Pin the Planet

Pin the Planet is a free live multiplayer geography game. Create a room, share the link, and your friends drop a pin where a city, country, UK county, US state or football ground is — closer = more points. Daily challenges, solo runs, no account.

Long description (for the main listing body):

Pin the Planet is a free browser-based geography game built for pub quizzes, friends and remote teams. Instead of streetview clues or single-player puzzles, everyone in a room sees the same place name and races a countdown to drop a pin on a map. Closer pins score more, and the worst guess of the round gets gently roasted.

How it works The host creates a room, sends a link, and other players join from any browser. Each round shows a place name — Cairo, Belize, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Norfolk, Wyoming, etc. — and a 30-second timer. Everyone drops a pin, the host hits Reveal, and points are awarded based on distance. The closer to the answer, the higher the score (exponential decay scoring, so a near-miss still rewards). Sub-national packs use polygon scoring — pin inside the right shape = max points, miss = scaled by distance from the border.

Modes

Daily Challenge — 8 rounds, same questions for everyone today. Streak counter and shareable score (similar to Wordle, but on a map). Solo run — pick a pack, play alone, beat your best. Multiplayer room — 1–10 players, host controls when each round starts and ends. Packs

World cities (Familiar / Mixed / Chaos difficulty) Countries (with optional country outlines) UK counties (polygon scoring) US states (polygon scoring) UK football grounds (Premier League through League Two + Scottish Premiership) with kit-colour club badges What makes it different

Live multiplayer in a browser — no app to install, no account needed. Closest comparison is skribbl.io's flow but for geography instead of drawing. Shareable results — copy/share a score card with pack name, scores and final-round highlight. Three tone modes — Roast (savage banter), Friendly, School-safe. Privacy-friendly — no login, names and preferences stored only in your browser, anonymous PostHog analytics. Built lightweight — vanilla JS, Vercel API routes, Firebase Realtime Database for live multiplayer state. Best alternative to GeoGuessr (single-player streetview), Worldle / Globle (daily country guesses), skribbl.io (live multiplayer party guessing) — but specifically aimed at the gap where none of those let a group play together on a map in real time.

Free to play. No signup. Works on desktop and mobile.