Country City River
Country, city, river on one letter — with friends in real time, or solo.
About Country City River
Country City River is the paper game everyone already knows, on your phone. A letter is drawn, the clock starts, and everyone in the game fills the same columns: country, city, village, river, mountain, animal and plant, plus food, name and brand if the host adds them. Whoever finishes first hits STOP, and the rest get five more seconds. Two to six players, up to twenty rounds, and the host picks the categories, the letters and how long a round lasts before anyone starts.
Scoring is the one everybody argues about, written down: an answer nobody else wrote is worth 20, one somebody matched is 10, and if everyone wrote the same thing it is 5. If you think an answer does not count, you raise a dispute and the table votes — the majority decides, and a tie leaves the answer standing. The built-in word list sits beside an answer as a hint; it never rules instead of the players. There is also a solo run against the clock, which works offline once the word list has been downloaded, and statistics, levels, XP and 36 achievements behind all of it.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Country City River free to play?
Yes. It is free to download and play from Google Play. It is supported by ads served through Google AdMob, and there is no subscription and nothing to buy inside the game.
Do I need an account?
A guest account is created for you on first launch, with nothing to type in and no email address. Registering with an email address is optional and only there so your profile, statistics and achievements survive a change of phone. You can delete the account at any time in Settings.
How do my friends join a game?
Whoever creates the game gets a five-character code and a QR code. The others either type the code in or scan the QR code with the app's scanner. There is no public list of games, no matching with strangers and no chat — the only way in is a code someone shared with you.
Does it work without an internet connection?
The solo run does, once the word list for your language has been downloaded; after that it works in airplane mode. Games with other players are played in real time through the studio's server, so those need a connection.
Which language is a game played in?
The language of whoever created it. The categories, the letters that can be drawn and the word list all follow the host, so a game started in German is played in German even on a phone set to English.
Does the app decide whether an answer is correct?
No. In a game with other players the word list is advisory: it marks an answer it does not recognise, and that is all. Whether the answer counts is decided by a dispute and a vote of the players, exactly as it is around a table. A tied vote leaves the answer standing.
What are the coins for?
Creating a game costs coins, which keeps half-finished games from piling up. Coins are earned by playing and through a daily grant, and you can watch an ad for more if you want to. They cannot be bought for money and cannot be cashed out.
Which languages does the game support?
Bosnian, English and German. Each has its own categories, its own letters and its own word list, written for that language rather than translated.
What data does the game collect?
The studio's server keeps your account (the name and avatar colour you pick, and your email address only if you register), a random identifier that ties a guest account to your phone, the games you played with the answers and scores in them, and your statistics and achievements. Your IP address is used at the moment of a request to limit abuse and is not stored. The game also sends automatic crash reports to Sentry in the EU, and the Google AdMob SDK that serves the ads collects an advertising ID and device information. The privacy policy sets all of this out in full.