Cartographer's Lie

A daily deduction puzzle

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

One island. Forty-eight hexes. A handful of clues, and exactly one of them is lying. Every day brings a new map and a new deduction. Read the clues, rule out what cannot be true, and find the single hex that fits. No guessing, no luck, no coin flips. THE SETTER CAN DECEIVE. THE SETTER CANNOT CHEAT. Puzzles are built to mislead you, and a red herring is a legitimate weapon. But before a single one reaches you, a fairness gate proves that exactly one hex satisfies every clue and that you can reach it by elimination alone. Misdirection is fair. Ambiguity is not. A clue that eliminates nothing is banned outright. FOUR TIERS, EVERY DAY Casual, Standard, Hard and Fiendish. Four fresh puzzles daily, each with a measured difficulty rating. Start where you are comfortable and climb. TAKE NOTES YOUR WAY Tap to mark hexes, long-press for colour tags, highlight the map by individual clue. Or switch to Pure mode and hold the whole thing in your head. THREE GUESSES Each one costs you more than the last. Solve it clean, or do not solve it at all. SET YOUR OWN PUZZLES Build them in the composer with live candidate counts, a difficulty projection and Preview-as-Solver. You have to prove you can solve it before anyone else sees it. STREAKS AND STATS Daily streaks with freezes for the days life gets in the way, a spoiler-free grid for sharing your solve, and a skill rating that tracks how you are actually doing rather than how you feel you are doing. Play offline any time. Sign in with Apple to sync your history and play ranked. CARTOGRAPHER'S GUILD SUBSCRIPTION Cartographer's Guild is an optional auto-renewable subscription. • 1 month — $3.99 per month • 1 year — $29.99 per year Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://wisejester-sudo.github.io/cartographers-lie/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://wisejester-sudo.github.io/cartographers-lie/privacy.html

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A REMINDER WHEN THE NEXT CHART IS DRAWN Turn it on and tomorrow's chart comes looking for you: one quiet reminder each morning, and if you're on a streak it says so, because a streak is a thing worth not breaking. Off until you ask for it, and never more than once a day. Also fixed: the clock no longer counts a rejected correction's penalty twice, so your solve time reads true instead of running high.

The developer, Kevin Marsh, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

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Seller
  • Kevin Marsh
Size
  • 41.5 MB
Category
  • Puzzle
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
  • English and Spanish
Age Rating
13+
  • 13+
  • Frequent
    Contests

    Contains
    User-Generated Content
In-App Purchases
Yes
Copyright
  • © 2026 Kevin Marsh