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Clever Traveler
A daily geography race: riddles, maps and routes
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A daily geography race: riddles, maps and routes
2 followers
Solve a riddle to find the city, pin it on the map, then pick flight, train, coach or car on a budget. Free, no sign-up, 5 minutes.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Chris. I built Clever Traveler because I wanted a Wordle-style daily game for people who love maps and travel.
Every day everyone gets the same race of four cities. For each stop you read a riddle and pin the city on the map (hints cost game time). Then you choose how to get there: flight, train, coach, car, sometimes a ferry. Each option differs in price, departure time, speed and how tired it leaves you, and a long wait can force a hotel choice. Score is money left, plus time left, plus an arrival quiz, plus a bonus for how close your first pin was.
Under the hood: the browser sends only your choices, and the server replays them to work out the score, so the leaderboard can't be faked. Distances are real, timetables and prices are invented, and every race is checked by a simulator so flying everywhere or always taking the cheapest option doesn't win.
It's free with no sign-up and takes about 5 minutes. I'd love your feedback on two things: is the riddle difficulty right, and does any strategy feel too dominant? Today's race: https://clevertraveler.app/?ref=ph