How to play Compass Rift
Compass Rift is a free geography game with a new route every day. A game takes about two minutes.
The daily trip
Each day your trip starts in a port city and goes around the world by sea, rail and air. On the way you make five stops. At the end there is one more stop: where does the trip end? Everyone in the world plays the same trip on the same day.
Each stop
- Read the clue. It is a fact about a real place, for example about its history, its people or its nature.
- Tap the map where you think the place is. You can zoom in and move the map.
- If you know the name, you can also type it.
Some stops are at sea: a sea, a gulf, a strait, a canal, an island or a port. Other stops are on land, like a city or a famous building. The long parts of the trip go by sea, so for a land stop you go by train from the nearest port, or by plane when the place is more than 600 km away.
The first stop is easy. Each stop is a little harder than the one before.
Points
| What you do | Points |
|---|---|
| Each stop's worth (shown on the stop) | a share of 900, by difficulty: ★5 ≈ 2.8 × ★1 |
| Tap near the place (the closer, the better) | up to all of the stop's worth |
| Tap inside the right country (land stops in one country only) | a tenth of the stop's worth |
| Ask for another clue | 40% less for that stop |
| 2 good answers in a row | +10 |
| 3 good answers in a row | +15 |
| 4 or more good answers in a row | +25 each |
A good answer is a stop where you tap within 300 km of the place. A perfect day is exactly 1,000 points, every day, so you can compare any two days.
Your Atlas
When you answer within 150 km of a stop (of its nearest edge, for seas, islands, rivers and other big places), the place goes into your Atlas. The Atlas is your own world map. It fills in as you play, day after day.
Days in a row
Play every day to keep your days in a row. Every 7 days in a row you get a freeze, if you do not have one already. You can have only one freeze at a time. If you miss one day, the freeze is used by itself and your days in a row are saved. The missed day does not add to your count. If you miss two days or more, your days in a row start again at 1.
Old games
You can play any of the last 7 days from Old games on the home screen. Old games do not count for your days in a row or your Atlas.
Tips
- The stops are always near the route. Look at where you are on the map.
- If you are not sure, tap in the middle of the area you think of. Close is still good.
- On a land stop in one country, the right country gives you a tenth of the stop's points even if you are far from the place. Places shared by several countries, like the Malay Peninsula or Victoria Falls, have no country bonus.
- New to the game? Press the ? button on the home screen and try the short practice game.