Blind Tasting

A photograph of one plate of food, and the question is not what is this dish but where is it from. You type countries, not dish names, which changes the game entirely: you can recognise a bubbling red stew instantly and still have to decide between Korea, China and Japan. The whole thing is dressed as a daily newspaper, masthead and all, with the edition dated and numbered at the top, and your record kept in something it calls a passport rather than a stats page.

1. Look at the plate. There is no caption and no dish name, only the photograph under the line Photograph, today's plate.
2. Type a country into the field and pick from the autocomplete. Only real country names are accepted.
3. Read the verdict and the clue it unlocks, then guess again. The counter counts down from Four guesses remaining to 1 guess remaining.

The decision to ask for the country instead of the dish is what makes this worth a daily click. It rules out pure recognition and forces a second step, which is why someone who cooks a lot can still lose. The clue ladder is well graded too, moving from geography to ingredients to national context so that each miss narrows the map in a different dimension rather than just repeating the last hint louder. And the reveal is generous: you get the dish's real name, a paragraph on how it is eaten at home, and a share card the site promises is spoiler-free. The newspaper styling could have been decoration, but the numbered issues and the passport give the whole thing the feel of collecting something rather than clearing a task.

Each guess is stamped with a verdict, and there is a middle result that does a lot of work: alongside the blunt WRONG there is SAME CONTINENT, which tells you that you are in the right part of the world without telling you where. Underneath every wrong guess a numbered clue card opens, and the sequence is fixed rather than random. Clue I names the continent outright. Clue II describes the dish in a sentence of menu prose, which is where a stew becomes a bold, spicy stew built around fermented cabbage, tofu and pork. Clue III drops food entirely and gives you a fact about the country's history or economy. Run out and the answer opens as a full card with the country, the dish name, and a paragraph on why the dish matters at home, plus a mock-solemn rank signed by The Lost Tourist.

Daily edition

One dish, four guesses, numbered like an issue of a newspaper.

My Passport

The optional account, and the pitch is unusual: no password, just an email, to carry your streak and food history across devices.

• Open with a country you think is wrong but well placed. Because clue I is the continent, a first guess that lands on SAME CONTINENT is worth more than a wild stab, and you learn the continent either way.
• Do not translate the photo into a dish name in your head. Naming the dish is not asked and it is a trap, because several countries cook the same thing and the game only rewards the origin.
• Clue II is a recipe, so read it as one. It lists ingredients in order of importance, and the fermenting, the fat and the chilli in that sentence are what separate neighbouring cuisines.
• Clue III is deliberately not about food. It describes the country's trajectory or history, so if you were still stuck between two neighbours, that is the tiebreaker the game intends you to use.