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Geography puzzles and trivia.

From Bhutan to the bottom of Death Valley.

Geography, in Flip & Spell, is the whole restless map. Mountains that keep growing. A kingdom that measures its success in happiness. An iceberg that sat in one spot for 30 years, then quietly wandered off.

You play it the way you'd read a good atlas, one entry at a time. Flip a tile, hold the letters in your head, match the pairs, and spell the theme in as few flips as you can. Some days that theme is Mont Blanc. Some days it's Bhutan, or Hunga Tonga, or a stretch of Death Valley where 700-pound rocks leave trails and nobody could explain it for a century.

The names run from the obvious to the wonderfully odd. The Roof of Africa is a real place. So is The Bathtub Ring. Half the fun is working out which is which.

Every theme here was picked by hand, and many close on a small fact worth keeping. A real person edits each one, so the corners feel considered.

It's a deep category, hundreds of puzzles you can wander for weeks. Pick a spot on the map and start flipping.

Themes worth recognizing.

A sample of the 300 Geographythemes in the game. Tap one to read the fact behind it.

The kind of words you’ll spell.

A taste of the Geography vocabulary behind the puzzles.

  • ATLAS
  • BIOME
  • DELTA
  • GLOBE
  • GORGE
  • MARSH
  • OASIS
  • OCEAN
  • RANGE
  • REEFS
  • RIDGE
  • RIVER
  • ROUTE
  • SHORE
  • SLOPE
  • TIDES
  • ATOLLS
  • BORDER
  • CANYON
  • CLIFFS
  • COUNTY
  • DESERT
  • FOREST
  • HARBOR
  • ISLAND
  • JUNGLE
  • LAGOON
  • MEADOW

Three facts to start.

Bhutan

The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan measures success in Gross National Happiness rather than money. It absorbs more carbon than it emits, one of very few countries that can. Above its cliffside monasteries, prayer flags snap in the wind.

Big Waves

Waimea Bay on Oahu’s North Shore hosts The Eddie, a big-wave contest run only when swells clear 20 feet. It has happened just eleven times since 1985.

Capital Punishment

Helsinki, Tallinn, and Vilnius all sit on the Baltic Sea. Tallinn and Vilnius lived under Soviet rule until 1991. Only Helsinki, Finland’s capital, stayed free.

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