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Friday, July 3, 2026

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Puzzle #42 · July 3, 2026

Clue 1It is in Africa.

Friday MapDash puzzles run at the harder end of the weekly difficulty curve. Puzzle #42 from Friday, July 3, 2026 reflects that calibration — small countries, country shapes that produce non-intuitive centroid distances, and targets from regions with lower world-geography name recognition.

Early-month MapDash puzzles are useful anchors for starting a daily streak. Puzzle #42 fits in the continuous numbering, and the first week of a month makes a natural restart point.

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