PassportQ

PassportQ disguises the geography riddle as a border control check. The board is a passport page: the clues are stamps, the attempts are entry applications numbered ATTEMPT №01 to №05, and a fake machine-readable line (P<FQAFLIGHTQ<<DAILY), runs beneath the clue area. Two stamps are already affixed on load, the day's maximum temperature and a population range, the other four remain sealed until you spend an attempt.

1. Read the two stamps already affixed: the day's maximum temperature frames the climate zone, the population range frames the city's size.
2. Type a city name into the ATTEMPT №01 line and confirm with STAMP IT (autocomplete accepts variants, accents and common misspellings).
3. Read the feedback: a distance and an arrow oriented toward the target city.
4. Claim the next stamp, in a fixed order: elevation after the first attempt, local time after the second, landscape type after the third, dominant airlines after the fourth.
5. Cross-check bearing, distance and stamps to close the loop before the fifth entry attempt.

The staging does all the work. Revealing elevation or the airlines doesn't feel like a help menu but like an official stamping another passport page, and the constraint of five entry attempts gives weight to each name you propose, since it's the game's only currency.

Each failed attempt returns two things: a distance to the target city and an arrow pointing in its direction, plus an additional stamp that is unsealed in the clues column. The ENTRY ATTEMPTS counter shows 0 / 5 USED on load, and the clues block continuously displays how many stamps are revealed (2 / 6 on first load).

Puzzle du jour

One city per day, numbered (NO. 147 · AUG 25, 2026), with a rollover at midnight Eastern Time announced under the board.

Archive

The footer opens yesterday's answer and the list of past PassportQs.

• The first attempt is not just for guessing: it unseals the elevation, often the sharpest stamp. A probe city, placed far from your intuition, gives you a clear bearing in addition to the clue.
• Local time appears as the second stamp and gives the time zone. Crossed with the arrow, it reduces the globe to a band of longitudes.
• Airlines appear last: don't count on them to find the city; they serve to confirm a hypothesis you already hold.