I think hide and seek would be a great way to learn the map. I believe there should be steps to make this more do-able first though, such as the ability to hide your character/name. i can see that being a little disappointing for me at least, since our characters' silhouette figure shows up behind trees and our names * out like sore thumbs even when we have character sightings turned off.
Aside, i think i have to say one thing. please balance the game before anything else ;-; i know we can do better with this game, and koty is on the right track with hide and seek, but we should be having fun with what we have right now and to think we need hide and seek to make it fun just shows how lacking it is. with all that said and done though, i still approve of hide and seek. +1