MapTap, a daily geography game, is my new Wordle
Key takeaways
- As Wordle celebrates its fifth anniversary, we have to be honest with ourselves: Are we still having fun, thousands of Wordles later?
- Every day, Map Tap has five questions, each one presenting you with a city (or, occasionally, the site of a historic event or battle) to tap on the map.
- 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.
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, Map Tap, which is available both as an app and on the web.
Every day, Map Tap has five questions, each one presenting you with a city (or, occasionally, the site of a historic event or battle) to tap 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. (Personally, I think any score over 900 is pretty good, but some sickos are gunning for that perfect score.)