What is Blind Tasting?
Blind Tasting shows you a photograph of a single plate of food and asks which country it comes from. You enter a country rather than the dish’s name, so recognising a bubbling red stew is only the first step—you still have to choose between Korea, China and Japan. The game looks like a daily newspaper, complete with a dated masthead and edition number, and saves your record in a passport instead of a stats page.
How to play Blind Tasting
Study the photograph. There is no caption or dish name, only the image beneath the line “Photograph, today’s plate.” Type a country in the field and choose from the autocomplete; only real country names are accepted. After each guess, read the verdict and the clue it unlocks. The counter moves from “Four guesses remaining” to “1 guess remaining.” Keep guessing until you solve the puzzle or run out of guesses. Each wrong answer opens the next clue card.
Asking for the country removes pure recognition and adds a second step of reasoning. Someone who cooks frequently can still lose because naming the food alone is not enough. The clue ladder moves from geography to ingredients to national context, so each miss narrows the map in a different dimension. The reveal includes the dish’s real name, a paragraph on how it is eaten at home, and a spoiler-free share card. The numbered editions and passport make the game feel like collecting something instead of simply clearing a task.
Reading the feedback
Each guess gets a result. A wrong answer is marked “WRONG,” while “SAME CONTINENT” tells you that you are in the right part of the world without giving away the country. Every wrong guess unlocks a numbered clue card in a fixed order. Clue I names the continent. Clue II describes the dish in menu prose, turning a stew into “a bold, spicy stew built around fermented cabbage, tofu and pork.” Clue III leaves food behind for a fact about the country’s history or economy. If you use all your guesses, the answer appears as a full card with the country, the dish’s name, a paragraph explaining why it matters there, and a mock-solemn rank signed by The Lost Tourist.
Start with a country that seems plausible, even if you are not sure it is correct. Clue I reveals the continent, so a first guess that identifies the SAME CONTINENT is more useful than a wild stab: either way, you learn the continent.
Do not turn the photo into a dish name in your head. The game does not ask you to name the dish, and doing so can mislead you because several countries cook the same thing. What matters is where it originated.
Read Clue II as a recipe. The ingredients are listed in order of importance, and the fermentation, fat, and chilli in that sentence help distinguish neighbouring cuisines.
Clue III is deliberately not about food. It describes the country’s trajectory or history, so use it as the tiebreaker if you are still choosing between two neighbours.
Modes
The daily edition offers one dish, four guesses, numbered like an issue of a newspaper. My Passport is an optional account that carries your streak and food history across devices. It requires an email but no password.