I've been playing daily for about two months now, my go-to starting country being Cyprus. My siblings and mom and I all have our preferred starting country which has given us general knowledge as to how far X is away from that particular country and has benefited us well. And has turned the competition fierce... three of us scored a 2 today, the other scored a 3. Eventually we agreed that sometime in the summer we would start a new "season" of the game where the starting country was picked for you, either randomly or e.g. using the previous day's answer.

What about making this a game mode, where the auto-guessed country is the same for everyone playing?