Which Way? is a free daily geography game about compass direction. You are placed in one city, shown a second city, and you guess the direction from A to B on an 8-point compass rose: North, Northeast, East, and so on. The closer your bearing, the more points you score.

Every day brings the same five-round puzzle for everyone worldwide, so you can compare scores and share a spoiler-free result card. Keep a daily streak going, or jump into endless mode and see how long you can survive. There is no sign-up and nothing to install.

It is trickier and more surprising than it sounds. Montevideo is almost due east of Sydney. Reykjavik sits further west than most of mainland Europe. Which way is a game that quietly rewires how you picture the world map.

Which Way? The Compass Direction Game

How to play

Read the origin city (“You are in …”) and the target city (“Which way to …?”).
Tap the compass wedge for the direction you think the target lies: N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, or NW.
Press Lock in direction to reveal the true bearing, the distance, and your points.
Play all five daily rounds, then tap Share result to copy your emoji score card.
Come back tomorrow to keep your streak alive, or switch to Endless for as many rounds as you can survive.

Game modes

Daily: five rounds from one origin city, seeded from the date so everyone gets the same puzzle. Scored out of 5,000 with a shareable emoji card, plus a daily streak. One puzzle per day, resetting at midnight UTC.
Endless: a fresh origin and target every round. The correct direction or one step off keeps you alive; three misses ends the run. Pick a region pack (World, Europe, Asia, Americas, or Africa) to focus your practice.

The geography behind it

The answer is the rhumb-line bearing from the origin to the target: the constant compass heading you would steer on a Mercator map, the same kind of straight line you picture when you look at a world map. That is different from the shortest great-circle route a plane flies, which can curve toward the poles, so long-distance directions sometimes surprise people. Which Way rewards the map-reading intuition, and the reveal always shows the exact bearing in degrees and the distance in kilometres.

Playing it is a fast way to build a real mental model of where places sit relative to each other: that Cairo is north of Cape Town, that Los Angeles is east (not west) of Tokyo across the Pacific date line on the map, and that Europe reaches surprisingly far north compared with North America.

Frequently asked questions

Is it the same puzzle for everyone today?

Yes. The daily puzzle is seeded from the current date in UTC, so every player worldwide gets the same origin city and the same five targets each day. It resets at midnight UTC, which is what makes shared score cards comparable.

How is my answer scored?

By how close your chosen direction is to the true bearing. An exact bearing scores 1,000 points, 45 degrees off scores about 500, and 90 degrees or more scores 0. Choosing the correct one of the eight sectors always earns at least 750 points.

Why is the direction sometimes surprising?

Because a flat map distorts distance and direction, especially over long ranges and near the poles. Which Way uses the rhumb-line (constant-compass) bearing, which matches how a straight line looks on a Mercator map, so the answers line up with map intuition rather than a globe’s great-circle path.

Do I need an account?

No. There is no sign-up and no login. Your daily streak and best scores are saved only in your browser, and nothing is tracked.

Can I play on my phone?

Yes. The game is mobile-first with large tap targets, so tapping the compass wedges works well on a phone or tablet.

What data does the game use?

A hand-curated list of famous world cities with public-record coordinates. Bearings are computed in your browser from those coordinates, and country flags come from the flag-icons project (CC0 public domain). Everything is bundled, so the game runs with no external calls.