Daily map puzzles. One shared puzzle a day for everyone.
Triviverse Geography is a free set of eight daily geography games. Each one tests a different kind of world knowledge: recognising a place from a photograph, placing a moment from history on the map, naming a language from a few seconds of speech, comparing countries’ populations and sizes, identifying a country from its outline or its flag, finding an overland route between two countries, and putting missing countries back on the world map. Everyone gets the same puzzles each day, a new set starts at midnight UK time, and every game runs in the browser with no account and nothing to download.
Most geography quizzes test one thing, usually capitals or flags. The games here are built so that each one rewards a different skill. Postcard and Milestone are about place: where a photograph was taken, and where a discovery, battle or first happened. Borderline, Unfurl and Patchwork are about recognition: the outline of a country, its flag, and where it sits among its neighbours. Overland is about connection, meaning which countries actually share a land border. Outrank is about scale, meaning which country has more people, more land or longer lives. Earshot is the odd one out, a game you play with your ears, where the clue is a recording of someone speaking.
Someone who aces the flag game can struggle badly with the route game, and a strong history reader can be lost when the clue is a voice. That spread is the point. Playing all eight each day covers a surprising amount of the world, and the gaps in what you know show up quickly.
Every game has a daily puzzle that is the same for everyone and changes at midnight UK time. You get one attempt at it. Your progress is saved as you go, so closing the tab halfway through does not lose anything, but finishing locks the daily to your result. That way the score you share is the score you actually got, and a friend comparing results is comparing the same puzzle.
Each daily has a clear line between winning and losing, and the game tells you what it is before you start: name the country within six guesses, score 3,500 of 5,000 points, get five in a row, restore the map before your sixth miss. Winning keeps your streak for that game going. Losing ends it, so a long streak means something.
Every game also has an Unlimited mode for practice. Unlimited serves as many rounds as you like, never shows you that day’s daily, and never affects your streaks or league points. Postcard’s Unlimited goes further and holds back the next month of daily photos as well, so practising can never spoil an upcoming day.
Each game keeps its own day streak, and the hub shows your longest live one. Play all eight dailies in a day and it counts as a perfect day, which doubles that day’s league points. Base Camp is your record: your streaks, how often you win each game, your best scores and a calendar of the last sixteen weeks.
Leagues are private weekly tables for friends, family or colleagues. Start one, share the code, and everyone’s geography dailies count towards the table. Scoring is 10 points for each daily played, 25 for each win, 5 more for every day of a game’s streak (up to 25), and a perfect day doubles the lot. Tables reset every Monday. Leagues are separate from Triviverse Football’s, although you keep the same nickname on both.
None of this needs an account. Streaks and results are stored in your own browser. Joining a league stores a nickname and your daily results on the server so that the other members can see the table. The Privacy Policy explains what is kept and for how long.
Every puzzle is built from published sources, and each game’s page says which. Country outlines, borders and the world map come from Natural Earth, a public-domain map dataset. Flags are public-domain artwork from Wikimedia Commons, drawn at their official proportions. Photographs are from Wikimedia Commons under free licences, credited to the photographer on the page. The history questions were written for Milestone, and each answer’s location is checked against the place’s Wikipedia article, with the sources linked after you answer. Earshot’s recordings come from the Wikitongues project and Google’s FLEURS speech dataset, under Creative Commons licences. Outrank’s figures are the World Bank’s World Development Indicators, all for the same year.
Where the real world is messy, the games say how they handle it. Disputed borders follow Natural Earth’s de facto lines. Overseas territories are not drawn as part of their mainland country in the outline game. Countries the World Bank does not publish a figure for are left out of that statistic, not guessed at. If something looks wrong, the Contact page is the place to report it. Corrections are made in the underlying data, so they fix every game that uses it.
If you want something quick and familiar, start with Unfurl or Borderline. They are six-guess games where each wrong answer still tells you which way to look. If you like maps, Patchwork and Overland reward knowing where countries sit and what they border. If you prefer stories, Milestone puts history on the map one question at a time. Postcard is a single, careful guess with a photograph. Outrank is fast and slightly addictive, since a run can end on the first question or carry on for all ten. Earshot is the hardest to fake, because you either recognise the sound of a language or you work it out from its family, one longer listen at a time.