Two New Games: Metric Hunt and Rule It Out
Two new games arrive on Geocore, both built from a player's ideas. In Metric Hunt you find a hidden country from one clue per guess. In Rule It Out you and a rival each hide a country, then race to name the other's. Both are live in your browser at geocore.fun/play.
Metric Hunt: one clue at a time
A country is hidden, and nothing of it is on screen. Type a country or click one on the map to guess. Each wrong guess compares your guess with the hidden country on one thing, such as people, size, wealth, climate, coast, neighbours or how far north it lies, and tells you whether the hidden country is higher, lower or about the same. The clues stack up on a board, so every guess narrows the search, and the fewer guesses you need, the more you score.
- Free with an account. Hard, which draws from every country, is part of Geocore Pro.
- Play it on your own, or in a lobby, where each player's clues stay private.
- A daily Metric Hunt starts on October 28.
Tip: begin with a middling country, neither very big nor very small. Its clue splits the remaining countries into two big groups, and every later guess can narrow them further.
Play Metric Hunt.
Rule It Out: your rival's country
You and your rival each get a hidden country. Take turns: ask one yes-or-no question about your rival's country, such as "Is it landlocked?" or "Does it border Chad?", and the game answers from its data. Every country the answer rules out is crossed off your board, and you can name a country at any time. The first to name the other's country wins the duel.
- Play against the computer on Easy or Medium, or with friends in a lobby, taking turns in a ring. The Hard computer is part of Geocore Pro.
- Choose a region and a difficulty, and play a single duel or a best of three or five.
- A hint will suggest a good question for your board, and never says anything about the hidden country.
Tip: the best question splits your board in half. "Is it in Africa?" can cross off most of the world at once; "Does its name start with Z?" rarely does.
Play Rule It Out.
Also new
- Quiz progress and Surprise me. The quiz pages now show how many quizzes you have at 100% and how many you have played. Use the Not played and Not at 100% filters to find what is left, or press Surprise me for a random quiz.
- Quizzes for your own site. Teachers and bloggers can embed any free map quiz on their own page with one line of code. Open a quiz and press Embed.
- Text size and an Easy-read font. Choose Standard, Large or Larger text, and a plainer font, in Account > Preferences. They are saved on the device you are using.
- Suggested for you. Play now picks games from what you said you want to learn, and shows a shelf of Pro games you can try once.
- Two new versions. City from Its Bearings: Wrong Arrow and Draw the Border: Tripoint Pin.
- English as an official language. A new question in Rule It Out, and four new quizzes on English-speaking countries.
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- The Geocore Team