About Pinlander
A small, free daily map game. Five places a day, one blank map, and real miles.
How it works
Every day there are 5 places to find. Tap the blank map where you think each one is. The closer your pin, the more points you get: up to 1,000 a round and 5,000 a day. Distances are straight-line (great-circle) miles.
Everyone gets the same puzzle on the same date. A new one starts at midnight in your own time zone. Puzzle #1 is Sunday, November 1, 2026.
Monday to Friday: US cities that get harder through the week. Saturday: World Saturday, famous cities around the globe. Sunday: 4 US cities plus one small-town wildcard.
Alaska and Hawaii appear in small boxes on the US map. Scoring always uses their real locations.
Challenge a friend
After you finish, copy your “Beat my score” link. It holds only the puzzle number and your score, so your friend sees what to beat. No account and no server needed.
Credits
- City and town locations: GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0. We chose a subset of places and rounded the coordinates.
- US state outlines: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files (public domain), via the us-atlas project.
- World country outlines: Natural Earth (public domain), via the world-atlas project.
- Fonts: Fredoka and Inter, both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (license, license). Served from this site, not from a font service.
Pinlander is an independent game. It is not affiliated with any other game or map company.