Pack
Countries
Armies, economies, tourists, area, people
85 lotsFree from level 1
Every lot is a country. Each duel is judged on army, economy, tourism, area or population, revealed after the auction.
Judged on
- Army · active military personnel
- Economy · size of the economy
- Tourism · visitors a year
- Area · land area
- Population · people
Ratings are never shown. You bid on what you believe, then the arena reveals who was right.
How a match works
- Auction. Twelve of the 85 lots come up one by one. Both players start with twenty coins.
- Lineup. Each player secretly assigns their five lots to the five duels: Army, Economy, Tourism, Area, Population.
- Arena. The five duels play out and every lot adds its power. The side with the bigger total takes the match, however the individual duels fell.
All 85 lots in Countries
- IndiaSubcontinent of a billion stories and one cricket obsession
- ChinaGreat Wall, greater factories
- United StatesFifty states, one very loud democracy
- IndonesiaSeventeen thousand islands, one archipelago nation
- PakistanCricket, mountains and the Indus
- NigeriaNollywood, Afrobeats and Africa's biggest economy
- BrazilSamba, football and half of the Amazon
- BangladeshRivers everywhere and the world's busiest delta
- RussiaEleven time zones of winter
- EthiopiaCoffee's birthplace, never colonised
- MexicoTacos, pyramids and a megacity on a lake
- JapanBullet trains, sumo and vending machines
- EgyptPyramids in the suburbs, the Nile in the middle
- PhilippinesSeven thousand islands that love karaoke
- DR CongoRainforest, rivers and the heart of Africa
- VietnamPho, motorbikes and a very long coastline
- IranPersian poetry, saffron and ancient empires
- TurkeyTwo continents, one skyline of minarets
- GermanyEngineering, autobahns and punctual trains
- ThailandTemples, beaches and street food capital
- United KingdomTea, queues and a royal family
- TanzaniaKilimanjaro and the Serengeti migration
- FranceBaguettes, boulevards and a revolution or two
- South AfricaRainbow nation with three capitals
- ItalyPasta, Renaissance and hand gestures
- KenyaMarathon runners and the Maasai Mara
- MyanmarGolden pagodas along the Irrawaddy
- ColombiaCoffee, Caribbean coast and the Andes
- South KoreaK-pop, kimchi and the fastest internet
- SudanMore pyramids than Egypt
- UgandaThe pearl of Africa, source of the Nile
- SpainTapas, siestas and late dinners
- AlgeriaAfrica's largest country, mostly Sahara
- ArgentinaTango, steak and Messi
- IraqCradle of civilisation between two rivers
- AfghanistanMountains, kites and the Hindu Kush
- YemenMocha coffee and mud skyscrapers
- CanadaMaple syrup and very polite hockey fans
- PolandPierogi and a phoenix of a history
- MoroccoSouks, mint tea and the Atlas mountains
- AngolaOil, diamonds and kizomba
- UkraineBreadbasket of Europe
- UzbekistanSilk Road cities of Samarkand and Bukhara
- MalaysiaTwin towers and street food in Penang
- MozambiqueIndian Ocean beaches and prawns
- GhanaGold Coast, highlife and jollof
- PeruMachu Picchu and ceviche
- Saudi ArabiaDeserts, oil and the two holy cities
- MadagascarLemurs and baobabs, nowhere else
- NepalEight of the ten highest peaks
- AustraliaDeadly animals and beautiful beaches
- North KoreaThe hermit kingdom
- TaiwanNight markets and the world's chips
- Sri LankaTea, elephants and cricket
- KazakhstanSteppe the size of Western Europe
- ChileA country as long as a continent
- RomaniaCarpathians, castles and Dracula
- NetherlandsBikes, tulips and land stolen from the sea
- EcuadorNamed after the equator, home of the Galápagos
- CambodiaAngkor Wat at sunrise
- ZimbabweVictoria Falls, the smoke that thunders
- BelgiumWaffles, chocolate and five hundred beers
- JordanPetra carved into rose-red rock
- CubaClassic cars and cigars
- United Arab EmiratesBuilt a skyline in a generation
- CzechiaBeer, castles and Prague's astronomical clock
- SwedenFlat-pack furniture and fika
- PortugalExplorers, pastéis de nata and fado
- GreeceIslands, philosophy and the Olympics
- HungaryThermal baths and goulash
- IsraelStart-up nation on the Mediterranean
- AustriaAlps, Mozart and schnitzel
- SwitzerlandWatches, chocolate and neutrality
- DenmarkHygge and Lego
- SingaporeA garden city that runs like a watch
- FinlandSaunas, lakes and the happiest people
- NorwayFjords and a sovereign wealth fund
- IrelandPubs, poets and green hills
- New ZealandMore sheep than people, and Middle-earth
- UruguayMate, beaches and two World Cups
- QatarGas, glass towers and a World Cup
- EstoniaDigital nation with medieval streets
- LuxembourgTiny, rich and trilingual
- MaltaFortress island in the Mediterranean
- IcelandVolcanoes, glaciers and no mosquitoes