in all four hemispheres, takes you much further. São Tomé and Príncipe, where the line crosses a tiny islet off the main island, goes as far as one pin can.
It turns a quiz into a small daily expedition: five prompts, about three minutes, and a trail from the Harbour to the Far Reach.
How the prompts are made
- Complete answer lists. Each prompt is chosen so its full set of right answers can be pinned down: borders, coastlines, rivers, lines of latitude, official languages, the letters in a country’s name. A valid answer missing from the list would be unfair, so lists are checked before they go live.
- Rarity by popularity. Every answer gets an estimate of how often players reach for it. The most popular answers become Common, and the long tail runs through Uncommon, Rare and Elusive.
- One gem per prompt. Each prompt has a hand-picked gem with a short note: a fact worth remembering, like Moldova’s few hundred metres of Danube riverbank or the Uruguay River that forms Argentina’s border with Uruguay.
- Clear edge cases. A note under each prompt says how tricky cases count: whether a gulf belongs to a sea, or whether a maroon flag counts as red.
The map
Farflung’s world map uses the Equal Earth projection, which keeps countries at their true relative size, so Africa looks as big as it really is. Country shapes come from Natural Earth, a public-domain dataset. Borders follow Natural Earth and aren’t a statement on any dispute. Overseas territories count for the country that governs them.
Fair play
Everyone gets the same five prompts each day. The clock starts only when you can read the prompt, and it keeps running if you leave, so the game rewards what you know rather than what you can search. Nothing on the map hints at an answer’s rarity before your pin drops.
Free, light and private
Farflung is free, with no account and no ads. It runs in your browser, and your game progress stays on your device. We use visitor analytics to understand how the site is used. The privacy page has the details.