Pinpoint

Capital Hunt · a geography duel for Chrome

Twelve cities. One map. No labels. You get fifteen seconds to click where each capital is — precision scores, hesitation costs, and one miss resets your streak.

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Free · no account · no tracking · works offline

The game

A real map, real distances,
and a clock that doesn't wait.

Each round names one of 258 capitals and world cities. Your click is scored by true great-circle distance against real coordinates on a Natural Earth map — not a decorative picture. The target radius shrinks from 1000 km to 450 km as the cities get more obscure.

Pinpoint gameplay: a world map with the prompt 'Locate the city — Lagos, Nigeria' and a 15-second countdown ring
A bullseye verdict: guess pin, revealed true location, and the distance between them drawn on the map
Every guess is revealed against the truth — with the kilometres you missed by.
The local top-10 leaderboard with names, accuracy, mode, and scores
The top-10 leaderboard lives on your device. Cartographer runs are tagged, so the flex is visible.
How to play

One click per city.
It locks the moment it lands.

01

Read the prompt

A city name appears with a draining countdown ring. In Navigator mode you also get the country; in Cartographer mode you're on your own.

02

Commit to a click

Click the map where you believe the city is. No zoom, no adjusting, no second thoughts — your first click is your answer.

03

Face the distance

The true location is revealed with a line to your pin. Inside the radius you score by precision and speed; outside it, you pay.

Scoring

Precision pays. Streaks multiply.
Misses hurt.

EventPoints
Hit inside the target radius+100 – 500 scaled by precision
Speed bonus (time left on the clock)up to +100
Bullseye — within 150 km+150
Miss or timeout−100 and your streak resets
Streak multiplier×1.25 at 3 hits · ×1.5 at 5 · ×2 at 8
Target radius by round1000 km → 450 km over 12 rounds
Modes

Choose how much of the map
you deserve.

Navigator

Country borders drawn, country name shown with every city. The honest baseline — still no labels, still a ticking clock.

score ×1

Cartographer

Continent silhouettes only. No borders, no country hint — just a name and your memory of the world. For people who know where Bishkek is.

score ×1.5
Install

From the store, from source,
or right here.

The Chrome Web Store listing is the one-click path. Until it's live — or if you'd rather run it yourself:

  1. Download or clone the repository.
  2. Open chrome://extensions and switch on Developer mode (top right).
  3. Click Load unpacked and select the extension/ folder.
  4. Pin the compass icon and click it to start an expedition.
# or just try it without installing anything:
# the game runs standalone in any browser
open extension/index.html   # leaderboard falls back to localStorage
Privacy

Nothing leaves your device.

Collected data: none. No analytics, no telemetry, no ads, no accounts, no game-server traffic. The extension requests a single permission — storage — used solely to keep your local top-10 leaderboard (the name you type, score, accuracy, mode, date) on your own device. The Clear button on the leaderboard erases it instantly.

The only external requests are two font stylesheets from Google Fonts, loaded as static assets with full system-font fallbacks — the game works completely offline. Map and city data are bundled from Natural Earth (public domain).