THE EXPLORER'S FIELD GUIDE

About this Farflung edition

A small game for a big world, with clear sources and simple privacy.

Updated November 10, 2026 · Independent edition

An independent geography game

This Farflung edition is an independent browser game built around a simple idea: a clue can make you look at the world a little more closely. It offers daily five-round challenges, unlimited practice, distance scoring, and a personal leaderboard. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a mirror of farflung.game. Its puzzles, selection rules, and scores belong to this edition.

No account, payment, app download, map-service subscription, or location permission is required. Game logic and location data run in your browser. The map and other assets are ordinary static files.

Map and location data sources

• Base map: Natural Earth, public-domain cartographic data. See its terms of use and 1:110m country data. The map is bundled locally; no third-party map service loads during play.
• Destinations: 50 curated cities and landmarks, with rounded coordinates as fixed game targets. Each revealed answer includes a reference link for its location and context.
• Distance: the haversine formula with an Earth radius of 6,371 km. This educational approximation is not a navigation instrument.
• Daily selection: a deterministic selection based on the UTC date. It is shared within this edition and does not reproduce another site's daily answers.

Game content was prepared on November 10, 2026. The base map is simplified for quick loading. Boundaries reflect the source dataset and do not express a political position. Small islands can be too small to draw at this scale. Target coordinates are game reference points, not address or border data.

Contact & corrections

Found a clue or coordinate that needs a second look? Prepare a correction report below. It downloads a text file with your note and this page's address. The form does not send anything or collect an email address. Keep the report or share it through the channel where you received this site.

For underlying map corrections, contact the maintainers through the Natural Earth community forums. That is an external data-source contact, not support for this game. No operator inbox has been supplied for this static edition.

Privacy policy

Effective November 10, 2026. This edition does not request personal details or include advertising cookies, third-party analytics, trackers, external fonts, or embedded social widgets. It does not read your GPS location.

What stays on your device

When available, local storage saves daily progress and completed scores. Data remains in the browser where you played. It is not sent to a game server and does not sync. Private browsing, browser settings, or clearing site storage can remove it.

The personal leaderboard contains locally saved results only. It does not contain global players, verified competition results, or fabricated scores. Shared results leave the browser only when you choose to copy them or open a share sheet.

Erasing removes this site's daily progress and personal leaderboard from this browser, without removing other sites' data.

Hosting and external links

Your hosting provider may process ordinary HTTP request information, including IP addresses and access logs, to serve these files. Logs are controlled by the host and are not accessible to game code. External reference sites have their own policies when you visit them.

Feedback reports

The correction form creates a local text download. There is no backend submission, inbox, or mailing list. Avoid including sensitive personal information.

What this edition measures

Scores measure distance to bundled target coordinates under the published formula. They do not establish expertise. The local leaderboard helps you review personal play. This site makes no claim about search rankings, traffic, or player popularity.