GeoDrop
LeaderboardThe daily drop-a-pin geography game: eight places, one blank world map.
GeoDrop controls: Click the map to place your pin · drag to pan · scroll to zoom · DROP PIN. Press Play, then the game takes the keyboard. Press Tab to leave it.
GeoDrop
Find places on a blank map.
Use several fingers
GeoDrop #28 · Tue 10 Nov
GeoDrop #28 · Tue 10 Nov
Click the map to place your pin · drag to pan · scroll to zoom · DROP PINTap the map to place your pin · drag to move it · pinch or + to zoom · DROP PIN
How to play GeoDrop
Read the departures board: it names today's destination, its country and what kind of place it is.
Tap or click the blank map where you think it is; tap again to move your pin, drag the map to look around.
Zoom in with a pinch or the + stamp (or the + key, or the mouse wheel) and nudge your pin into place.
Press DROP PIN (or Enter) before the gate closes. If the clock runs out, a pin you placed is dropped for you.
Watch the reveal: the true spot, how far off you were, everyone's pins and the crowd's average pin. A close pin is shown up close; drag or zoom to look around, then press NEXT to fly on.
After eight legs, your boarding pass shows your total distance and how many legs you beat the crowd on.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Touch: tap the map | Place your pin there (tap again to move it) |
| Touch: drag the map | Pan the map |
| Touch: pinch the map | Zoom in and out where your fingers are |
| Touch: + and − stamps | Zoom in and out, about your pin |
| Touch: DROP PIN | Lock in your pin and see how far off it was |
| Touch: NEXT | Fly on to the next place (drag and zoom the reveal first to look closer) |
| Mouse: clickdragscroll | Place or move your pin / pan the map / zoom in and out where the pointer is |
| Keyboard: arrows or WASD | Pan the map |
| Keyboard: + and − (or E and Q) | Zoom in and out (PageUp and PageDown zoom where the pointer is) |
| Keyboard: Enter or Space | Drop your pin; fly on to the next leg during a reveal |
Tips
Place a rough pin first, then zoom: the + stamp zooms in about your pin, so it stays under your finger while the map grows around it. On a computer, scroll the mouse wheel over the spot you want to look at.
Use the coastlines and the big lakes as landmarks. Lake Baikal, the Great Lakes, Lake Victoria and Lake Titicaca are all on the map, and most capitals sit near a coast or a river mouth you can find.
The board names the country. For a big country, think about which side of it the place is on before you tap: Ulaanbaatar sits north of the middle of Mongolia.
Distances follow the curve of the Earth, and the map stretches the far north and south, so up there a pin that looks far off on the map can be closer than it seems. Zoom in before you drop.
Do not rush the first leg: a pin within 25 km scores the full 1,000, and the clock gives you 20 to 25 seconds per place.
Use the faint country borders: the board names the country, so find its outline first, then think about where inside it the place sits.
About GeoDrop
GeoDrop is a free daily map quiz and geography game played on a blank world map. A split-flap departures board announces a destination (Paris, Machu Picchu, Lake Baikal, Ulaanbaatar), and you drop a pin where you think it is on a map with no labels, only coastlines, lakes and faint country borders. Then the true spot appears, a dashed flight path runs from your pin to it, and you see exactly how many kilometers off you were. It is a map guessing game and a where is it quiz in one, it runs in your browser with no download, and a whole day's eight takes about two minutes, which makes it one of our favorite quick games.
Every day everyone gets the same eight places, and they ramp from easy to hard. The first is always a world-famous place a newcomer can nail (Paris, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Niagara Falls), the next few are well known (Kyoto, Anchorage, Machu Picchu), and by the eighth you are pinning places like Ulaanbaatar, Lake Titicaca, Timbuktu or Funafuti. The board names the country (for a few places, the territory), so the challenge is knowing where a place sits inside it. There are more than 3,000 places in all: capitals and big cities, mountains, lakes, waterfalls, islands, landmarks and ancient sites from every part of the world, no two from one country on a day, and a place never comes back on GeoDrop's own days within a year.
The reveal is the best part. Played on the day, GeoDrop shows everyone's pins for the same place as a cloud of dots, then drops the crowd's average pin, the center of all those guesses. Crowds are surprisingly wise: their average pin is often closer than nine out of ten players, so the result says how far off it was, how many players it beat, where your own pin stands, and whether you beat the crowd. At the end a boarding pass sums up your day: a little world map with your eight pins, how far off each one was, your total distance and how many legs you beat the crowd on, ready for a screenshot or the share button.
