Drift Apart

The continents and oceans float free of a blank globe. Drag each piece to its real-world position and rotate it until everything locks into the correct map of Earth.

• Drag a landmass or ocean to move it across the globe
• Rotate pieces so they sit at the right orientation
• Snap every piece into its true geographic spot to complete the world
• Daily puzzle or Practice for repeat play

• Desktop: click and drag pieces; use the Rotate button to spin the selected piece
• Phone & tablet: drag with a finger and tap Rotate

• Anchor the big, unmistakable continents first, then fit smaller pieces around them
• Coastline shapes that interlock are your best alignment clues
• Set rotation before fine-tuning position to avoid double work

Drift Apart is a drag-and-rotate world-map assembly puzzle themed around plate tectonics, linking the continents' shapes to their drift.

• Skills: continents, plate tectonics, world map, spatial assembly
• Best for: roughly grades 5–10 (ages 10–16)
• For parents & teachers: shows how the continents fit and have moved.

Reassembling continents and oceans onto a blank globe is continental drift run backwards — the hypothesis Alfred Wegener argued from exactly this observation, that the coastlines fit.

Requiring rotation as well as position is the original precision.

Rotation is what made the original argument persuasive. Matching outlines could be coincidence; matching them only after turning them, and finding the rock formations and fossils line up too, is the evidence that eventually forced plate tectonics to be taken seriously.

Drift Apart is a drag-and-rotate world-map assembly puzzle themed around plate tectonics. It's an original, free browser game built in-house for PlayPendium.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.