What Does “Farflung” Mean?

The word

Farflung (also spelled far-flung or far flung) is an adjective describing something a great distance away, or spread over a very large area: a farflung island, a farflung network of outposts, far-flung corners of the world. It’s literally “far” + “flung” — thrown a long way.

Typical usage:

• “She spent a decade reporting from far-flung places.”
• “The kingdom’s far-flung provinces rarely saw the capital.”
• “A farflung family scattered across four continents.”

Dictionaries usually list it as far-flung; style guides vary, and all three spellings appear in the wild. In casual writing — and in the game’s branding — the unhyphenated farflung is common.

The game

Farflung is a free daily geography game built on that idea: each day you get five prompts, pin a country on the world map for each, and the rarer your answers, the further you travel. The game’s top rarity tier is called Farflung — the answer almost nobody thinks of, thrown furthest of all.

Example: for a prompt like “name a country where German is an official language”, Germany counts, but Belgium — a farflung answer — carries you much further.

New here? Read the how-to-play guide, check the rarity tiers, and get spoiler-free clues on the today page before you play.

Quick answers

• Is it “farflung” or “far-flung”? Both are accepted; dictionaries prefer the hyphen, the game uses one word.
• Is “farflung” one word or two? As an adjective it’s one (optionally hyphenated); “far” and “flung” split only in other constructions.
• What is the Farflung game? A daily five-prompt world-map quiz where rare answers win — see the rules.