1,979 m²
All the same size
About 50 metres across, everywhere on Earth. A pentagon in Reykjavík is the same size as one in Rotherhithe, so the counts are worth comparing.
Every pentagon on Earth, counted
How many people
have been exactly
where you are?
The Earth is cut into pentagons about 50 metres across: a garden, a bus stop, a stretch of pavement. Each one keeps a count of how many people have ever been in it, and how many times. Cross one on foot, by bike, by car or by train, and you are counted.
Get the appFree, on iPhone.
Have a look around. Recording happens in the app, and here is why.
Two numbers on every pentagon.
How many different people have ever been in it, and how many visits in total. Everything else (the boards, the records, the map) is built out of those two.
1st
First is first, forever
Whoever is recorded in a pentagon first keeps it. It never transfers and never expires. It also gets you nothing whatsoever, which somehow makes it better.
∞
Room for everybody
Nothing here is owned, captured or defended. Ten thousand people can be counted in the same pentagon and every one of them counts in full. Somebody crossing where you crossed takes nothing off you. It just adds one.
Three ways to be good at it.
Three separate boards, never added up into one score. Being brilliant at one of them is the point.
Cover more ground Reach
How many different pentagons you have ever been in. Rewards distance, and the long-distance driver wins it.
Go where others don't Rarity
Ground few others have touched. A pentagon nobody else has reached is worth more than a thousand on the high street.
Know your ground well Depth
Routine and locality. The same streets, over and over. Going absolutely nowhere is a legitimate strategy.
The part people do not expect
It is very good in a car.
Start a session, put the phone down, drive. It needs no attention at all: no tapping at junctions, no keeping the screen awake, nothing to look at. It records with the phone locked and stops on its own when the time you set runs out.
A commute picks up hundreds of pentagons, and the roads you drive every week keep climbing. Watching a familiar route fill in is oddly satisfying, and it means the game pays attention to journeys you were making anyway rather than asking you to make new ones.
You can read this site. You cannot record on it.
A browser cannot prove it is really standing where it says it is, and faking a location is a menu item. First is first forever, so a faked first would be too. Recording happens in the app. This site just shows what the counters say.
Get the app — free, on iPhone — and every pentagon you cross starts counting. The numbers here are live.