Piece the World

Yes. There is no account, no download and no paywall. The game runs in your browser, your best times are saved on your own device, and nothing is sent to a server.

Easy shows every country's outline and name on the board. Normal keeps the outlines but only names the pieces in your tray. Hard shows the continent as one blank silhouette and hides every name, so you place countries purely by shape and memory.

Accuracy is the number of pieces divided by pieces plus wrong drops, with each hint counting as two wrong drops. 90% or better earns three stars, 70% earns two, anything else one. The timer starts on your first drag and stops when the last piece snaps in.

Countries that span two continents are placed by their capital. Russia (Moscow) is in the Europe level, Turkey (Ankara), Kazakhstan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Cyprus are in Asia, Egypt (Cairo) is in Africa, and Panama is in North America. Indonesia sits in Asia. The World level uses whole-continent shapes.

Micro-states and small islands such as Vatican City, Monaco, Singapore, Bahrain, the Gambia or the Caribbean islands would be a few pixels wide on a phone screen, so the game places them for you and shows them dimmed. Every other country is a piece you drag yourself.

Each level uses an equal-area projection, so the pieces have the same relative size as the real countries. Mercator, the projection most web maps use, inflates anything near the poles, which is why Greenland usually looks as big as Africa when it is actually fourteen times smaller.

Yes. On Android and desktop Chrome use “Add to Home Screen” or “Install”; on iPhone use Share → Add to Home Screen. After your first visit the levels are cached, so the game keeps working without a connection.

Yes. The engine is built so a new board is just a data file, so single-country levels such as the states of the USA, the states of India or the districts of Bangladesh can be added without changing the game. Subscribe to the YouTube channel to hear when they land.