ORIGINMAP
A song plays. Drop a pin on the map where you think the artist is from. Closer is more points — same city is glory, same continent is at least something.
Pin the planet.
Listen
A clip plays. The genre tells you something. The accent tells you more. The instrumentation might tell you everything.
Drop a pin
Tap the map where you think the artist's hometown is. Pinch to zoom in for fine accuracy.
Score by distance
Closer is more points. Same country is solid. Same city is a perfect round.
How Originmap works.
Originmap is a daily music geography game. A song plays. You drop a pin on a world map at the place you think the artist is from. Closer pins score more points. There are usually three to five rounds per daily Originmap.
The rules
- Each round plays a 30-second clip.
- The world map is a single panable, zoomable view.
- Drop one pin per round to lock in.
- The actual origin city (or the canonical "from where" for the artist) is revealed after lock-in.
How points work
An exact-city guess earns the maximum. Points fall off with great-circle distance from the answer. Same continent typically scores well; same country always does; same city is a near-perfect score. Distance in kilometres is shown on the result screen.
A worked round
A clip plays — synthy, melancholic, female vocals in clear English with a slight Scandinavian inflection. You drop a pin on Stockholm. The answer is Reykjavík. Distance: 2,030 km. You score middling — you got the right hemisphere and continental zone, but missed the country. A pin on Iceland would have been near-max even without nailing Reykjavík.
Where the origins come from
Origin is the artist's canonical "from where" — typically the city where the act formed, or where the lead artist's career began. For solo artists with complicated origin stories (born X, raised Y, formed Z), the round uses the most widely-cited public origin. Originmap is a Pro-tier game inside Criticscale.