Daily Capital Challenge
Name today's capital city. Build a streak. Free, daily, no signup, no app to install.
How to play
Guess the capital city in five tries; each wrong guess reveals another letter of the answer. Use the length and the revealed letters to rule out whole regions before you commit to a city.
A new puzzle goes live every day at midnight UTC and everyone gets the same one, so you can compare results with friends or a class without spoilers. Solving today's puzzle keeps your streak alive.
The world in this puzzle
Answers come from the site's 197-country dataset. Africa has the most countries (54), followed by Asia (48) and Europe (46), so on any given day a mystery country is most likely to be in one of those three.
| Continent | Countries | Largest by area |
|---|---|---|
| Africa | 54 | Algeria |
| Asia | 48 | China |
| Europe | 46 | Russia |
| North America | 23 | Canada |
| Oceania | 14 | Australia |
| South America | 12 | Brazil |
Play offline in the free app
Every quiz on the site, plus a daily streak, is in the free Geography Quiz Arcade app: Get it on Google Play · Download on the App Store.