I have spent most of my professional life thinking about where things happen — which province, which district, which household, which dot on a map. It started at university, where I studied geography and international development, and it never really stopped. I have now lived away from home for my entire adult life, somewhere on the far side of the world from where I grew up. A global mindset stops being a phrase you put on a CV and becomes the way you actually see things. So I did what any reasonable person would do with that: I turned it into a silly daily game and roped my friends into it.
GlobeTrotter is a daily geography guessing game that lives on a spinning 3D globe. Every day you get five rounds. Each round drops you a clue about a place — a city, a landmark, a country — and your job is to spin the globe and pin where you think it is. The closer your pin, the higher your score. One puzzle a day, the same five places for everyone, so you and your friends can argue about who actually knew where Borj Hammoud is and who just got lucky.
It is deliberately a small, daily ritual rather than something that wants to eat your afternoon. Five rounds, a streak to keep, a score to beat, and then you are done until tomorrow. That is the whole point — the kind of thing you fire off in the group chat over morning coffee and then spend the rest of the day quietly gloating about.
Now, about the pig. GlobeTrotter has a mascot — a small, very enthusiastic pig riding a globe — and once that decision was made, there was no going back. Your lifelines are bacon boosts. Your final tally is your whole-hog score. The path of your guesses is the snout trail. A great day earns you prime bacon; when you share your results you share the bacon, and when you are done you head back to the sty. As the pig itself says: this little piggy went somewhere — pin the place. I regret nothing.
It is completely free, there is nothing to install, and it resets at midnight your time so everyone plays the same puzzle. Go and have a go, see if you can out-trot your mates, and do not take it — or your geography — too seriously. Whole hog or nothing.