The same five places for everyone
The daily challenge is the same set of five locations for every player on the planet. The challenge number is derived from universal time, so it rolls over for everyone at once and the day's results are directly comparable: everybody saw exactly the same panoramas.
The point of the daily is comparability. Everyone plays the same five panoramas, so the day's table reflects skill rather than luck with locations: the conditions are identical down to the pixel.
It appears on the mode card and in the game header. The number is derived from universal time, so it rolls over for everyone at once.
You get one attempt. A round thrown away in a hurry cannot be replayed, and the result goes on the shared table.
The day's table opens after the game and shows how your score stands against people who saw exactly the same places.
Play the daily more carefully than a normal game: you get one attempt and it cannot be replayed. Do not drop your pin on the first plausible-looking place — look around for text first, then move towards a confident answer.
Slower play is justified here in a way it is not in classic. With a single attempt, thirty extra seconds spent reading a sign costs less than the fifteen hundred points of difference it prevents.
Hints work and are deducted exactly as elsewhere. With one attempt a day, buying the country for a thousand points is often better value than risking a half-continent miss.
| Rounds per game | 5 |
| Time limit | none |
| Camera restrictions | none |
| Anchor points | 147 |
| Available in duels | no |
| Hints | yes |
A direct hit is worth 5000 points per round, and the score falls off exponentially with distance. A five-round game is worth up to 25,000. Distances are measured on the server against its own copy of the locations, so a result cannot be forged from the browser.
| Miss | Points per round |
|---|---|
| direct hit | 5,000 |
| 1 km | 4,998 |
| 10 km | 4,975 |
| 50 km | 4,877 |
| 200 km | 4,524 |
| 500 km | 3,894 |
| 1,000 km | 3,033 |
| 2,000 km | 1,839 |
| 5,000 km | 410 |
| other hemisphere | 34 |
What the pool for this mode is made of:
| Europe | 29 |
| Asia and Oceania | 26 |
| The Americas | 20 |
| Africa and the Middle East | 10 |
| Russia and the CIS | 62 |
One per day. Starting the same challenge again returns your earlier result.
At midnight universal time, simultaneously for every player.
A session lives six hours, but the result only counts once you finish. An unfinished game never reaches the table.
Past challenges cannot be replayed, though the previous day's table stays available.