These Farflung tips help you score more kilometres by finding correct answers other players overlook. The short version: skip your first idea, look at small countries and island nations, and read the prompt’s exact wording. Below are six tips with real data from 19 official Farflung expeditions.
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The method
The first country that comes to mind came to everyone else’s mind too. Use it as a safety net, not your pin.
Zoom into Europe’s microstates, the Caribbean and the Pacific. Most Farflung-tier answers are small.
Words such as “official”, “by land” or “today” decide edge cases. A rare pin that breaks the wording scores zero.
If two candidates fit, choose the less famous one. If you are unsure, fall back to the safe answer.
The most useful Farflung tip is to distrust your first idea. If a country jumps to mind in a second, it jumped to mind for thousands of other players too, and it will land in the lowest tier. Keep it as your fallback, then spend a few seconds looking for something less obvious that still fits.
The world has 25 countries smaller than 1,000 square kilometres, and they turn up in a surprising number of answer lists. Because players rarely picture them, they tend to be high-tier answers whenever they fit.
About 32 small countries have no land border at all. Prompts about the equator, the tropics, languages or monarchies all have island answers most players forget: Kiribati, the Maldives and São Tomé and Príncipe sit on the equator; Comoros, Seychelles and Vanuatu have French as an official language.
Many Farflung prompts reward one surprising fact. The euro, for example, is used by several countries that are not EU members:
Landlocked prompts have 45 valid answers, including San Marino and Vatican City. Know a few of these exceptions and you always have a rare answer ready.
Across 95 prompts in the official game, some places are valid again and again yet are rarely picked — the best “secret weapons”. The chart below is updated automatically from the official Farflung answers.
A rare pin is worthless if it breaks the rules. Watch for “official” (widely spoken is not enough), “by land” (sea borders do not count), “today” (a shop that closed does not count) and “country or territory” (only then do places such as Greenland count). When in doubt, take the safe answer.
Data
| Country or territory | Share in the rarest tiers | Rare / valid |
|---|---|---|
| Tonga | 10/10 · 100% | |
| Kiribati | 9/9 · 100% | |
| Burundi | 8/8 · 100% | |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 8/8 · 100% | |
| Solomon Islands | 8/8 · 100% | |
| Marshall Islands | 8/8 · 100% | |
| Kosovo | 7/7 · 100% | |
| Grenada | 7/7 · 100% | |
| Vanuatu | 7/7 · 100% | |
| Honduras | 7/7 · 100% | |
| Nicaragua | 7/7 · 100% | |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 7/7 · 100% |
Valid most often overall: United Kingdom, France, United States, China, Canada, Germany, Australia, Russia — usually common picks, which is why they score less.
Practise
The fastest way to make these tips automatic is repetition. Play Farflung Unlimited in Wander mode, study every reveal, then try today’s daily expedition.
Questions
Find one answer you are sure of first, then look for a rarer one that definitely fits. Only switch if you are confident: a wrong pin scores zero, while a common right answer still scores. Over many days, steady correct answers beat risky misses.
Small and lesser-known countries that fit many prompts: European microstates such as Andorra, Liechtenstein and San Marino, island nations such as Comoros, Nauru and Saint Kitts and Nevis, and countries with surprising facts, such as Kosovo using the euro. The table on this page lists the ones players pick least often in the official game.
Play Farflung Unlimited in Wander mode and study each reveal. The same rare countries come up again and again, so after a few dozen prompts you will start thinking of them first.
No. Rarity only pays if the answer is correct. When a prompt depends on a fact you are unsure of, such as which country has a certain shop or animal, take the safe answer and save the risk for prompts you know well.