Expedition 39 ran on Thursday 12 November 2026: 99 accepted answers across five prompts, 8 of them in the 100 km band, plus 6 featured gems. Every answer is below, 100 km first.
01Pin a country with a Red Sea coast
Djibouti · Farflung Expedition 39
Farflung100 km
Djibouti★
Elusive85 km
Jordan
Rare70 km
Eritrea
Israel
Sudan
Uncommon55 km
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Common40 km
Egypt
Djibouti is the featured answer because its shoreline runs along the Bab-el-Mandeb, the strait that closes the Red Sea's southern end, so the country faces the water for roughly 50 km.
Djibouti lands in the 100 km Farflung band — 1 of this prompt’s 8 accepted answers reach it.
Frequent miss. Somalia is the usual miss: it sits on the Gulf of Aden, one sea over, even though it shares the same Horn of Africa coastline.
02Pin a country the Tropic of Cancer crosses by land
Bahamas · Farflung Expedition 39
Farflung100 km
Bahamas★
Elusive85 km
Chad
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
Oman
Rare70 km
Algeria
Bangladesh
Egypt
Libya
Myanmar
Saudi Arabia
Taiwan
United Arab Emirates
Uncommon55 km
India
Mexico
Common40 km
China
The Tropic of Cancer crosses the Exuma chain, so the line makes landfall in the Bahamas instead of passing over open water; Little Exuma even has a beach named after the tropic.
Bahamas lands in the 100 km Farflung band — 1 of this prompt’s 17 accepted answers reach it.
Frequent miss. Cuba is the frequent wrong pin: the tropic runs through the water just north of the island and never touches Cuban land.
03Pin a country where a Marvel film was shot or set
Bangladesh · Philippines · Farflung Expedition 39
Farflung100 km
Bahrain
Bangladesh★
Croatia
Philippines★
Elusive85 km
Afghanistan
Argentina
Austria
Chile
Costa Rica
Cuba
Denmark
Ghana
Greece
Guatemala
Haiti
Iraq
Malaysia
Mali
Morocco
Netherlands
Nigeria
Pakistan
Peru
Poland
Romania
Slovenia
Spain
Switzerland
Syria
Turkey
Uganda
Vietnam
Zambia
Rare70 km
Brazil
China
Czechia
Egypt
France
Germany
Hungary
Iceland
India
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Monaco
Nepal
New Zealand
Norway
Russia
South Africa
South Korea
Uncommon55 km
Australia
Canada
United Kingdom
Common40 km
United States
Marvel films have used both countries as real locations: the Philippine rice terraces stand in for Thanos's retirement world, and Age of Ultron shot extra footage in Chittagong's ship-breaking yards.
Bangladesh and Philippines both land in the 100 km Farflung band — 4 of this prompt’s 56 accepted answers reach it.
Frequent miss. Wakanda and Sokovia are the common traps. The official note says fictional countries stand for nowhere, so neither can be pinned.
04Pin a country where turkeys live in the wild
France · Farflung Expedition 39
Farflung100 km
France★
Elusive85 km
Australia
Czechia
Germany
New Zealand
Rare70 km
Belize
Guatemala
Uncommon55 km
Canada
Mexico
Common40 km
United States
Wild turkeys were released in France and their descendants still live free there, so the country qualifies even though the bird itself is American.
France lands in the 100 km Farflung band — 1 of this prompt’s 10 accepted answers reach it.
Frequent miss. Turkey is the classic miss: the bird took its English name from guineafowl traded through Anatolia, and no wild turkeys live there.
05Pin a country the Carpathian Mountains run through
Austria · Farflung Expedition 39
Farflung100 km
Austria★
Elusive85 km
Czechia
Serbia
Rare70 km
Hungary
Slovakia
Uncommon55 km
Poland
Ukraine
Common40 km
Romania
The Carpathians reach Austria at the Hundsheimer Berge, a low spur beside the Danube that tops out at 481 metres — small, but enough to put Austria inside the range.
Austria lands in the 100 km Farflung band — 1 of this prompt’s 8 accepted answers reach it.
Frequent miss. Switzerland is the usual substitution: it belongs to the Alps, a different chain, and the Carpathians never reach it.
Farflung answers by band
How this expedition’s 99 accepted answers spread across the five bands.
Band
Distance
Answers
Share
Farflung
100 km
8
8%
Elusive
85 km
41
41%
Rare
70 km
34
34%
Uncommon
55 km
11
11%
Common
40 km
5
5%
A prompt with a long Elusive or Farflung tier has a wider answer set than its first few names suggest; the cards below show every accepted country, not just the ones that scored furthest.
Farflung answers FAQ
How are Farflung tiers calculated?
Every accepted answer is sorted into one of five bands: Common at 40 km, Uncommon at 55 km, Rare at 70 km, Elusive at 85 km and Farflung at 100 km. The band depends on how rare the pin was among players — the fewer people who named a country for that prompt, the higher its kilometre value. This site reads the bands from the official day file rather than recalculating them.
Why did my Farflung answer score 0 km?
A 0 km result means the pin was not accepted at all. Either the country is not on the game’s list for that prompt, or it fails the condition the prompt asks for — a coastline it does not have, a border it does not share, a range it does not touch. Only answers that clear the condition appear on this page, so a country can be a perfectly real place and still score nothing.
How many answers does each prompt accept?
It varies a lot by prompt. The five questions in Expedition 39 accept between 8 and 56 answers each, 99 in total, and the count on each card is the official tally for that day. Broad prompts collect dozens of answers; narrow ones collect a handful.
What does the gem mean?
A featured gem is the game’s own pick for that prompt — usually the rarest or most surprising accepted answer, sometimes two of them. The gem is not a different tier: it still sits in one of the five kilometre bands and is marked with a star in the list. Expedition 39 has 6 of them, each with a note explaining the pick.
