A US map game where you take the country
Most US map games ask you to name the states. In this one you take them: start anywhere in America and grow until the map is your colour.
Season 1 is live: 23 players hold land, 5 days left to take yours.
Play freeThe United States on the map
The US covers 799 tiles of the TapGuessr map. Six of them are the big prizes, worth 5 troops a minute each: Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.. Another 31 cities of a million or more pay 3 a minute. Everything else pays 1.
That shapes the game. The Northeast is the richest corridor on the continent (New York, Philadelphia and Washington within a few tiles of each other), so it's also where the fighting is. The West has fewer, bigger prizes far apart, and the middle of the country is cheap land to grow into.
Play freeRuling the United States
Hold more than half of a country's tiles and you rule it. For the US that means 400 tiles: a serious empire, and the biggest crown in North America after Canada.
How to play
- Plant your flag. Tap any free tile on Earth to start there. It's free, and you can't start right next to another player.
- Earn troops. You get 20 troops a minute, plus 1 for every tile you hold, 3 for a big city and 5 for a capital or megacity. They build up while you're away.
- Grow. Spend troops to claim free land up to three steps away (farther jumps cost more), or attack any tile right next to yours.
- Rule countries. Hold more than half of a country's tiles and you rule it. Your name goes on the rankings next to it.
- Win the season. Each season runs two weeks. Whoever holds the most land at the end wins, then the map resets and everyone starts again.
Want to learn the states instead?
If you're after a quiz that drills the 50 states and their capitals, Seterra is excellent for that. TapGuessr is a strategy game, but you'll know your Midwest a lot better after defending it.