Chart № 07 · The manual
Guides
Everything mechanical about Miles Off, written down, plus honest craft for the part that isn't mechanical at all: knowing where things are. The first shelf documents the game; the second is a working field guide to the world itself, useful whether or not you ever start the clock.
Playing Miles Off
How scoring worksThe exact formulas: distance points, the 30 km bullseye, the speed bonus, and how a run becomes an Explorer IQ.Feature rounds, explainedRivers, lakes, deserts, seas and ranges: why pinning anywhere on the Amazon scores zero kilometres.The Daily Challenge & leaderboardsOne shot a day, the same five places for everyone, server-verified scores, streaks, and when it all rolls over.Getting better: reading the globePractical technique: anchors, coastline logic, and the classic mistakes that cost players thousands of kilometres.
Knowing the world
A mental map in twelve anchorsThe dozen cities that pin down the whole planet, and how to place everything else relative to them.Why everyone misplaces AfricaMercator lied to you. True sizes, latitude surprises, and how to recalibrate your inner map.Latitude tells: reading climate into positionDeserts at 25°, vineyards at 40°, taiga at 60°: how a place’s climate leaks its coordinates.The world’s most confusable placesSlovakia or Slovenia? Dakar or Dhaka? The look-alike names that cost players entire hemispheres.Seven straits that explain the mapGibraltar to Malacca: the narrow waters that organise world geography (and a lot of world history).How far is a degree?The 111-kilometre rule, why longitude shrinks toward the poles, and what a great circle really is.The capitals nobody guessesBrasília, Canberra, Astana, Naypyidaw: purpose-built capitals, and why the biggest city is so often wrong.Where the atlas goes sparse: island nationsLearning the arcs of the Pacific, Caribbean and Indian Ocean instead of hunting single pixels.The 10 hardest countries to placeThe -stans, the two Guianas, the Horn micro-states and the Pacific outliers: the countries people miss most, and how to pin each.Why nobody guesses NaypyidawMyanmar's built-from-nothing capital, the moved-capital trap that fools everyone, and how to actually place it.The great circle illusionWhy the shortest path looks bent on a flat map, why flights to Asia arc over the Arctic, and how it warps your guesses.