Scoring is simple and fair. Each pin is worth up to 1,000 points: anything within 25 km is a perfect landing worth the full 1,000, 100 km off is worth 940, 500 km 700 and 1,000 km 500, falling to nothing by 12,000 km. The board stamps every leg LANDED, ON TIME, DELAYED, DIVERTED or LOST, or CANCELED when no pin was dropped. Distances are measured along the curve of the Earth, the way a plane flies, so a pin on the wrong side of the Pacific is really as far off as it looks. You get one go a day at the day's eight, and your score climbs the leaderboards of our competitive games, where top scores are verified by replaying them on our servers.
GeoDrop plays the same on a phone or a computer, and it was called Pin Drop until November 2026. On a phone, tap the map to place your pin, drag the map to look around, pinch to zoom in (or use the round + and − stamps), and tap DROP PIN when you are happy. With a mouse, click to place the pin, drag to pan and scroll the wheel to zoom in where you point (on a computer the map fills most of the screen); on a keyboard, the arrow keys pan, + and − zoom and Enter drops the pin. It is one of our mobile games and PC games, and it belongs with our geography games, quiz games, estimation games, crowd games, brain games and casual games for adults. It is also one of the daily games: a new eight opens at midnight New York time. If you play MapTap and are looking for games like MapTap, GeoDrop is our own take on the tap-the-map idea: eight places a day on a flat world map with no labels, a clock on every pin and the crowd's average pin to beat. Gamefinity is not affiliated with MapTap. More daily map games are on our games like Farflung page.
Details
- Category
- Quiz & Trivia Games
- Tags
- Genre
- Trivia
- Orientation
- Portrait (9:16)
- Works on
- Mobile & desktopPhones, tablets and computers
- Controls
- Mouse or touch
- Length
- About 3 min per run
- Plays
- 2,973
- Released
- Updated
- Credits
- Design and development: Gamefinity
- Coastlines, lakes and city locations: Natural Earth (public domain), via world-atlas and natural-earth-vector
- Landmark and natural feature locations: Wikidata (CC0)
- Age rating
- 4+
GeoDrop FAQ
How long does a game of GeoDrop take?
About two minutes. Each of the eight places has a 20 to 25 second clock, the reveal after each pin takes a few seconds (press NEXT to move on, or zoom in and look around first), and the boarding pass sums up the day at the end. Even a day that runs every clock to the end is done in under four minutes.
How is the score calculated?
Each pin scores up to 1,000 points from how far it is from the real place, measured along the curve of the Earth: within 25 km is a perfect 1,000, 100 km off is 940, 500 km 700, 1,000 km 500 and 12,000 km or more nothing. Your score is the eight pins added up, out of 8,000, and the boarding pass also shows your total distance off.
Is it the same eight places for everyone?
Yes. GeoDrop gives everyone the same eight places each day, from an easy first one to a hard eighth, and no place comes back on GeoDrop's own days within a year. You get one go a day, so nobody can look the places up and try again. On some days GeoDrop is also one of the three games in The Daily: there it deals eight places of its own, never the day's eight, so it is a separate play with its own score. A place from The Daily can come up again on GeoDrop's own days, but never within two months of it.
What is the crowd's average pin?
After each pin you see where everyone else pinned the same place today, and the center of all those pins on the globe. That average is often closer than most players, so beating the crowd is a real achievement. The crowd's pins are anonymous and never change your score.
Is GeoDrop like GeoGuessr?
Only in spirit. GeoGuessr drops you into a street view and asks where you are; GeoDrop names the place and the country and asks you to find it on a blank map with no names. There is no street view, no account and nothing to pay, and a day is eight pins that take about two minutes.
Why are there no names on the map?
That is the game: the map shows the coastlines, every island, the lakes and faint country borders, but no names, so you have to know where a place is rather than find its label. The board tells you the country, and the map comes from Natural Earth's public-domain world map.
Can I play GeoDrop on my phone?
Yes. It is made for touch: tap the map to place your pin, drag to pan, use the + and − stamps to zoom and tap DROP PIN. It plays the same with a mouse and keyboard on a computer.
Was GeoDrop called Pin Drop?
Yes. It was called Pin Drop until November 2026. It is the same game with the same places, map and scoring, and every score, streak and leaderboard carried over; the old link still brings you here.
Is GeoDrop the same as MapTap?
No. MapTap is a separate daily geography game by its own developer, and Gamefinity is not affiliated with it. Both name a place and score you on how close you get. MapTap gives you five locations a day, tied to events from this day in history, to tap on a 3D globe. GeoDrop gives you eight places a day, one from each of eight countries, to pin on a flat world map with no labels, with 20 to 25 seconds for each, and sets your pin against the crowd's average pin.
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