Borderline crowd map
Vietnam, which doesn't touch Thailand, drew more wrong taps than any country that does.
Each dot is one player's first tap on a blank globe when the daily asked for Thailand, 1 Jul to 23 Oct 2026, not counting 18-22 Oct.
Find Poland on a blank globe with no names on it. One tap, as in the game.
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1,605 players have tried. Can you find it with your first tap?
Drag to spin · pinch to zoom · tap once to answerDrag to spin, scroll to zoom, click once to answer. Keys: arrows turn, + and - zoom, Enter taps the centre.
See where 1,605 players tapped for PolandEveryone gets the same five, with a new five at midnight UTC. Free, no signup, about two minutes.
Play today's fiveFree to use with a credit to borderline.world (CC BY 4.0).
Map: Borderline (borderline.world) by Chris Silver, from 2,138 players' first taps, 1 Jul to 23 Oct 2026. CC BY 4.0.
To read out: "Asked to find Thailand on a blank globe, over two thousand players tried, and about two in three got it with their first tap. You can play at borderline dot world."
For a class: ask everyone to point to Thailand on a blank globe, then put this map on the board. Further down, the globe gives the class one tap to find Poland, and its "Have another go" button resets it.
Want a country that isn't here? Email hello@borderline.world
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 Thailand, 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 Thailand: 50 taps were left out that way. A tap counts as found when it lands inside the border. From 22 Aug 2026, when the game began giving credit for a tap just off the coast, a tap close enough to the coast counts too; before then only taps inside the border 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 Thailand 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.
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