All 190 clues
Every clue that can appear on the board. A puzzle combines three of these so that exactly one country satisfies all of them — and the fewer countries share a clue, the more work it does for you. Each clue links to the full list of matching countries; each of those links to a country profile. Study a family or two, then take on today's daily challenge.
Regions7
Coastlines2
Seas and gulfs13
- Has a Mediterranean coastline21
- Has a coastline on the Caribbean Sea20
- Has a Baltic Sea coastline9
- Has a Black Sea coastline6
- Has a Red Sea coastline8
- Has a coastline on the Persian Gulf8
- Has a coastline on the South China Sea10
- Has a North Sea coastline7
- Has an Adriatic coastline6
- Has a coastline on the Arabian Sea6
- Has a coastline on the Bay of Bengal4
- Has a coastline on the Andaman Sea5
- Has a coastline on the Gulf of Guinea9
Lakes and inland seas3
Island nations2
Rivers10
- The Nile or a main tributary flows through it8
- The Amazon or a main tributary flows through it7
- The Danube flows through it10
- The Congo or a main tributary flows through it9
- The Rhine flows through it6
- The Mekong flows through it6
- The Ganges or a main tributary flows through it4
- The Indus or a main tributary flows through it4
- The Zambezi flows through it6
- The Niger flows through it5
Mountain ranges5
Deserts1
Hemispheres1
The equator1
Other famous lines4
How far it reaches6
Where it lies4
Area13
- Has an area larger than 2,000,000 km²12
- Has an area larger than 1,000,000 km²29
- Has an area larger than 500,000 km²51
- Has an area larger than 200,000 km²84
- Has an area smaller than 500,000 km²144
- Has an area smaller than 100,000 km²88
- Has an area smaller than 50,000 km²69
- Has an area smaller than 10,000 km²32
- Is larger than France41
- Is larger than Japan60
- Is larger than Egypt28
- Is smaller than Iceland89
- Is smaller than Portugal86
Number of neighbors8
Specific neighbors8
What the neighbors are like21
- Borders a country in a different region21
- Every country it borders is larger than it51
- Every country it borders is smaller than it14
- Shares no official language with any of its neighbours54
- Borders a country whose name begins with the same letter30
- Borders a monarchy42
- Borders a country that drives on the other side of the road29
- Borders a country that has no other neighbour15
- Borders a country of more than 100 million people66
- Borders an island nation8
- Borders a landlocked country88
- Every country it borders has a coastline67
- Borders a country more than ten times its size59
- Borders a member of the European Union44
- Borders a member of NATO53
- Borders a country spanning more time zones than it does48
- Every country it borders has a higher peak than it does46
- Borders a country in a different hemisphere34
- Borders a country whose flag shares no colour with its own16
- Has more people than all of its neighbours combined8
- Is larger than all of its neighbours combined6
Highest points7
Below sea level1
Time zones2
Driving side2
Population7
Population density3
Languages7
Number of languages3
Monarchies1
European Union1
NATO1
Commonwealth1
OPEC1
Currencies5
Flag features6
Flag colors7
Country names6
First letter of the name8
Length of the name3
Name meets capital1
Capital cities8
- Its capital city shares the country's name5
- Its capital city's name has more than one word26
- Its capital is not its largest city36
- Its capital city's name begins with “A”16
- Its capital city's name begins with “B”25
- Its capital city's name begins with “M”19
- Its capital city's name begins with “P”17
- Its capital city's name begins with “S”17