What is Drop the Pin?
Drop the Pin is a free daily geography game. Every day at midnight UTC, everyone in the world gets the same five mystery locations. Some rounds hand you raw GPS coordinates, some just a place name — either way, you drop a pin on a map with no labels and get scored by how close you land.
Coordinates are simpler than they look: the first number (latitude) says how far north or south you are — 0° is the equator, positive is north, negative is south. The second (longitude) says how far east or west of Greenwich, London. So 27.17° N, 78.04° E means "a bit south of Europe's latitude, well east of India's west coast" — that's the Taj Mahal. Play a few days and you'll start reading the planet in numbers.
How points work
Each of the 5 rounds is worth up to 200 points — a perfect day is 1000. Your score falls smoothly with your error distance, measured as the crow flies:
- 🟩 Bullseye — land on the spot for the full 200
- 🟨 ~830 km off — about half points
- ⬜ 5,000+ km off — effectively zero
There's no partial-credit cliff — 100 km off beats 200 km off, every time. The 45-second clock keeps you honest: no time to look anything up.
Want to go the other way — turn any point on the map into coordinates, in every common format? That's MapGO's GPS Coordinates Converter. Sign in free to save your score, build a streak, and appear on the daily and all-time leaderboards.