MapTap is a daily geography game played on a 3D globe you can spin with a finger. Each day brings five locations to find, and you tap where you think each one is, scoring higher the closer each tap lands. Every place comes with a short story from history, and those stories are a big part of the draw: players can save the ones they like, and a MapTap book collects the creator's favorite stories from 2026.
Picks are ranked by how much of that tap-the-spot routine they keep. First come games where you pin a set of places on a globe or blank map and score by distance. Next are ones that tie a location to a person, a stadium, an event or a headline, echoing MapTap's stories. Last come ones that change what you look at, from beers to satellite images.
You place five locations on a blank world map, one pin apiece, and afterward your distances are set against everyone else's. It is MapTap's five-target, nearer-is-better round on a flat map instead of a spinning globe.
Spins a globe and asks for five taps, like MapTap, but each target is a spot linked to a famous musician, athlete or actor, found by reading a brief hint about a place that mattered in that person's life.
Its main daily round is the same task: five places to tap on a globe. Side puzzles add a street-level drop you have to locate and a flag to identify along with where and when it flew.
Five landmarks, the Leshan Giant Buddha among them, each get exactly one pin on a globe you can rotate and zoom, and results go on a leaderboard everyone shares. It feels very close to MapTap's own spin-and-tap routine.
Each day's five countries are found by tapping their capitals on a globe you can turn. A tap within 50 km gets full marks, and reaching 300 out of 500 counts as passing, so it adds a clear goal to the familiar five taps.
Its globe is built from satellite imagery, and you place five locations on it, earning full marks inside 20 km. Later rounds are tougher and count up to three times as much, so a strong finish matters most toward the 1,000-point total.
A sports twist on the globe tap: five football, cricket or rugby grounds to pin on a globe with no labels, worth up to 1,000 points each, finishing with the venue of a legendary match.
Its questions cover racing circuits, football stadiums and well-known landmarks, answered by pinning each on a globe and scored on distance, in three sets of five, which makes for a longer session than MapTap's single set.
Leans into the history side of MapTap: each of three daily rounds names a past event, and you mark both where it took place on a 3D globe and when on a timeline.
Every target is a news story: read the headline, then put a pin where the event took place, so places arrive with context much as MapTap's stories give them.
Five beers, from Belgium to Japan and places between, each to be placed where it is brewed. Nearer pins score more, and you get a single go at the day's five, the same one-shot rhythm as a MapTap round.
Five satellite pictures daily, and each must be matched to its spot on a world map, scoring higher the closer you get. You read terrain instead of a place name, a harder kind of map tap.
You hunt seven places by choosing a hexagon on the map; zoom in for a smaller hex worth more, or out for a broader, safer one, with three guesses per place, which adds a risk decision to every pick.
Yes. The MapTap menu links to prior days, along with practice levels and a set of levels made by players. Daily rounds are numbered, and the game for November 4, 2026 was MapTap #866, so there is a long archive to work through once today's five are done.
The MapTap menu includes entries named Groups and Versus, plus a profile page and a MapTap+ upgrade. For a built-in comparison with everyone who played the same day, Pin Drop shows how your distances stack up against other players on the same five places, and TerraPoint keeps a leaderboard shared by all.
StarTap and WhenEre. StarTap ties each spot on its globe to part of a famous person's story, while WhenEre asks where a historical event happened and also when, using a timeline next to the globe. Headline does something similar with current events, since every pin belongs to a real news story.
