Atlas

What it does
Standard: 5 clues a day – one from each price level (5 · 15 · 25 · 40 and a last resort). With 7 or 10, extra clues are drawn at random from the rest. The shop never makes a start clue more precise, and there's always just one last resort.

The idea
More clues mean more ways to the answer, so you can play to what you know best – maps, flags, numbers, names. But more choice also means more reading and longer decisions. Does a bigger shop make it more fun, or just slower?

What it does
Price levels (standard): every clue in a level costs the same – 5, 15, 25, 40 or 70.
Own price per clue: each clue gets its own price, based on how much it narrows down the 46 countries on average – across all countries, not today's puzzle. Example: only 5 countries are islands, so “Island nation?” rarely helps and costs 3. “First letter of the name” leaves about 3 countries, so it costs 45. A clue always costs the same, whatever the answer is. Comparisons after a wrong guess get their own price the same way – averaged over every country you could guess: Direction 20, Shared colours 22, Population and Area 4 each (instead of 15 · 15 · 5 · 5). The wrong guess itself still costs 10.

The idea
Levels are quick: you only decide how much to invest. Own prices are fairer and reward knowing which clues are really worth it – but they're harder to compare at a glance. Prices never depend on today's answer, so a price can't give anything away.

What it does
Play on (standard): at 0 points your score is gone, but everything becomes free until you find the country.
Can lose: at 0 points you get one last guess – wrong means lost.
3 or 5 ❤️: a wrong guess costs a life instead of 10 points. Clues still cost points. No lives left means lost.
No limit: no budget at all. Your score is what you spent – lower is better.

The idea
Each option changes what a good game means: keeping points, not losing, or spending as little as possible. Lives make guessing cheaper but limited, “can lose” adds tension, and “no limit” makes every point count without ever getting stuck.

What it does
100 (standard) or 1000. With 1000, every price is multiplied by 10. With price levels that changes nothing but the size of the numbers. With own prices the numbers get finer – Region costs 245 instead of 25, Latitude 215 instead of 22.

The idea
More points allow more precise prices, so small differences between clues show up. The question is whether bigger numbers feel richer or just harder to read.