War Guesser — Pin the Map, Guess the Battle

War Guesser is the pin-drop half of WarAtlas. If you've played GeoGuessr, the mechanic is familiar: you're shown a place and you commit to a spot on the map. The difference is you're not looking at a street — you're given a real battle, and you have to know your history well enough to place it.

How scoring works

• Great-circle distance between your pin and the real site decides the score
• Within 50 km scores the full 1,000. Then it steps down: 750 inside 200 km, 500 inside 500 km, 250 inside 1,000 km, 100 inside 2,000 km, 50 beyond that
• Three attempts per battle. Miss the first and you're shown the year; miss the second and you get the conflict and the region
• Falling back on a second guess costs 50 points and a third costs 100, so the bands reward committing early
• No timer and no penalty for zooming — the map is the puzzle, not a reflex test

Where the battles are

Guessing well means knowing the whole map, not just Europe. The 13,542 battles in the pool break down as:

• Europe: 7,283 battles
• North America: 1,572 battles
• Africa: 1,468 battles
• East & Southeast Asia: 1,397 battles
• South Asia: 646 battles
• Middle East: 538 battles
• South America: 484 battles
• Oceania & Pacific: 124 battles

Try placing these from memory

• Battle of Traigh Ghruinneart — 1598
• Battle of Helsingborg — 1710
• Battle of Bhaktapur — 1769
• Colbert raid — 1783
• Battle of Mykonos — 1794
• Battle of Gonzales — 1835
• Battle of Lipantitlán — 1835
• Battle of Kohima — 1944
• Uzbin Valley ambush — 2008
• 2011 southern Israel cross-border attacks — 2011
• Battle of Alasay — 2009
• Battle of Mount Tumbledown — 1982

Play today's three battles → · Study the map first →