About GlobeTap
GlobeTap is a free daily geography quiz. Every day it asks five questions, each a surprising fact about a country, and you find that country on a 3D globe. It takes about three minutes, and the whole world plays the same round.
Why facts instead of flags or outlines?
Most geography games ask you to recognise a flag or the shape of a country. That trains memory, but it says little about the places themselves. GlobeTap starts from the other end: a story about a country, such as a record, a tradition, a piece of history, an animal, a landmark or a strange border. Then you have to work out where on earth it happens. You learn something new every day, and over time the map fills up with things you know about each country.
Some facts are easy if you know the country. Others give you a clue to reason with: a river, a neighbour, a climate, a language. Even if you don't know the answer, you can usually narrow it down to a region, and a near miss still scores points.
How the facts are made
The game has ten facts for each of its 181 countries, about 1,800 in total. Each fact follows the same rules:
- It never names the country. A check rejects any fact that contains the country's name.
- It comes with an explanation that tells the story behind it and names the country, shown after you answer.
- It has a source. Almost every fact links to the matching Wikipedia article, so you can read on.
- It is spread out fairly. The daily schedule spreads every country evenly over the year, pauses a country for two days after it appears, and uses every fact once before any fact repeats.
Facts change over time: populations grow, records are broken, borders and names change. If you find a mistake, please report it (see below) and it will be fixed.
The round archive
Every finished round is kept in the archive with its facts, answers, explanations and sources. It is a good place to look up a question you missed, or to read through earlier rounds if you have just started playing.
Who makes GlobeTap
GlobeTap is an independent project made by Flakon Selimi in Graz, Austria. It runs on Cloudflare, the maps come from Natural Earth country borders and satellite images, and the game is financed by advertising so that the daily round can stay free.
Contact
Questions, ideas, a wrong fact? Write to [email protected]. The legal details are in the imprint.