Place Pin

How to play

1. 1 Study the cropped photo clue before any written hints appear.
2. 2 Type a landmark, place, or nearby city as your guess.
3. 3 After a miss, read the distance from your guessed place, direction, signal score, and unlocked hint.
4. 4 Find the place in six guesses, start a practice place, or create a multiplayer room with a selected number of rounds.

Rules

• The daily photo puzzle is the same for everyone on the same day.
• You get up to 6 guesses.
• Stored landmarks, major cities, and countries show distance and direction.
• Only the landmark name or a direct landmark alias solves the photo; city and country guesses are clue pins.
• Unknown entries still use a pin and unlock a hint, but they do not show distance.
• Practice places are extra rounds and do not replace the daily puzzle.
• Multiplayer rooms support 2 to 12 players, two-minute rounds, and three pins per player per round.

Scoring

• A correct landmark guess solves the photo puzzle immediately.
• Wrong guesses show the distance in kilometers from your guess to the answer.
• The best score rewards the closest guess so far, and each guess is labeled from cold start to pinpoint.
• A 100 signal score means your pin is on top of the place; only landmark names solve it.
• In multiplayer, exact answers are worth up to 1,000 points and close wrong pins can still score up to 800 points.

Tips and strategy

• Look for small details: landscape, materials, skyline, water, weather, and architecture.
• Treat the direction clue as an instruction for your next guess.
• Watch the distance board: warmer means your last pin moved closer than the previous one.
• The answer dropdown is intentionally off so the puzzle is not solved by browsing the list.

Why the distance matters

Each wrong guess becomes a navigation clue. If the answer is 900 km NE, your next pin should move northeast from the place you picked, but the distance is the main signal that tells you whether that move got warmer or colder.

More than one clue

The photo starts tightly cropped, then opens with each miss. Combine visual details, written hints, signal strength, and distance to solve the place without needing an account or personal data.