Mapfold hides the same place for everyone each day. You hunt it by choosing which question to ask and then tapping countries - and the game answers every miss by folding away everything that question ruled out, until only one country makes sense.

1. One hidden country. Every day Mapfold hides one country. You win the moment you tap it on the chart.
2. Pick your angle, then guess. Three face-down cards open every round - easy, medium and hard - each printing how much of the standing board its question folds. Flip one, read the question, tap a country and submit. Countries too small to tap - Malta, Nauru, Tuvalu - can be picked by name from the still-standing list instead: that selects the country and flies the map to it.
3. Misses fold the map. A wrong guess crosses that country off, folds away everything the question ruled out, and deals the next three cards.
4. Never tap a country a question ruled out. That does not cost a guess - it ends the day immediately. A miss only survives if the country was still consistent with everything revealed so far.
5. The map shrinks. Hemisphere and latitude questions shade dead zones right on the chart. Population, coastline, and size questions wash out every country they rule out.
6. Win before the final approach. Fewer guesses is better - the count IS the score. When only two countries remain, one wrong guess loses the day.
7. Watch the standing counter. The header counts every country the folds still allow. A card promising 50% is promising to halve that number.

No points, no multipliers - the number of guesses it took IS the result. Find the country in one and that's a perfect day; every extra tap adds one to your count. Water taps don't count as guesses - only submitted countries do.

• Read the percentages before you flip. The three cards are a trade: the hard one folds the most of the board but asks the most obscure fact.
• Guess to learn, not just to win. An early tap in a plausible spot buys you the next card.
• Let the folds do the work. After a hemisphere question, half the map is dead - a tap inside it does not cost a guess, it loses the day.
• Watch the standing counter. It tells you exactly how many countries survive the folds - if it reads twelve, your shortlist should too.
• Cross-reference questions in pairs. 'North of 45 degrees' plus 'touches the sea' plus 'under 100,000 square kilometers' is usually a three-country shortlist.
• Big countries are cheap probes early; small countries are precision picks late. Don't burn guess two on a microstate.
• The dead-zone edges are information. A cut at 45 degrees north that keeps the north half tells you the answer isn't Mediterranean - read the line, not just the shade.