britmap

What it is

britmap is a daily British history map puzzle. Five prompts a day, and everyone gets the same five. There is no account and no sign-in, and it is free.

How a round works

Read the prompt, place a pin on the map where you think the answer is, and see how close you were.

The answer is not always a single point. A town is a place, a river or a stretch of coast is a line, and a county is an area. Where the answer has extent, the distance measured is to the nearest part of it — a pin anywhere inside a county counts as being on it.

Scoring

A pin on the answer scores 100. From there the score falls away with distance, gently at first: a 14 km near-miss still scores 95, and 100 km away is 70. Past 1500 km it reaches nothing. Right region, wrong town is meant to be worth something.

The five rounds are weighted ×1 ×1 ×2 ×3 ×3, so the later ones carry more of the day. A perfect day is 1000.

The daily reset and streaks

A new set of five arrives at midnight, London time. A streak counts consecutive days you have completed, and it breaks on a day you miss.

Your streak and today's results live in this browser's own storage. That is not an account: it does not follow you to another device, and clearing your browser storage for this site clears it. Privacy & data lists exactly what is kept and where.

Where it comes from

The prompts are drafted with AI assistance from published sources and then reviewed and edited by hand before they are scheduled. They can still be wrong, and corrections are welcome.

The map is OpenStreetMap data served as vector tiles, with elevation from an open terrain source. The full list of sources, licences and typefaces — and where to send a correction — is on Credits & licences.