Cartographer's Apprentice

Not a quiz. A deduction game. You apprentice to a master mapmaker. Clients bring fragments of the world: a torn chart of a coastline, a sign in a language they could not read, the length of a shadow at noon, the width between the rails, a coin, a flag they are fairly sure they remember. You take the fragments to the atlas and find the one place on earth they all fit.

A real atlas. 150 lands with coasts, borders, languages, scripts, railway gauges, currencies, rules of the road, flags and native wildlife, in layers you add to your reference shelf as your career grows. Tap a clue to shade every land it allows and watch the world narrow to one.

A career. Five ranks from Apprentice to Master Cartographer. Commissions pay coins; coins buy reference layers and workshop tools. Forty prestige commissions are contested by three rival workshops. Plot each expedition through the right neighbour, under budget.

You will know the map. Returning clients quietly bring back the places you have identified before, on a spaced schedule, until you know them cold. Finish the career and you know countries, capitals, languages, flags and coasts for real, from evidence, not flash cards.

• Flags, capitals, countries, geography: learned by deduction.
• No ads. No timers. No accounts. Fully offline.
• Portrait, one-handed, large text and high contrast options.
• The whole world from the first commission: every continent, five ranks, forty prestige commissions.