Rank five French cities, identify a monument in a photo and place a city on the map. Five free rounds, no sign-up, with the same daily challenge for everyone.
Le Bon Rang is a free daily game about French cities: five cities, one stat, get the order right. Every day you play five rounds. The first three are rankings: you drag five French cities into the right order for a single theme, such as population, density, surface area, distance to Paris, distance to the sea, or northernmost, all from official INSEE and IGN records. Then comes a photograph of a monument to put a city name to, and a blank map of France to pin one last city on.
The five rounds contain 900 points: 600 from the rankings themselves (40 per exact placement and 10 per near miss), 150 from the photo round and 150 from the closing map round. Every perfect ranking adds 25 bonus points, and the three "6th place" bonuses can add another 150, so a flawless day scores 1125/900. One puzzle per day, with the same line-ups for everyone.
Le Bon Rang is a free daily French-cities ranking game. Each day you play five rounds: three rankings where you drag five cities into the correct order for one theme, such as population, density, surface area or distance to the sea, then a photo round where you name the city a monument stands in, then a map round where you pin one last city.
A day contains 900 points from its five rounds. The rankings contain 600: 40 per correctly placed city and 10 per near miss (one spot off). The photo and map rounds contain 150 and 150. Each all-green ranking adds a 25-point bonus, and the "6th place" bonuses add up to 150 more outside those 900 points, so the highest score is 1125. The percentile shown beside the score compares players on misplacements and total time rather than on the points.
Ranking rounds draw from official commune records, and each day plays three of them in the same order: a geography theme first (population, density in inhabitants per km², surface area, distance to Paris, distance to the sea, how far north the city sits), then real life (median income, rent per m², the share cycling to work, pupils in private schools), then a round just for fun (rugby or pétanque licences, bars per inhabitant, wine shops, boars culled).
The photo round shows a photograph of a monument somewhere in France and asks one question: which city does it stand in? You type an answer, with suggestions from three letters on, and you get 3 guesses worth 150 / 100 / 60 points, so the first guess is the one that counts. After 2 misses the round hands you the département, or you can buy it before your first guess for 50 points. The photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences (public domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA), and the reveal credits the photographer with a link to the source.
The map round closes the day: Le Bon Rang shows a blank map of France and one more city, and you tap to drop your pin, confirm, and see how many kilometres off you were. The closer the pin, the more of the round's 150 points it banks. Like the photo round it can be skipped, which never touches your streak but does forfeit the points.
Yes. Pick your city once and every reveal shows where it ranks for the day's theme among nearly a thousand French cities over 10,000 inhabitants, with a little celebration when it lands in the day's round.
Yes. Le Bon Rang is completely free, with no account, no sign-up and no download. It runs in any web browser on phone, tablet or desktop, and can be installed as an app (PWA).
A new puzzle is published every day at midnight in your local timezone. Everyone playing the same calendar day gets the same city line-ups, so scores are shareable and comparable.
Le Bon Rang is fully playable in English, French, Spanish and German, each at its own address: lebonrang.fr/en/ for English, /fr/ for French, /es/ for Spanish and /de/ for German. The bare address redirects you to your own language.
Every value comes from official French public data: INSEE legal populations and the IGN commune registry, served by geo.api.gouv.fr. Distances are measured as the crow flies from the commune's centre, and each round cites its source. The photo round's photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences, credited to their photographers.
A few of the game's themes, as full rankings of French cities.
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