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Game guides: tips, strategy and facts
Each guide explains how a game works, gives reference numbers and facts worth knowing, and shows how to improve your score. Ready to play? See all geography games or today's daily geography games.
Longer FlightHow to tell which of two flights is longer: great-circle distance, quick estimating tricks and the map mistakes that catch most players.
Route RankingA practical guide to ordering flight routes from shortest to longest on a departure board: estimating tricks, tie-breakers and mistakes to avoid.
Code QuizWhy airport codes look the way they do: the patterns, the historical quirks (ORD, YYZ, MCO) and strategies for guessing the three-letter code.
Plane SpotterA spotter's guide to telling airliners apart by their outline: engines, wings, size and tail, covering the A380, 747, 737, A320, ATR 72, Concorde and more.
Population MatchA guide to country populations for Population Match: the numbers to memorise, how to combine countries to reach a target and how the rating works.
Border RunHow to find the shortest chain of land borders between two countries: hub countries, choke points and the way to plan a route.
PinpointHow to place cities on a world map accurately: latitude and longitude landmarks, coastlines and a way of thinking that improves your score.
AntipodeHow to find the antipode of any place, why most land is opposite ocean, and tips for the Antipode game.
Mystery CountryWhich questions to ask first, how to combine clues and how to score well in the six-question country guessing game.
Flag MixerPatterns in national flags (tricolours, Nordic crosses, Pan-African and Pan-Slavic colours) and tips for the name, fix and paint flag modes.
OutlineTips for naming a country from its silhouette, including famous shapes, tricky look-alikes and the world's tiniest microstates.
Neighbour RushHow to find every neighbour of a country before the clock runs out: a scanning method, countries with the most neighbours and small-country traps.
Capital HuntThe capitals people most often get wrong, how to learn them with memory tricks, and tips for tapping the right country on the map.
Population ShowdownHow to win more tricks in the country population card game: saving your best cards, leading, following and reading the dealer.
OverflownWhy flights curve over the globe, how to work out which countries a route crosses, and tips for the Overflown map game.
ShortcutGreat circles versus straight lines on a flat map: why flights curve north, how rhumb lines work and tips for finding the shortest route.