Departures: Travel Puzzle

Departures is a daily travel puzzle for people who like maps, airports and knowing which country drives on the left.

Every day there is one mystery destination, the same for everyone. You start with 100 points and a free clue, the flight time. For more, ask the tower: your friendly air traffic controller answers questions like "What money do they use?" or "Which side of the road do they drive on?". Each clue costs points, and so does each wrong guess, so a good game is a quick one. When you land, you get a postcard from the city with a fact worth knowing, and a stamp in your passport.

There is more if you stay: a streak (with a freeze that saves it through one missed day), daily, streak and average rankings, and private groups for friends.

And while you wait for tomorrow's flight, the Departure Lounge has more to play:

• Passport Control: name the country from its flag, hidden behind tiles.
• Flight Plan: draw where a flight really flies. Flat maps make it harder than you think.
• Multi-city: three stops, one score.
• Solo flights from your home airport, and past flights you missed.

Everything you play fills your passport: a stamp for every city, gold, silver or bronze for how well you did, a visa for every country you name, a log of every route you fly, and a calendar of your year.

It sounds like an airport too: the board clicks as it flips and your stamp lands with a sound of its own, with quiet music behind it all. Sounds and music each have a switch, and both follow your phone's silent switch.

You can play without an account. Signing in with Apple, Google or email keeps your streak and stamps if you change phone. A daily reminder is optional and set up on your phone.

Free, with no adverts and no tracking. Departures+ is an optional subscription, monthly or yearly, for unlimited games in the Departure Lounge. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and is managed in your Apple ID settings.

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