# Hemiscope — Geography puzzles & duels > Geography puzzles & duels (iPhone/iPad app by Kyle Tora.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hemiscope/id6806624825 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Kyle Tora](https://appshunter.io/developer/1804124977) - Category: Games, Puzzle, Trivia - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 71 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-04 - Data updated: 2026-10-13 ## What is Hemiscope? Eight daily puzzles, printed fresh at midnight. Then race a friend across the islands, or see how far you can survive. Hemiscope is a daily edition, not an endless feed. Everything resets at midnight, everyone plays the same puzzles, and when you've finished the day's eight you're done. Come back tomorrow. TODAY'S EIGHT Hemiscope — Find the mystery country in eight tries. Every guess tells you how far away it is and in which direction, plus its region, population, area, shared flag colours and whether it's landlocked. Your guesses light up on a 3D globe. Atlas — You're given a country. Tap where its capital sits on the globe. Five rounds, scored on how close you land. Timeline — Seven moments in history, one timeline. Drag each card to where you think it belongs. Three lives. Vault — Three riddles, three digits, one safe. Every riddle answers to a single digit, so answer them, turn the dial, and try the combination. Odd One Out — Four countries. Three of them belong. Tap the one that doesn't. Ladder — A handful of things, one correct order. The category changes daily: tallest mountains one day, biggest deserts the next. Pinpoint — One country, five scales. Place it on each and find out how close you were. No Idea — One impossible number a day, like how many islands Sweden has. You get one guess, and the closer you land, the higher you score. Every game is scored out of 100, and your report card shows how many of the eight you solved. Share your whole day as a spoiler-free grid. DUEL: ISLAND RUSH Eight challenges, one shared clock, two phones. Answer faster and better than your rival to build golden shortcuts across the islands. Most steps down the course wins. Rounds mix trivia, flags, map drops, time shuffles and the vault dial. Tap Find a match to race whoever else is looking, or race a friend live, or take on Hemibot at one of four difficulties. SURVIVAL: HIGHER OR LOWER Two countries, one stat. Is the next one higher or lower? Population, forests, coffee, Big Macs, and the calls get closer the further you walk down the canyon. Three lives and no end to the path. How far can you go? TOURNAMENTS: ON THEIR WAY Live events where everyone plays the same rounds at the same moment, for stars and a place on the podium. Turn on tournament alerts to hear when one opens. YOUR EXPLORER Every puzzle, race and run earns stars. Spend them on explorers, banners, card frames and emotes, and earn medals and titles by playing. Your look travels with you onto your player card. Sign in with Apple is optional. You only need an account to add friends, duel them, join tournaments and appear on the leaderboard. The daily puzzles, Survival, your stats and your streaks all work without one. Hemiscope is free to play. Ads appear only on finished screens, never during play, and a single purchase removes them. Made by Kyro Game Studios. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.7.1 — 2026-10-05 • Every game is now scored out of 100. • Survival now has lives. • New finish screen and report card. • Bug fixes and improvements. ### 1.7 — 2026-10-04 • New daily game: No Idea. Guess one impossible number a day. The closer you land, the higher you score. • Every daily game is now scored out of 100, and your day adds up out of 800. • A new finish screen: watch your score count up and see the stars you earned. • Survival has lives. Out of lives? Watch an ad or spend stars to keep going. • Fresh looks for Pinpoint and Timeline. • Left a game half-played at midnight? Finish it the next morning. • Three new medals: Good Guesser, Wild Guesser and Bullseye. • Bug fixes and improvements. ### 1.6 — 2026-10-01 • Goofy mode in Survival: every question is a silly one. Are there more pandas in China or moose in Canada • Nine new things to compare in Survival • Over 100 new Duel questions (trivia, flags and maps) • Find a match now shows the difficulty before the race starts. • Timeline: 80 new events from films, music, sport and inventions • A new Framer medal for collecting frames. • Bug fixes and improvements. ### 1.5 — 2026-09-28 • Find a match is faster: one queue, random difficulty • More answers come with pictures • Tournaments coming soon. Tap Notify me to hear when • Boards and streaks roll over properly at midnight • Smoother duels and a leaderboard in the right order • A smaller download, about 30 MB lighter • Plenty of fixes ### 1.4.1 — 2026-09-23 Meet Survival, the new endless course: two countries, one stat, and you call whether the next one is higher or lower. Population, forests, coffee, Big Macs — it gets closer the further you walk, and every flag you reach earns stars. Dress up your player card with new frames, titles you earn by playing, and sticker emotes to send mid-race. The shop is easier to browse, with everything two across. Race rewards now show on the finish screen, your rival's name appears on their pin in map rounds, and the final question of a duel always shows its answer. 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