Countries That Haven’t Appeared Yet
88 of the 176 countries in the pool have never been a daily answer. If you are keeping a personal streak, these are the ones worth learning before they turn up.
Show all 88 countries still to come
Angola · Australia · Azerbaijan · Bahamas · Belize · Bolivia · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Botswana · Bulgaria · Cambodia · Central African Republic · Chad · Chile · Colombia · Cuba · Cyprus · DR Congo · Djibouti · El Salvador · Equatorial Guinea · Eritrea · Estonia · Eswatini · Ethiopia · Gabon · Gambia · Greece · Guatemala · Guyana · Honduras · Hungary · Iceland · India · Iran · Japan · Kenya · Laos · Latvia · Lebanon · Lesotho · Lithuania · Malaysia · Mauritania · Mongolia · Montenegro · Morocco · Myanmar · Namibia · Nepal · Netherlands · New Zealand · Niger · Nigeria · Oman · Palestine · Panama · Papua New Guinea · Paraguay · Philippines · Qatar · Romania · Russia · Rwanda · Saudi Arabia · Senegal · Serbia · Slovenia · Somaliland · South Korea · Spain · Sri Lanka · Suriname · Syria · Taiwan · Tajikistan · Thailand · Turkmenistan · Türkiye · Ukraine · United Kingdom · Uruguay · Uzbekistan · Vanuatu · Venezuela · Vietnam · Western Sahara · Zambia · Zimbabwe
How This Archive Works
Where the answers come from
Each day’s country is drawn deterministically from the date itself, so every player worldwide gets the same puzzle and the archive can be reconstructed exactly. Nothing here is entered by hand.
What the difficulty dots mean
Difficulty is rated 1 to 5 from land area and land-neighbour count, weighted 65/35 toward size. Small countries with few neighbours score highest because they are easy to overshoot and have no cluster of near-misses to walk in from.