Map Grab

How to play

• Map Grab is a game about who knows the world best. A target appears on the big screen, and everyone drops a pin on the map on their own phone and taps "Confirm."
• You have 60 seconds to answer, and you can move your pin until time's up.
• Once everyone has answered, the pins land on the map from farthest to closest, and everyone sees how many kilometers off they were.
• A full game is 4 acts of 4 rounds (about 18 minutes). In the lobby you can pick a short game instead: 2 acts, Landmarks and Country (about 9 minutes). Each act opens with a quick demo of how it works.

Acts

• Landmarks. Where's the Eiffel Tower? What about Machu Picchu? The map shows country names, and cities appear as you zoom in.
• Country on a blank map. No labels, just borders. Sometimes you get only a flag instead of a name: figure out the country first, then find it.
• Where were they born? A famous person appears on screen. Drop your pin on the city where they were born.
• Compass. No map at all. You're standing in one place and have to point to another, giving the direction and distance: city to city, country to country, or a mix. Distances are measured the shortest way, as the crow flies.

The Zone

• The last round of each map act is the Zone. Instead of a pin, you draw a circle.
• If the target is inside your circle, you score, and the smaller the circle, the more you get: up to 2000.
• If the target is outside, you get zero. Pick your risks wisely.

Scoring

• Pin: the closer you are, the more you score, up to 1000 for a direct hit. You get about 800 at 300 km and about 370 at 1500 km.
• Country: a pin inside the borders scores 1000 outright. Landing close to the border still scores, just less.
• Compass: up to 500 for direction and up to 500 for distance.
• The closest player in a round gets an extra +200.
• Near miss: everyone else within 300 km of the target gets +100.
• The Zone and Compass rounds have no bonuses: only the answer itself scores.
• After every round, a scoreboard shows who overtook whom.

Territory

• Whoever hits the target claims it in their color: a landmark or city plus everything within 100 km, or a whole country. In the Zone, a hit means your circle covered the target.
• If several players hit, the area is split between them based on where their pins landed. If nobody hits, it goes to the closest player.
• In the finale, the camera flies over each player's territory in turn, from smallest to largest. Every whole area is worth +150, and every half +75.
• The player with the largest territory becomes the Empire 👑.

Tips

• Don't rush the Zone. A big circle almost guarantees points but not many of them, and a small one is the opposite.
• In the Compass round, direction and distance are scored separately, so even if you're unsure of the distance, nailing the direction is already half the points.
• Pinch to zoom: on small countries and islands, a few millimeters on screen can be hundreds of kilometers.

Winning

• The player with the most points across all rounds, including the Territory bonus, wins.