FAQ

Geonym is a daily acrostic feature game. Each day gives you a word, and every letter is a slot in your place list. Fill each slot with a feature whose title starts with that letter to spell out the whole word.

The cards below the place list are optional bonuses. Matching a bonus's criteria with your feature choices earns its star (★). They're not required to finish a puzzle — they're just for bragging rights.

Yes. Your feature choices for each day are stored in your browser, so a refresh won't lose your progress. Because it's stored locally, progress doesn't carry across different devices or browsers.

Yes. Open the menu and choose History to review or continue any previous day. Each entry links straight back to that day's puzzle.

Technically, yes — if you find a way to access a future day before it's officially released. But future days are still subject to change as the project develops, so there's no guarantee its word or star bonuses will be the same once the day actually releases. Once released, a day's word and bonuses are locked in and shouldn't change again.

No. Geonym is intended to remain free, without ads, subscriptions, paid features, or the sale of personal data.

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No. Geonym doesn't require an account, and it doesn't ask for or collect any personal information about you.

Your puzzle progress and display preferences are saved only in your browser's local storage on your device and isn't sent to any servers. Clearing your browser data will remove it, but you can first download a copy of your puzzle progress from the Export page.

Geonym doesn't set tracking cookies. We use GoatCounter to see aggregate visit counts, which is cookie-free and doesn't track you across sites or store any personal data.

Geonym uses a pre-generated collection built from Natural Earth and GeoNames. Natural Earth provides countries, provinces, physical features, marine features, boundaries, and disputed-area data. GeoNames provides cities, towns, settlement names, populations, and administrative divisions. Country currencies and official-language classifications come from the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR). The mledoze/countries dataset supplies landlocked status, and Wikidata supplies city founded years and named-after metadata.

No. Place search uses static files served with Geonym. The source data is downloaded and processed when the place collection is generated, so your searches are not sent to either provider.

Large geographic features can cross timezone boundaries. Geonym samples each feature against IANA timezone boundaries and lists every timezone it finds, so countries, oceans, rivers, and other broad features may have several.

Disputed status reflects classifications and disputed-area boundaries in Natural Earth. Geonym uses neutral wording and does not attempt to decide sovereignty or endorse any claim. Geographic names, boundaries, and status descriptions are provided for gameplay and may not represent every viewpoint.