HistoryGuesser

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    Country guesser

    Which country am I in? That is the first question every round here, and the fastest one to get good at. A country guesser trains a specific skill — reading script, architecture, road furniture and landscape until the country falls out of the picture — and this one adds a second question on top: what year is it?

    Guess a country Today's challenge

    How it works

    1. Step 1

      Look for the giveaways: alphabet, flags, roof shapes, plants, which side people drive on.

    2. Step 2

      Drop your pin in the country you have settled on.

    3. Step 3

      Then date the scene, and see the real answer with a note on the event.

    Practise one country at a time

    Every country we cover has its own five-round game, so you can drill Japan, Germany, Egypt or Peru until their scenes stop fooling you. The atlas shows the whole map of what is playable, and new countries are added automatically as scenes for them appear.

    Why the period matters

    Borders move. A scene set in 1900 may be in a country that did not exist yet, or in one that has since split — so the pin is judged on the physical place, not on today's politics. The reveal always names the modern location as well as the historical one.

    Ways to play

    By countryFive rounds inside a single country.By eraOne period, end to end, from antiquity to the modern day.On this dayWhat happened today in history, and the scenes to play from it.

    Questions

    How many countries are there?
    The playable list grows as scenes are added; the play page shows every country currently covered, and the atlas maps them.
    Does the pin have to be in the right country?
    No — scoring is by distance, so a pin just across a border still scores nearly full marks.

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