About
EthnoGuessr is a browser-based quiz game inspired by GeoGuessr, replacing geographic landscapes with composite images of male and female faces from various ethnic groups. The game uses anthropological data to challenge players to guess the group’s historical geographic origin by clicking a location on a world map, awarding points based on proximity. The correct ethnic name and background information are displayed after each guess. A new set of ten groups is made available daily, with players being marked on their total score, average score, and percentile ranking amongst the day’s total players. “EthnoGuessr” has attracted jokes online that describe the game as “advanced racism” due to its reliance on racial and ethnic profiling.
History
On March 28th, 2025, X account @LiminalRev announced the release of “EthnoGuessr” in late March 2025, writing, “Using data from humanphenotypes.net, given the facial average of an ethnic group, can you guess where they are from?” The post gathered over 5,000 likes in five months.
According to an April 2nd, 2025, article on the Substack publication Aporia Magazine, the game “EthnoGuessr” was created by developer “Liminal Revolutions” and launched in late March 2025.
EthnoGuesser uses facial composites and geographic metadata from humanphenotypes.net, spanning 38 ethnic groups and over 200 subgroups, into a geographic guessing game format. The developer claims to have received over 100,000 page visits within a day of launching the game.
Spread
On March 28th, 2025, Redditor /u/JK33Y reposted the game to the official PayMoneyWubby subreddit /r/PayMoneyWubby, gathering over 80 upvotes in five months.
On March 29th, RPG Codex user “Dark Souls II” reposted the game in a General Gaming thread, calling it a “Fun game where you can practice your racism.”
YouTuber DruuuWu posted a video titled, “I Found a Game That Could Get Me Banned… Ethnoguessr Geography Game,” on April 5th, 2025, gathering over 105,000 views in five months.
On May 28th, X user @mattbramanti posted an image of “RFH” and Richard Hanania, joking, “ethnoguesser is getting harder all the time,” gathering nearly 2,000 likes in three months.
On August 11th, X user @JanPogman2 tweeted, “Ethno guesser is funny cause it’ll show you a picture of a white person and then go “erm, actually that’s a western Aryanic tibetoid (extinct 5 thousand years ago)” and expect you to take it seriously.” The post gathered over 2,000 likes in two days.
Also on August 11th, Instagram user @fadi2hotty posted a parody of the “EthnoGuessr” that gathered over 400,000 plays and 24,000 likes in two days.