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Wormillion is a free daily geography game.

Founded year: 2026
Country: Bahamas
Funding rounds: Not set
Total funding amount: Not set

Description

Wormillion is a free daily geography game played in the browser, built for people who know that the Nile is not the interesting answer. Every dig is ten prompts, thirty seconds each: name a river, a lake, a mountain, a desert, an island, a sea, a country, a capital or a city that fits. Any real place counts, and there are thousands of right answers to every prompt. What matters is how obscure yours is. Wormillion measures obscurity by how many people read a place’s Wikipedia article each month, not by size or population, so a mid-sized river almost nobody looks up digs far deeper than the Danube, and the deeper your worm goes, the more you score. A jackpot answer, one in Wormillion, is a place in the rarest 15% of its category.

The first two rounds are plain; after that most prompts carry a condition: a region, a flag colour, a length or area threshold, a letter rule, or a theme like rivers in Mesopotamia. Misspellings are corrected rather than rejected, wrong answers cost nothing but seconds, and a skip is always available. Today’s dig is the same ten prompts for everyone in the world that day, with a share grid, a streak, a comparison against every other digger and a full recap three days later. Endless mode draws fresh prompts as often as you like. The bank holds about fifteen thousand real places, every one with its own Wikipedia article, and it grows. No account, no ads, nothing to install: open wormillion.com on any phone or computer and start digging.

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