Türkiye Map Quiz

Türkiye Map Quiz is a free geography game where you find the 81 provinces of Turkey on a map. The map is already on screen when the game opens, with a one-line question on top: "Find: Kırşehir". You tap, the province lights up turquoise or red, and the next question follows straight away. At the end of a round the map becomes a report card: the provinces you found stay turquoise, the ones you missed stay gold.

This guide explains the basic rule, the six modes (Provinces, Licence Plates, Regions, Neighbours, Learn and Map of the Day), how points are counted, the magnifier that makes small provinces easy to hit on a phone, and the 81-card album. At the end you will find a few ways to learn the provinces faster.

The goal is to find the province you are asked for as quickly as possible and with as few mistakes as possible. Every mode uses the same loop:

1. A question appears on top: a province name, a plate code, or a province highlighted on the map.
2. You tap the province on the map (in Regions you tap a region button, and when typing a plate you use the number keys).
3. Right: the province fills in and points fly up. Wrong: the province you tapped flashes red and its name appears: "That's Nevşehir".
4. You have 3 tries per question. After the third miss the right province flashes gold, no points are given and it is marked as missed.

You cannot lose: a round always runs to the end. Time only affects your score; the game never ends because the clock runs out. Province names are not written on the map, because this is a quiz; when the round is over, Show names reveals them all so you can study the map like a report card.

In Licence Plates, if you type a wrong plate the game tells you which province it belongs to, so even a wrong answer teaches you something. In Regions every province you get right is painted in its region's colour, and by the end of the round the map has become a 7-colour map of the regions. In Neighbours, tapping a province that is not a neighbour counts as a mistake; after 3 mistakes the remaining neighbours are shown.

In Provinces, Licence Plates and Regions each question is scored like this:

• First try: 100 points plus a speed bonus. Find it within 3 seconds for +50; after that the bonus shrinks and reaches zero at 10 seconds.
• Second try: 50 points.
• Third try: 25 points.
• Missed: 0 points.

The highest possible score in a full round of 81 provinces is 81 × 150 = 12,150. In Neighbours each neighbour you find is worth 20 points, and finding all neighbours of a province without a single mistake adds 40 more.

The results screen shows your score, accuracy (the share of provinces found on the first try), your time and the provinces you missed. Full rounds and the Neighbours round go to the leaderboard, and the Map of the Day has its own board. Quick rounds, region rounds and Learn mode do not go to the leaderboard; they are kept as your best score on your device. That way the leaderboard only compares rounds where everyone answered the same set of questions.

You can zoom with two fingers or the mouse wheel and move the map by dragging. The +, - and Fit map buttons in the corner do the same, and on a keyboard +, - and 0 work too.

On a phone, small provinces such as Yalova, Kilis, Bartın, Düzce or Kırıkkale can be smaller than your fingertip. So if several provinces lie around the point you tapped and one of them is very small on screen, the answer is not taken right away: a round magnifier opens above your finger and asks "Which one? Tap it". With large provinces it never appears. If you turn your phone sideways the map gets bigger; the game reminds you of this in the first questions.

You can also play with a keyboard: digits 0-9, Backspace and Enter when typing a plate, and keys 1-7 to pick the regions in order in Regions mode.

Learn mode is for first-timers: there is no timer and no score. Press and hold a spot on the map to see the name of that province. If you get stuck, Hint helps in two steps: the first hint lights up the province's region, the second zooms the map to the province and makes it blink. Each Learn session gives you 3 free hints; when they run out you can choose to watch a short ad for 3 more. Scored modes have no hints, to keep the leaderboard fair.

The first time you find a province, its culture card unlocks. The card shows the province's outline, plate code, region, neighbours, a well-known food or product and a sight worth seeing, such as Kütahya tiles or Hattusa. Cards are collected in the Card Album ("34 / 81 cards unlocked"). In scored rounds cards never interrupt play and arrive as "New cards" at the end; in Learn mode they open right after each correct answer.

The Map of the Day changes every day at midnight Turkey time, and everyone gets the same 10 provinces that day. The list always includes at least one province from each region and at least one small province. The rules are the same as in Provinces; the top score is 1,500.

Your score for the day comes from your first game. You can play again afterwards, but your leaderboard score does not change. When you finish, you see how many mistakes the day's players made. It also works well for a whole class solving the same 10 provinces and comparing results.

The game was also designed as a classroom tool. The 20-province quick round and region rounds give short exercises that fit into one lesson, such as only the Aegean provinces or only the Black Sea provinces. Regions mode practises the 7 regions, and Neighbours mode practises reading the map. Every mode can be played without logging in, and the map stays large and readable on a projector. Regions follow the common province-region list used in Turkish school books.