Doodle World is RivalPit's hand-drawn take on the geography-guessing genre made popular by games like GeoGuessr -- except every scene you're shown to identify is an original hand-drawn illustration made for the site, not a street-view photo. You study a scene each round and try to place a pin on the Doodle World map at the spot you think it's depicting.
Because the scenes are custom-drawn rather than photographic, the skill involved is a little different too -- you're reading hand-drawn visual cues (landmarks, terrain style, small details in the illustration) rather than photo-realistic signage or license plates, which makes it more about attentive observation and pattern recognition across rounds than the trivia-heavy meta some geography games reward.
Don't rush your first guess of a round -- take a moment to scan the whole scene for a landmark or terrain detail before placing your pin, since a hasty first impression is usually less accurate than one built on a couple of specific visual cues. Keep a mental note of recurring illustration styles or regions you've seen in past rounds; Doodle World reuses a consistent hand-drawn visual language, so pattern recognition across multiple plays genuinely improves your accuracy over time.
They're entirely hand-drawn, original illustrations made for RivalPit -- not street-view photography -- so you're reading drawn visual cues like terrain style and illustrated landmarks rather than photographic details.
Each game is 5 rounds. You study a scene and place a pin each round, and your final score is the total across all 5, which you can then compare against your own best total from previous games.
Your score each round is based on how close your placed pin is to the scene's actual location on the map -- a closer guess scores higher, and those per-round scores add up to your total for the game.