Countries — practise the geography puzzle with countries

The same puzzle as the daily one, restricted to countries: a country speaks about itself in first person, gives you up to five clues from cryptic to obvious, and you name it in up to six guesses. Unlike the daily puzzle you can play as many rounds as you like, and each round draws a random country from the pool.

There are no questions in practice mode. The daily puzzle lets you ask the place three questions in your own words, answered by a language model in character; here it is clues and guesses only. That keeps practice fast, and it keeps the daily puzzle the one place where the conversation happens.

The daily puzzle is one place for everyone, once a day, with a streak, a comparison with other players and an archive page afterwards. Practice modes have none of that on purpose: they keep their own small statistics in your browser, they never touch your daily streak, and they do not count towards the comparison.

Practice draws from the same pool of places as the daily puzzle, but leaves out today's puzzle and everything scheduled for the next two weeks. A place you practise today can therefore appear as the daily puzzle at some later date; a place scheduled for the near future cannot appear in practice.

Does practice affect my daily streak?

No. Each practice mode keeps its own statistics in your browser: rounds played, win rate and a streak of consecutive wins within that mode. The daily streak only changes with the daily puzzle.

Can I get the same place twice?

Not until you have seen every place in the category. Your browser remembers which puzzles you have played in each mode; once the pool is used up, it starts over in a new order and says so.

Why can I not ask questions in practice?

Asking the place questions is what makes the daily puzzle special, and every answer is a call to a language model that costs money. Practice is meant to be played in quantity, so it keeps to clues and guesses.

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