US Geography Game

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I started it, but the first two were Utah and Tennessee...no way to place those without reference. It needs to make the states appear an a non-random order.

[BDC]

74%, 177 mile average mistake. But I don't know any really except the big ones, so I only got quite a good score later on because it was like a jig saw.

I got an A* at Geography at GCSE too. Useless subject.

[Louis VI the Fat]

92%, 17 miles average error.

After starting off with one of those rectangular states, which I missed by a few hundred miles, the rest were easy.

Nice quizzes, thanks for the link!

[ICantSpellDawg]

euro i got a 95% first try with andorra being my first error (because i didnt know that the arrow was where to drop it) 142 seconds - level 5

95% (because i dropped slovenia onto the grey are fisrt try) on level 8 - 248 seconds

91% asia level 5 - 124 seconds\

88% in US

[Togakure]

... I got an A* at Geography at GCSE too. Useless subject.

I've found what I learned in Physical Geography to be very, very useful in my backpacking explorations of deep wilderness areas. Understanding the basics of weather and clouds, phenomena like orographic lift, tidal patterns, soil, rock, tectonic activity etc. can be helpful if things get dicey. Combined with a course in Natural History, it makes for quite an enhanced outdoor experience, and a heightened level of personal safety in the face of a natural tantrum (minor mone, anyway ...).

[Efrem]

I got 66% Ave Error of 331 Miles and I did it in 579 seconds!!

[Byzantine Prince]

Oh man i know this is a rez but I love geog so there we go.

92% but it should be higher since I missed Alaska by accident. I let go of the mouse prematurily, lol. Not bad for a European.

I'll try the other continents, though im sure ill ace them.

[Big_John]

cool game. 49/50 (98%), avg err: 2 mi, 182 secs on my first try. time actually went up and the second try, with 98% again. but i got 50/50 on the third try at 172 secs.

it helps when you've lived all over the country. also, if you get a lot of coastal states at first, that helps a lot too.

[Byzantine Prince]

The maps are also somewhat inaccurate. Look at Sweden, lol.

South America 95% on level 8. I keep missing the target for central countries.

I know an even more chalenging game like this. I sometimes play it on Encarta Encyclopedia. It asks to locate cities as well countries. Can you imagine how hard that can get in Central Asian Republics?

[Big_John]

played these on lvl 8:
got 1060 on south america (easiest one by far, imo)
got 905 on europe
got 860 on asia
got 640 on afirca

thank god that's over with, never remind me of this webste again..