Pin the Planet is a free live multiplayer geography game. Create a room, share the link, and your friends drop a pin where a city, country, UK county, US state or football ground is — closer = more points. Daily challenges, solo runs, no account.
Long description (for the main listing body):
Pin the Planet is a free browser-based geography game built for pub quizzes, friends and remote teams. Instead of streetview clues or single-player puzzles, everyone in a room sees the same place name and races a countdown to drop a pin on a map. Closer pins score more, and the worst guess of the round gets gently roasted.
How it works
The host creates a room, sends a link, and other players join from any browser. Each round shows a place name — Cairo, Belize, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Norfolk, Wyoming, etc. — and a 30-second timer. Everyone drops a pin, the host hits Reveal, and points are awarded based on distance. The closer to the answer, the higher the score (exponential decay scoring, so a near-miss still rewards). Sub-national packs use polygon scoring — pin inside the right shape = max points, miss = scaled by distance from the border.
Modes
Daily Challenge — 8 rounds, same questions for everyone today. Streak counter and shareable score (similar to Wordle, but on a map).
Solo run — pick a pack, play alone, beat your best.
Multiplayer room — 1–10 players, host controls when each round starts and ends.
Packs
World cities (Familiar / Mixed / Chaos difficulty)
Countries (with optional country outlines)
UK counties (polygon scoring)
US states (polygon scoring)
UK football grounds (Premier League through League Two + Scottish Premiership) with kit-colour club badges
What makes it different
Live multiplayer in a browser — no app to install, no account needed. Closest comparison is skribbl.io's flow but for geography instead of drawing.
Shareable results — copy/share a score card with pack name, scores and final-round highlight.
Three tone modes — Roast (savage banter), Friendly, School-safe.
Privacy-friendly — no login, names and preferences stored only in your browser, anonymous PostHog analytics.
Built lightweight — vanilla JS, Vercel API routes, Firebase Realtime Database for live multiplayer state.
Best alternative to
GeoGuessr (single-player streetview), Worldle / Globle (daily country guesses), skribbl.io (live multiplayer party guessing) — but specifically aimed at the gap where none of those let a group play together on a map in real time.
Free to play. No signup. Works on desktop and mobile.
runarthor added Pin the Planet as alternative to MapFiend
jamesmiller4 added Pin the Planet as alternative to FreeGeoGuess
tjmdigital added Pin the Planet as alternative to GeoGuess, GeoGuessr, GeoHub and Guess Where You Are
TJM Digital Ltd 
