What's going on with Maprunner?

I actually thought it was a pretty good idea. There were definitely some levels where I had to use a combination of clues from the map and power-ups to get a good enough guess, which seemed like the whole point.

I think my overall opinion was that there was too much randomness, that really killed it. The choices / forks can be pretty badly imbalanced, rather than giving you good power-ups for solving a difficult map and weaker ones for solving an easier map.

That said, I was still enjoying it and advancing levels.

Then suddenly they replaced it with a version that unlocks one country at a time.

Now it's 10x worse.

First of all, it's too easy when there are only 4 possible countries for any given round. I don't see how it's possible to lose.

Second, it's horribly buggy. I have to reload the page all the time.

Third, it's not accounting for the fact that some countries have more coverage. The answer is far more likely to be in the country with the most coverage, which makes it easier than it could be.

Discussion thread for the daily challenge

Discussion thread for daily challenge