Daily Asia Capital Quiz

Today's mystery capital city from Asia, the same one for every player until local midnight.

This pack draws on the Asia pool. What makes the region itself hard, and a dossier for every country in it, are on the Asia pack guide.

Today's answer is drawn from the 48 countries of Asia. Only two of the capitals carry their own territory's name in some form, which makes those the free points; the rest are the round. The seats of government run from Astana in the far north to Dili in the far south, and because the hint after a wrong guess reports a compass direction, latitude is the axis you can triangulate on fastest.

One capital city name. Name the country it governs. Cities that share a name with their country are free points; the rest reward knowing your Central Asia from your Caucasus. You get 6 guesses. Every wrong one returns the great-circle distance to the target, a compass direction pointing at it and a proximity percentage, so a cold start is recoverable, two well-spaced wrong guesses will usually bracket the answer.

One capital city a day, on a fixed schedule, means the pool turns over slowly: 48 answers is 48 days before today's could come round again, roughly 1.6 months. The slowness is the point. There is one attempt, the result stands, and a streak is worth something precisely because it cannot be re-rolled. It also means the daily is a poor way to learn the pool and a good way to find out whether you already have.

Every player anywhere gets the same capital city on the same date, rotating at your local midnight, so everyone's results compare directly. Six guesses, then the answer, then a share card recording how many it took. Progress and streaks live on your own device, so clearing site data clears them. Full rules, including how the distance and compass hints are calculated, are on the how-to-play page. If you've already played today, endless mode has no limit.