Georoute FAQ
Georoute is a free route-planning geography game played in the browser. You get two real cities and plan the best trip between them by car, boat, ship, plane or helicopter, aiming for the fastest trip, the cheapest fare or the fastest trip within a budget. Play solo, take the shared daily journey, work through 180 region missions, or race up to seven friends in a room.
About the game
What is Georoute?
Georoute is a free route-planning geography game that you play in a web browser at georoutegame.com. Each round gives you two real cities. You build a trip between them one hop at a time, choosing a car, boat, ship, plane or helicopter for every leg, and your route is scored against the best possible route for that round.
Is Georoute free? Do I need an account?
Georoute is free, with nothing to download and no account or email address. Solo games run in your browser. For multiplayer rooms you only type a username.
How do you play Georoute?
Pick a start and finish city and one of three modes: fastest trip, cheapest fare, or fastest trip within a budget. Tap a glowing city to choose your next stop, compare the vehicles that can get you there, and keep going until you reach the destination. You get three hints per round. A route within 1% of the optimum scores the full 1,000 points.
Playing with others and learning
Can I play Georoute with friends?
Yes. Create a public or private room for up to eight players, choose 3, 5 or 10 rounds and a planning limit of 2, 3 or 5 minutes per round, and share the invite link. Everyone races the same route at the same time. You can also send a challenge link after a solo round so a friend can try your exact puzzle and beat your score.
Is Georoute good for learning geography?
Georoute helps you learn where cities are and how places connect: which cities sit on the coast, which have airports, and which routes cross seas and borders. It does not quiz you on flags, capitals or country shapes, so it pairs well with games that do. Travel times and fares come from the game’s own model, so it teaches map sense rather than real timetables.
Can teachers use Georoute in a classroom?
Georoute needs no accounts or email addresses, which makes it quick to start in a lesson. A private room holds up to eight players, so a larger class can play in several rooms or in teams. Each round turns a map into a planning problem, and students can compare their routes and scores afterwards.
Compared with other geography games
How is Georoute different from Travle, Worldle or Globle?
Worldle and Globle ask you to identify a mystery country, from its outline or from how close your guesses are. Travle gives you two countries and asks you to connect them through their neighbours. Georoute also starts from a known start and finish, but the puzzle is the trip itself: which stops, which vehicles, and what each choice costs in time and money.
For a longer comparison of seven daily geography puzzles, read Games like Travle.
Daily journey, region missions, the map and the data
What is the Georoute daily journey?
Every day at midnight UTC, everyone gets the same start city, destination and mode. Your first attempt counts as your daily score, and replays are practice. Each day’s optimal route is published in the daily journey archive after the day ends; the archive starts on 16 September 2026.
What are Georoute region missions?
Region missions are 180 fixed route puzzles: 30 for each of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Oceania. Both cities of a mission are in the same region. Missions 1 to 10 are short hops, 11 to 20 cross countries, and 21 to 30 are long hauls. The mode rotates between fastest, cheapest and budget. Each finished mission earns one to three stars, and progress is saved in your browser.
Which places are on the Georoute map?
The world map has 1,806 cities in 208 countries and territories, with 1,508 airports and 453 seaports. They are linked by 13,575 flight routes, 5,473 road connections, 2,487 ship routes and 481 boat crossings. Helicopters can fly between any two places up to 250 km apart.
Where does the Georoute map data come from?
Cities come from GeoNames (cities with at least 15,000 people), airports and air routes from OpenFlights, and coastlines and ports from Natural Earth. Travel times and fares are calculated by the game itself from distance, vehicle speed, boarding time and fare rules.
Are Georoute’s travel times and prices real?
No. The places are real, but times and fares follow the game’s own travel model, not real timetables or ticket prices. Use Georoute to practise geography and planning, not to book a trip.
All six regions are explained in the region missions guide.
Data sources: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), OpenFlights (ODbL) and Natural Earth (public domain).
Devices and languages
Does Georoute work on phones? Which languages does it support?
Georoute runs in modern browsers on phones, tablets and computers. The game is available in English and German.
Contact
How can I contact Georoute?
Email info@georoutegame.com with questions, bug reports, classroom requests, press enquiries or feedback on the game.
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