Mapster

Mapster gives you the name of one country each day and asks you to draw its outline from memory. There is no shape to look at and no multiple choice, just a blank canvas and whatever mental picture of the country you can summon. When you finish, your sketch is laid over the real borders and scored on how closely the two match.

What is Mapster?

Mapster is a daily geography game built around a single freehand challenge. Each day it names one country, for example France or Chile or Japan, and hands you an empty canvas. Your job is to reproduce that country's outline as accurately as you can from memory. There is one country per day, so everyone drawing on a given date is working from the same prompt. The whole loop takes a minute or two: read the name, picture the shape, draw it, and submit.

Mapster inverts the usual geography formula. In Worldle you see a country's silhouette and try to name it. Mapster runs that backwards. You already know the country, and the difficulty lives entirely in recreating its shape by hand. That freehand map-drawing mechanic, scored on how much of the true outline you cover, is unusual among the guess-the-country, guess-the-flag, and guess-the-silhouette games that make up most of the daily geography genre.

Mapster comes from Teuteuf, also known as Teuteuf Games, the studio behind Worldle, Flagle, WhereTaken, Statele, GeoGrid, and a broad lineup of other daily geography games. Teuteuf both develops and publishes it. The web version launched on September 30, 2025, and an Android app followed in March 2026. The base game is free to play in the browser and free on Android.

The feedback comes as an accuracy score after you submit. Your drawing is overlaid on the country's actual shape, and the game rewards you for covering more of the real area while penalizing lines that stray outside the borders. Straying outside costs less than leaving parts of the country uncovered, so it pays to be generous rather than timid with your strokes. A near-perfect match can score up to 1,000 points. It feels less like a quiz and more like a small daily test of how well you actually know the world's shapes.

How to play Mapster

1. Open Mapster at mapster.teuteuf.fr in your browser.
2. Read the name of the country you have been given for the day.
3. Picture its outline and draw that shape freehand on the blank canvas.
4. Try to cover as much of the country's real area as you can while keeping your lines close to the borders.
5. Submit your drawing to have it overlaid on the true map and scored.
6. Come back the next day for a new country and canvas.

Tips and strategy

• Cover the whole country rather than drawing a small tidy shape. Leaving area uncovered costs more than spilling slightly past the borders.
• Since overshooting is penalized less than undershooting, err on the generous side when you are unsure where a coastline sits.
• Anchor your drawing with the country's most recognizable feature first, such as a long coastline, a peninsula, or a sharp corner, then fill in the rest around it.
• Get the overall proportions right before worrying about detail. A roughly correct size and orientation earns more coverage than fussy edges.
• Recall neighboring countries or coastlines to place borders. Knowing what a country sits next to helps you judge which side is straight and which is jagged.
• Do not overthink small inlets and islands. Broad, confident strokes that match the main landmass tend to score better than hesitant precise ones.

Good to know

Category

Geography

Resets

Daily, at local midnight

Cost

Free in browser and on Android

Guesses

One country to draw per day

Feedback

Accuracy score up to 1,000 points

Creator

Teuteuf (Teuteuf Games)

Launched

Web on September 30, 2025

Platform

Browser and Android

Mapster FAQ

Is Mapster free?

Yes. The base game is free to play in the browser and free on Android.

How do you play Mapster?

Each day the game names one country and gives you a blank canvas. You draw that country's outline from memory, then submit it. Your sketch is overlaid on the real borders and scored on how much of the true area you covered versus how much fell outside.

When does Mapster reset?

A new country appears every day at midnight in your local time zone, and the site updates automatically.

Is Mapster like Wordle?

It shares the once-a-day, one-puzzle-for-everyone format, but it flips the usual geography version. Instead of guessing a country from its shape like Worldle, you are told the country and have to draw its outline yourself.

Who made Mapster?

Teuteuf, also known as Teuteuf Games, the studio behind Worldle, Flagle, WhereTaken, Statele, and other daily geography games. Teuteuf both develops and publishes it.