Silhouette Six

A country's silhouette appears with no other clues, often rotated and scaled to keep you honest. Type a country name to guess; each wrong attempt nudges you closer with a hint, but you only have six tries.

• Study the outline shape alone
• Type a country name to make a guess
• Use feedback from wrong guesses to narrow it down
• Identify the country within six attempts

• Desktop: type your guess and press Enter (keyboard recommended)
• Phone & tablet: tap the field to type with the on-screen keyboard

• Daily: one shared seeded country, ranked globally
• Practice: a fresh country every round to keep training

• Look for signature features, a long coastline, a peninsula, an island cluster or a boxy border
• Mentally rotate the shape to a familiar orientation before deciding
• Relative size and proportions survive scaling, so judge length against width

Silhouette Six tests how well you know the world's countries from their outline alone, building map recognition and a mental atlas.

• Skills: country shapes, map recognition, world geography
• Best for: roughly grades 4–9 (ages 9–15)
• For parents & teachers: sharpens recognition of countries by shape.

Identifying a country from its outline alone, rotated and scaled to prevent recognition by position, is map-shape recall stripped of every other cue.

Hints that arrive only after a wrong guess are the original scoring.

Rotation is the part that makes it hard, and it reveals how the knowledge is actually stored. Most people recognise countries by where they sit on a familiar map rather than by their shape, so turning the outline removes the very cue they were relying on without removing any information.

Silhouette Six is an original, free browser geography game that tests how well you know countries by their shape alone. No download or sign-up needed.

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