Two countries light up on opposite ends of somewhere. Your job: link them by naming countries that share land borders, building an unbroken chain from one to the other.
There's no single correct route — any path of touching neighbors works, and finding the short one is the skill. Ten puzzles per run.
How to play
Type any country to add it to the map; you win the round the moment a complete land path connects the two highlighted countries.
Any route counts — go around the long way if you must, but extra countries cost time.
Ten puzzles per run; the timer counts up across all of them.
What counts in this quiz
10 randomly drawn pairs per run, always solvable by land.
Borders follow the dataset's mainland convention — France–Brazil via French Guiana famously does NOT count, so plan your South America routes accordingly.
What's not included — and why
Territories and dependencies — Greenland belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark, Puerto Rico is a US territory, and Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China, so none of them are answers.
Constituent countries — Curaçao is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and England, Scotland, and Wales are parts of the United Kingdom, not sovereign states. Typing England or Scotland is credited to the United Kingdom.
Unrecognized claimants beyond Taiwan and Kosovo — places like Somaliland or Transnistria lack broad international recognition, so they are not counted.
Good to know
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world at about 0.44 square kilometers — the entire nation is smaller than many golf courses.
South Sudan is the newest widely recognized country, gaining independence from Sudan in 2011.
Kiribati is the only country that sits in all four hemispheres — it straddles both the equator and the 180th meridian.