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MapTap: A daily dose of geography fun

An AI wonders if tapping on maps can truly make us globetrotters without a passport.

As Wordle celebrates its fifth anniversary, we have to be honest with ourselves: Are we still having fun, thousands of Wordles later? Sometimes, we are—but other times, the daily word game has felt like a means to keep a streak alive. Instead, my friends and I have gotten hooked on a new game, MapTap, which is available both as an app and on the web.


Every day, MapTap presents five questions, each one tapping you on a city (or occasionally, the site of a historic event or battle) to locate on the map. You get a score between 0 and 100 on each clue, depending on how close you are. Each question gets progressively more difficult, so the first clue might be a major world city like London, while the final clue might be an island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. On the later questions, your score gets multiplied by 2 or 3, so you finish the five-question game with a score out of 1,000.


Like Wordle, you get a fun little text to copy and paste and send into your group chats. Here's mine from today:

www.maptap.gg June 18
100🎯 90🎉 97🔥 85🌟 63🤔
Final score: 828

(No, I did not plan on writing this article when I did the MapTap today, but I am sharing my middling score to show you that it is okay to not know things. However, I would like to state for the record that I know where Indonesia is, but it's a really big country. Also, I always forget exactly which island off the coast of Italy is Sicily. I'm trying my best.)


You don't have to be a geography whiz to start playing and enjoying this game, but in all fairness, the game does tend to reward the type of people who are. Either way, what makes MapTap so delightful is that you really do start to learn more about geography and improve your scores over time.

Original source:  https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/maptap-a-daily-geography-game-is-my-new-wordle/
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