Hot or cold
Hot or Cold: Europe
Three European countries are hidden in three corners of Europe. Type any European country and follow the temperature, from freezing to burning, to find all three before the 3:00 run out.
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Three countries are hidden, one in each column. Type any country: it drops into its column with a temperature for how close it is to the hidden one there, from freezing to burning. Name a hidden country to reveal it, and find all three before the 3:00 run out.
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How it works, distances and sources
Every round hides three places, one in each of three columns picked at random. Type any place: it goes into its column with a temperature for how close it is to the hidden one there, from freezing to burning, and naming the hidden one reveals it. While you play you see only temperatures; the distance of every guess, in km, is shown when the round is over. A challenge link replays the same three hidden places.
The columns are the four UN subregions of Europe (Northern, Western, Southern and Eastern Europe), with Kosovo, Turkey and Cyprus in Southern Europe. Europe's distances are the shortest distance between two countries' land, islands included (Natural Earth 1:50m shapes): burning is under 50 km, hot under 250 km, warm under 500 km, cool under 900 km, cold under 1,500 km, and anything farther is freezing.
Two of the hidden countries are well known and one, in a random column, is less known. Kosovo, Palestine and Taiwan, the countries that belong to two continents, and Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City (whose temperature would match their big neighbour's) are never hidden, but you can still guess them.