City of the Day
A mystery Canadian city is hidden somewhere in the country. Guess any city of 60,000+ people and you get the distance and direction back — plus whether its population is bigger or smaller. Close in on it, one guess at a time. Same city for everyone, all day.
Distance is measured in a straight line from the city you guessed to the mystery city; the arrow points the way to go. The population hint compares the two cities’ 2021 Census counts.
Your streak and results are stored only in this browser, for Winnipeg. Nothing is sent to us, there is no account, and clearing your browser data clears your streak.
Winnipeg in this puzzle
749,607 residents at the 2021 Census, ranked 6 among the 200 Canadian municipalities of 20,000 or more people that the games draw on.
Between the 2016 and 2021 censuses, from 705,244 to 749,607 residents.
How to play
- Type any Canadian city of 60,000 or more people.
- Each guess returns how far away it is, which direction to head, and whether the mystery city has more or fewer people.
- Guesses within 60 km go green; within 350 km, yellow; beyond that, red.
- Six guesses to find it. The same mystery city is shared by every player today.
- Your streak counts consecutive days played.
What this puzzle is built from
2021 Census population counts from Statistics Canada, table 98-10-0002, and representative city coordinates from OpenStreetMap (Nominatim), used under the Open Database Licence. Distances are great-circle (haversine) distances.
Privacy
There is no account and no leaderboard. Your streak, your best score and your recent results are stored in this browser’s local storage and are never transmitted. Clearing your browsing data clears them, and playing in a private window will not remember anything.
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Official sources
- Statistics Canada — 2021 Census of Population
- Statistics Canada — population estimates by census subdivision
- Environment Canada — Canadian Climate Normals
- Environment Canada — Air Quality Health Index
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