Daily Oceania Shape Quiz

Today's mystery country shape from Oceania, the same one for every player until local midnight.

The smallest pack, and the strangest. Almost every entry is an archipelago, so the shape round is less about one outline than about the pattern a scatter of islands makes. Several of these countries have more ocean territory than most continents have land.

Distances here are enormous and the land is tiny, so the compass hint matters more than in any other pack. Telling the Micronesian states apart is the last thing most players learn.

The pool is the 17 countries of Oceania. Three of them draw as a single unbroken landmass, which means the outline gives you one closed edge and nothing else; seven are scattered enough that the arrangement of the pieces is the clue. The most compact outline in the set is Nauru, smooth, rounded and genuinely hard, because a shape with no corners looks like a dozen others. The most convoluted is Maldives, which almost identifies itself. Between Australia and Tuvalu the pool spans several orders of magnitude of area, and the puzzle scales every outline to the same box, so size is exactly the cue you don't get.

A single territorial outline, stripped of colour, labels and any surrounding coastline. Name the country it belongs to. Big countries give themselves away; the small ones are where streaks go to die. 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.

Daily mode is one puzzle, drawn from a fixed schedule so that every player anywhere gets the same country shape on the same date. It rotates at your local midnight. There is no retry and no reshuffle: six guesses, then the answer, then a share card recording how many it took. That constraint is the point, a streak you can't re-roll is worth something, and the pressure changes how you spend guess two. Progress and streaks are stored on your own device rather than an account, 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.