Mapfold hides the same place for everyone each day. You hunt it by tapping countries - and the game answers every miss by halving the world, on the chart or in your head, 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. Read the question, then guess. Question 1 is free: a fact that roughly halves where the answer can be - hemisphere, population, coastline, size. Tap a country and submit.
3. Misses fold the map. A wrong guess crosses that country off, folds away everything the question ruled out, and reveals the next question.
4. 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.
5. 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.

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.

• Guess to learn, not just to win. An early tap in a plausible spot buys you a question that halves the world.
• Let the folds do the work. After a hemisphere question, half the map is dead - never spend a guess inside it.
• 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.