How to play
GeoFides is a daily game about places of faith. Every day brings five questions about the life of Jesus, the journeys of the apostles, shrines, miracles, saints and the history of the Church. You answer by tapping the place on the globe where it happened.
One round a day
A new round starts every day at midnight, Rome time. Everyone gets the same five questions that day, so it is easy to compare scores with family and friends.
A round started before midnight can still be finished after midnight.
How to answer
Read the question and tap the place on the globe. You can spin and zoom the globe, but the tap itself locks in your answer, and each question has only one try.
Precision
Every question starts on the same globe, with no hint of where in the world to look. Before you tap, you can spin and zoom it as much as you like.
The closer together the places of a theme lie, the more precise you need to be. A full score needs a tap within about 17 km for places around the world, about 4 km for biblical places in the Middle East and about 2 km for places from the life of Jesus in the Holy Land.
Points
Each answer earns 0 to 100 points: the closer to the right place, the more. For places around the world, missing by 500 km still gives about 88 points, and by 5,000 km about 50. In the Holy Land, 10 km off gives about 92 points, and the wrong region, such as Galilee instead of Jerusalem, about 60.
Later questions are worth more: questions 1 and 2 count once, question 3 twice, and questions 4 and 5 three times. The best possible score for a day is 1,000 points.
Every answer gets a coloured dot:
- 🕊️ Perfect: 100 points
- 🟢 Great: 90–99 points
- 🟡 Ballpark: 50–89 points
- 🔴 Miles off: 1–49 points
- ⚫ Antipodal: 0 points
Countries and several right places
When the answer is a whole country, as in questions about patron saints, a tap anywhere inside it earns 100 points. Outside the border, points depend on how far away you are and never exceed 89.
When tradition points to more than one place, as with Cana in Galilee or Emmaus, each of them is correct and the one closest to your tap counts.
After each answer
You will see where the right place is and how many kilometres away your tap landed, then read a short story about the place.
At the end of the round you get a summary and a result to share: your points and five coloured dots. The shared result gives away no answers, so you can send it before others have played.