Sounds
Every World Stage run uses ten recordings selected for that day.
The daily sound geography challenge
Ten sounds. One shared challenge. A fresh trip around the world every day.
Seconds
You have thirty seconds to listen, inspect the map, and submit each guess.
Attempt
You get one World Stage run each day, and the completed score joins the leaderboard.
Everyone hears the same world
World Stage is designed for a fair daily comparison without revealing the answers ahead of time.
The same selection
Each player receives the same set of ten sounds for the date. Recordings from the same original source are kept from repeating within that daily selection.
A leaderboard that resets daily
Finish your counting attempt to place on the board. Higher total scores rank first; when scores tie, the earlier completion ranks ahead.
Build a better guess
Treat every recording as a place full of overlapping evidence.
Start broad
Listen for climate, urban density, landscape, and the overall acoustic space before choosing a country.
Find human clues
Language, announcements, traffic patterns, tools, bells, and public transport can narrow a region.
Notice nature
Birds, insects, water, wind, and vegetation can support—or challenge—your first impression.
Use hints deliberately
A hint can rescue a difficult round, but each one costs 5 points. Decide whether certainty is worth the trade.
How the daily score works
Each round rewards a correct country with 20 points. A correct answer submitted within five seconds adds 10 points. If the country is wrong but directly neighbors the answer, you receive 5 close-guess points.
Each hint used subtracts 5 points. Your ten round scores are added together for the daily total.
Correct country+20
Correct in under 5 seconds+10
Neighboring country+5
Hint used−5
Daily challenge questions
Do I need to sign in?
Yes. Sign-in connects your one counting attempt to the daily leaderboard.
When does the challenge reset?
A new World Stage opens at midnight UTC.
Can I play again?
World Stage allows one completed attempt per day. Create a private room if you want to keep playing afterward.
Are the sounds translated?
Sound titles and hints are shown in the locale selected in the game when a translation is available.