How GeoCricket works
The basics
- Six new cricket questions everyday. Questions will be for — Tests Cricket, ODIs, T20s, IPL and World Cups.
- For each cricket question, tap the spot on the map where you believe it happened.
- The nearer your tap lands to the true spot, the bigger your score.
- Fresh questions arrive daily at midnight UTC.
- Everyone plays the same six questions on the same day, so totals are directly comparable.
How to play
- 1 Question = 1 Ball.
- 6 Questions = 6 Balls = 1 Over.
- How your runs are scored
- How far your tap lands from the true spot decides your runs:
- ≤100 km — 6 runs
- ≤400 km — 4 runs
- ≤800 km — 3 runs
- ≤1,600 km — 2 runs
- ≤3,200 km — 1 run
- Beyond 3,200 km — 0 runs. But you keep playing next questions.
- Calculated distances are straight-line approximate values, rounded to the nearest kilometre.
- Counting your over
- Only runs are counted. There are no outs.
- Balls/Questions 1–2 easy, 3–4 medium, 5–6 hard.
- The max you can score is: six sixes in six balls = 36 runs — the perfect over.
- Bonus, sharing and streak
- Once you complete all questions, you get a bonus 10x multiplier.
- Your runs x 10 = Final score. You can share your score card with your friends and challenge them.
- Play daily to maintain your streak.
Colours and dots
- The dot colour shows what that ball scored.
- Green - 6 runs
- Purple - 4 runs
- Yellow - 3 runs
- Orange - 2 runs
- Blue - 1 run
- Grey - No runs
Streaks
- Your streak tracks consecutive 7 days played.
- Miss a day and it drops back to zero.
- Replaying older days for fun leaves your streak untouched — only today's round moves it.
The leaderboard
- You see the day's top 50 totals.
- Your own row stays pinned at the top even when you sit outside the top 50.
- Your display name comes from your email — the part before @, cut to seven characters.
- When two players would share a name, the second gets a number on the end (for example frank, frank2).
- Flick through the previous 14 days with the arrows on the leaderboard page.
Your stats page
- Open /me for a 7-day chart of your daily totals.
- Each bar takes the colour of that day's performance — the same tier ladder as single taps, scaled to the 1,000-point daily ceiling.
Tips
- Pinch to zoom and drag to pan around the map.
- A single tap locks in your guess — there is no submit button.
- Changed your mind mid-tap? Drag a little before lifting your finger — tiny slides count as a pan, not a guess.
- Refresh halfway through if you must — your round is saved.
Inspiration
- GeoCricket is heavily inspired by MapTap (https://maptap.gg), a daily geography game we love. Go play it too.
