MAPCADE

Guessing is the point.

Map games about a world nobody has memorised. Everyone in the room plays the same rounds, on their own phone, at the same time.

39 games Up to 100 players Free, no ads, no accounts

Get it onGoogle Play Coming soon to theApp Store
A Mapcade lobby: room code Z7FNX, a QR code, and nine players with monster avatars waiting to start.
Singapore cut by a heavy line into 30 percent and 70 percent of its population, with other players' lines fanned across it.
One room, one QR code, everyone on their own phone. Cut Singapore so that half its people fall on each side, and every guess in the room is revealed at once.

It is not a quiz.

Most geography games are a memory test with a map on it. Name the capital, name the flag. If you did not already know it you lose the point, and what you learn is that you did not know it.

Mapcade mostly asks you to estimate instead. Where the people are. How many Frances fit inside Australia. Which country is level with Rome. Nobody has sat down and memorised any of that, so nobody is flatly wrong, only close or far, and a guess that is well out still scores.

Some of what you get asked

Tanzania, filled with its flag, with a draggable line across it and a CUT button.
Split the people in halfThe middle of a country is rarely the middle of its population.
Ethiopia, filled with its flag, above a slider reading 325k and a LOCK button.
Guess the populationA slider, and no units to anchor you.
Malawi above four city names: Blantyre, Lilongwe, Mangochi, Mzuzu.
And some you can knowFour cities, one capital, answered against the clock.

Play with the room

Host a room, show the QR code or send the link, and everyone plays on their own phone. Same country, same question, same moment. The reveal drops everybody’s guess onto one map at once, which is when you find out whose line was worse than yours.

A room holds up to a hundred people, so this works for four on a sofa and for a lecture theatre that has stopped listening.

No accounts. No sign-up, no email, no password. Pick a name or keep the daft one you are given, take a monster, play.

Get it onGoogle Play Coming soon to theApp Store