2,138 players have tried. Can you find it with your first tap?
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Map: Borderline (borderline.world) by Chris Silver, from 1,294 players' first taps, 1 Jul to 23 Oct 2026. CC BY 4.0.
To read out: "Asked to find Ethiopia on a blank globe, about thirteen hundred players tried, and more than half got it with their first tap. You can play at borderline dot world."
For a class: ask everyone to point to Ethiopia on a blank globe, then put this map on the board. Further down, the globe gives the class one tap to find Thailand, and its "Have another go" button resets it.
Every day Borderline gives everyone the same five countries to find on a blank 3D globe. This map takes each player's first tap when the daily puzzle asked for Ethiopia, from 1 Jul to 23 Oct 2026. It leaves out 18-22 Oct, when a short burst of one-off visitors would have skewed it. Each player counts once, with their earliest try. The game hands back the first tap in open water for free, so the map counts the tap after it; a second tap in the sea counts as a miss. A first tap in the player's own country does not count either, matched from their internet address, when that country was not Ethiopia: 4 taps were left out that way. A tap counts as found when it lands inside the border: Ethiopia has no coast, so no tap in the sea ever counted. Every counted tap is drawn where the game logged it, to about 1 km, on the same detailed map of borders the game judges taps against. A dot is bigger than the spot it marks, so where a miss landed close to the border, the part of its dot that would cross into Ethiopia is left off.
"Typical miss" is the median: half the misses were closer than that, half further. These are people who chose to play a geography game, not a survey of the population.
Your tap in Now you try is not added to any map. It is counted with the visit, as the about page explains.
