What is Antipode Drop?
Antipode Drop is a free daily geography game. Every day at midnight UTC, everyone in the world gets the same three cities. For each one, imagine digging a tunnel straight down through the center of the Earth — then drop a pin where you'd come out on the far side. That exit point is called the antipode, and the closer your pin lands to it, the more you score.
The trick is simpler than it sounds: the exit point is exactly as far south as your city is north (or the other way around), and halfway around the world east–west. Dig from Madrid and you surface in the ocean just east of New Zealand. Most tunnels end in open water — the Earth is mostly ocean, and almost all land sits opposite the sea. Play a few days and you'll never see a globe the same way again.
How points work
Each of the 3 rounds is worth up to 333 points — a perfect day is 1000. Your score falls smoothly with your error distance, on a gentler curve than Drop the Pin (antipode misses are naturally huge):
- 🟩 Bullseye — surface on the spot for the full 333
- 🟨 ~1,700 km off — about half points
- ⬜ 10,000+ km off — effectively zero
There's no partial-credit cliff — 500 km off beats 1,000 km off, every time. The 45-second clock keeps you honest: no time to look anything up.
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