Single Player

FreeGuessr offers multiple game modes for every skill level.

Single Player Modes

🎓 Tutorial

New to the game? Start with the Tutorial to learn the basics:

• How to navigate Street View
• How to use the map and place guesses
• Understanding scoring

Free Play

The casual, relaxed way to play. Take your time, explore, and guess at your own pace.

Key features:

• Configurable time limits — Set any round time or disable limits entirely
• Skip rounds — don't like a location? Skip it
• All maps available — World, regional, or custom maps
• All streak tracking — Country, Region, and Subregion streaks are tracked
• Leaderboards — compete for high scores on any map

Free Play supports all movement options:

• Moving — Walk along roads freely
• No Move — Pan around but cannot move
• NMPZ — Single static image (No Move, Pan, or Zoom)
• Blink — Brief glimpse (0.1 to 10 seconds)

Country Streak (Competitive)

The competitive single-player mode with predefined rules.

Key features:

• Same round time for everyone — All players compete under identical conditions
• No skipping — Every round counts
• Streak tracking — Country, Region, and Subregion streaks with global rankings
• All movement options — Move, No Move, NMPZ, Blink

One wrong guess ends your streak. Build consecutive correct guesses to climb the leaderboards.

Streak Types

FreeGuessr supports three levels of streak precision.

Country Streaks

• Guess the correct country each round

Region Streaks (States/Provinces)

• Guess the correct region, so first-level subdivision
• Examples: US states, German Länder, Polish voivodeships, Japanese prefectures

Subregion Streaks

• Guess the correct subregion - second-level subdivision
• Examples: US counties, Polish powiaty, German Kreise

📏 Streak Accuracy

FreeGuessr uses 10-meter accuracy for streak detection.

• Powered by robust geo data from TrueSize.NET
• 55,000+ regions worldwide
• Country detection at equator-level precision
• No ambiguity at borders

⏱️ Anti-Cheat Protection

Country Streak and Challenge games include anti-cheat measures:

• No timer tricks — Once a round starts, it can only be resumed while the timer is active. No refreshing for extra time.
• Game recordings — Some games include session recordings visible from the leaderboard view and are reviewed by community and moderators.
• Fair play enforcement — Admins can issue warnings and bans for rule violations. Banned users are removed from all leaderboards and can be removed from the game completely.

Movement Options

Both Free Play and Country Streak support these movement settings:

Moving (Default)

The classic way to play:

• Move along roads by clicking arrows or pressing W/S
• Pan 360° by clicking and dragging
• Zoom in/out for detail

No Move

Cannot move from your starting position, but you can:

• Pan around to see surroundings
• Zoom in on signs and details

NMPZ (No Move, Pan, or Zoom)

The ultimate challenge. Single static image — no movement, no panning, no zooming.

Blink

Ultra-fast mode. You get a brief glimpse (configurable from 0.1 seconds), then the image disappears. Make your guess from memory.

Game Settings

When starting a Free Play game, you can customize things like:

Setting	Options
Map	World, featured and community maps
Move Mode	Move, No Move, NMPZ, Blink
Round Time	0.1s to unlimited
Rounds	1–10+ per game
Allow guessing after timeout	On / Off
Hide Street Names	On / Off (unlocks at Level 3)

Scoring

Points are calculated using an exponential decay formula based on your distance from the correct location and map size.

For World Map Approximate Score looks like:

Distance	Approximate Score
100 m	~10,000
1 km	~9,995
10 km	~9,950
100 km	~9,512
500 km	~7,788
1,000 km	~6,065
2,000 km	~3,679
5,000 km	~821
10,000 km	~67

Bonus XP: Earn extra XP for No Move and NMPZ games, plus streak bonuses.

Next Steps

• Controls & Shortcuts — Master keyboard navigation
• Daily Streaks — Compete in daily streak challenges
• Multiplayer — Compete in Arena, Duels, and Party modes