Who remembers that halcyon week in October 2023, when Londoners put their world on pause to play the dangerously addictive Metro Memory?
The creators of that skull-scratching game are now back with another — Scrambled Maps — in which the player is presented with a slide puzzle of a portion of a city map, which you must reassemble in the correct order. The pressure is heaped on thanks to a ticking clock and the increasing trickiness of each map.
It's the perfect challenge for anyone who claims to know somewhere like the back of their hand, and joyfully, you can even create your own Scrambled Maps over on TripGeo (a neat way to get to know parts of London you're not so au fait with, we reckon).
Before you do that though, the game's creators have put together a special Londonist challenge: three Thames maps (easy, moderate and hard) plus a special puzzle featuring Claes Jansz Visscher's engraving of London in 1616 — which no one will know like the back of their hand unless they're over 400 years old.
There's also a scrambled 1908 Underground map:
Happy unscrambling!
