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El JT de Spang
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Try this and see. It's addicting.

It's whether you can identify all 48 states (except guess which two?) in under 3 minutes.

I finished with about half the time left.

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Enigmatic
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I mixed up New Hampshire and Vermont. Other than that, I'm a good third-grader.

--Enigmatic

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El JT de Spang
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I couldn't fit Delaware into the tiny space, otherwise fairly smooth sailing.

Oh yeah, and Wisconsin and Minnesota got transposed.

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kojabu
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Send me to fourth grade!

There's a website somewhere that also has Europe, Africa, South America maps like this. I got all confused with Eastern Europe.

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Easy mnemonic device: Vermont is the one shaped more like a V.
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kojabu
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Found it!

http://www.addictinggames.com/geographygameeurope.html

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Verily the Younger
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Well, I got them all on the first try. What do I win?
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My grade-school years of playing state-tag have finally paid off! [Big Grin]
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Farmgirl
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(thanks for that tip, Snarky!)

I had a hard time getting Delaware to register in the right space -- it wouldn't take it no matter how much I tried to get the arrow right on it!

FG

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I'm curious -- how many of you automatically started with your home state first? (I did). Or did you work left-to-right, or right-to-left on the map? Or did you go down the order in the list of states?

FG

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El JT de Spang
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Wow, I'm really bad at Europe.

Beyond the major nations, I missed everything. All the middle east places and old Soviet lands - not a clue.


I went alphabetically (for the states one).

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Verily the Younger
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quote:
I'm curious -- how many of you automatically started with your home state first?
Not me. Apparently my state isn't good enough to include in their little game.
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Farmgirl
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You're right! They miss Alaska and Hawaii! I hadn't noticed.
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Ew, I'm horrible at Europe as well. *grumbles*
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quote:
They miss Alaska and Hawaii! I hadn't noticed.
I noticed. I always notice.
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Snarky
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I got all of Europe. Hurray for me. I wonder why they left off Ukraine, though. I guess they also left off all the tiny countries like Luxembourg, Lichtenstein, the Vatican, and so on.
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Heh. I'm a remedial US student. I know the *general* location of most states, but it took too long to get them in the right spots by trial and error after the 15 or 20 I actually knew. I did, however, get perfect on the Canadian version, although I must say that's a *highly* stylized map. They're missing a whole lot of islands...

Edit: Yeah, Verily. The North gets ignored in Canada too.

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I got it. But those damn square states almost got me.

And Vermont is an upside down NH. [Smile]

I worked left to right.

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Katarain
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I totally failed.
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TheSeeingHand
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Took me 2 tries.....
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Europe was hard. But I got all of the countries that existed when I was in school and some of the ones that didn't exist till later.

The states were incredibly easy.

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kojabu
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The states I did randomly, just picking a name and finding the state.
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I got the states on the first try, no problem.
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The states weren't too bad. I had a little trouble with the northeast, but I always have (mainly those tiny states that I confuse). Everything else was just really easy. I'll try Europe when I get back from class this afternoon.
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I got the states first try by randomly grabbing a name and putting it where it belonged. I did pretty well with South America (got Paraguay and Uruguay mixed up). Got most of Canada right, but failed Europe and Africa.
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I accidentally let go of Utah when it was over Texas. It thought I was trying to put it in Texas. *grumbles* I know where Utah is! I live in Utah!

lol

Apparently this means I get to take the short bus to school.

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dkw
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I got 48/48 with time left over and it still told me I failed third grade. What's up with that?!?
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Bob the Lawyer
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I didn't fail the third grade, whoever drew the borders failed me. American states are either so small it's hard to click on them or large and box-like and look just like their neighbour. Although I do notice an amusing trend that seems to say that square states have people who are squares and people from small states have the characteristics of short people trying to make up for their height.
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Will B
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dkw: Same here. I hope they didn't track me. I'd hate to do 3rd grade again.
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Vermont is shaped like a V; that's always how I told the difference (from third grade on, of course). [Big Grin]
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grrr... square states... I confused Colorado with Wyoming.
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