Le Bon Rang: the daily French-cities ranking game

A daily geography game about French cities

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.

How to play

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.

  1. Every day has five rounds: three rankings, then the photo round, then the map round.
  2. A ranking round shows five French cities and one theme, and the themes come in a fixed order: geography first (population, density, surface area, distance to Paris, distance to the sea, northernmost), then real life (median income, rent per m², cycling to work), then a round just for fun.
  3. Drag the cities into the order the theme asks for, for example most to least populous, or furthest from the sea to closest.
  4. Lock in your ranking to reveal the real values: green means the exact right spot, orange means one position off, red means further away.
  5. Each exactly placed city scores 40 points and a near miss (one spot off) scores 10. The three rankings contain 600 of the day's 900 points, and every all-green round adds a 25-point bonus above them. Players are compared on misplacements and total time, and each round links to its data source.
  6. Every reveal then opens one bonus slot inside the ranking you just solved and invites you to fill it: name a commune whose value falls between its two neighbours. The fewer of the day's players name the same one, the more it pays above the day's 900 content points, up to 50 bonus points a round.
  7. The photo round shows a photograph of a monument somewhere in France and asks which city it stands in. You get 3 guesses and they are worth 150 / 100 / 60 points, so the first one is the one that counts; after 2 misses the round gives you the département, or you can buy it before your first guess for 50 points.
  8. The last round shows a blank map of France and one more city: drop a pin where you think it is, and the reveal measures how many kilometres you were off, worth up to 150 points.
  9. You can skip the photo round or the map round, and skipping never touches your streak, but you forfeit their points.
  10. Pick your own city once and every reveal also shows where it ranks for the day's theme. Come back tomorrow for new themes, a new monument and new line-ups.
FAQ

What is Le Bon Rang?

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.

How is my score calculated?

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.

Which themes can appear?

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).

How does the photo round work?

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.

What is the map round?

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.

Can I see my own city's rank?

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.

Is Le Bon Rang free?

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).

When does a new puzzle come out?

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.

Which languages does Le Bon Rang support?

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.

Where does the data come from?

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.

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