Logic puzzle · countries
Country Logic Puzzle Minefield
Thirty countries hide in a 6 × 5 grid. Fill it in the given order: each clue mixes trivia and logic, using borders, continents, populations, capitals and the countries you have already placed. 20 minutes, 30 puzzles. One wrong answer ends the round.
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Each of the 30 cells hides a different country. Fill them in the order given: the highlighted cell shows its clue, and you type its answer. Clues can use the countries already in the grid, and “around it” means the cells touching it, diagonals included. One wrong answer ends the round. You have 20 minutes.
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How the puzzles are made
Each puzzle was generated from our data and checked by a solver: filling the cells in the given order, every clue leaves exactly one possible answer among all the countries (or states), using only the answers already in the grid. You never need to guess, and you never need the rule that every answer is different. "Around it" means the up to eight cells touching a cell, diagonals included.
Clues only state what is clearly true, and the solver only rules an answer out when a clue is clearly false for it. "More people" and "larger" mean at least twice as many (half as many again for US states), and one capital is "farther north" than another only by a clear margin of latitude, so close calls never decide anything. For the same reason, a place just above or below tenth place is never ruled in or out of a top ten.
Borders, landlocked countries, areas and populations follow the pinned CIA World Factbook snapshot of our ranking quizzes; island nations are the countries of our island countries quiz; continents follow our other world quizzes (based on the UN geoscheme); the ten most populous and ten largest countries are those of our ranking quizzes; capitals are those of our capitals quizzes.
Anything that could be argued is left open: a transcontinental country (such as Russia, Turkey or Egypt) is never ruled in or out by its continent; Central America and the Caribbean are never ruled in or out of North America, and a country in North America and one in South America are never said to be on the same continent or on different ones (many languages count the Americas as one); borders through an overseas territory (French Guiana, Gibraltar, Saint Martin, the British bases on Cyprus) or Western Sahara, the tiny Botswana–Zambia and Turkey–Azerbaijan borders, and the borders of Kosovo, Palestine and Israel neither count nor rule out; the Caspian countries count as neither landlocked nor coastal, and figures that depend on disputed land are never compared.
There are no clues about the letters of a name, so a puzzle is the same in every language and a challenge link works in all of them.