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There went my life. It was nice knowing you.

I now must curse Russia, Brazil, and Indonesia for screwing up my score!

― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Thursday, 20 July 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

oh
hell
yes

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

if ever a thread deserved a bump, this is the one. SO SO FUN. post scores?

I got a 5115 this last time, but have no idea how good or bad that is.

we should have an ILX league.

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 21 July 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

score - 5147
rounds - 10
timeouts - 0
avg points - 514.7
avg kms off - 408.0
avg time - 3.0

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 21 July 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

5190
10
0
519
363.1
3.0

every round so far I've had one place a bloody mile off, very addictive

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 21 July 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

wohoo - very next round:
5302
10
0
530.2
293
3.9

that extra second = a near timeout on Kinshasa, I still cocked up Minsk on that one though

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 21 July 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

and again:
5430
10
0
543
396.4 (don't get that - furthest away)
2.4 (maybe that's why??)

horribly addicted

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 21 July 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

my best score (by a healthy margin) is 5693/663. at least i've only gotten the wrong continent once.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 July 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

I've been playing this for an hour now. Scores 3000-5000, one wrong continent (French Guyana).

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Friday, 21 July 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

that was mine too

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 July 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

just did Europe only and got a whopping great 7054, must....get....sleep

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

5915

― -- (688), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

Oh DEAR. I thought I'd be good at this but averaged only about 4000 after half a dozen goes :(

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

6390

really though, sleep, but too hot, play more, no sleep...

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

8399 for europe, ave 62km out

― -- (688), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

ok, have to retire now, can't do more
6877
10
0
687.7
109.7
1.9

on world

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

omg i suck for europe (3245, 338.9 kms off). i mean seriously i haven't even ever heard of Perm, Russia.

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

9088 for europe, ave 42km out

― -- (688), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Russian towns you've never heard of are the worst thing you can get.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

this rocks. i'm consistently hitting around 4000, haven't hit 5000 yet.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

US: 10269, avg 115.2 kms off

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

usa pt 2: 12,820 pts, 80.3 kms off

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

10276 on the advanced map, despite fucking up no noviborsk

― -- (688), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

14003 on the usa one

― -- (688), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

okay last one for usa: 13416. 87 kms off. i got a buncha easy ones (Seattle? Spokane?) and then fucking Warren, PA or whatever.

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

usa: 14001

now i gotta stop or i'll play this for hours

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 21 July 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

USA - 1780

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 22 July 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

i can't beat 14k on USA :(

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 22 July 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

16301 for USA

i need to try this with a mouse, instead of stupid trackpad.

― -- (688), Saturday, 22 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

16777 for usa, 42k ave out. ok i need to go do something else

― -- (688), Saturday, 22 July 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

i'm getting in the 13ks, but last time only 36k out. i'm taking too long then?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 22 July 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

oh, maybe i was reading it wrong. anyway, now i got 15573/31.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 22 July 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

USA - 1876

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 22 July 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

i played an advanced game where i guessed 2 at 0 kms out. i still got only in the 7000s.

xpost - if you're missing a 0, i curse you

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 22 July 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

someone should make a version of this game for NYC/London, but with commercial establishments/cultural institutions/landmarks/etc, and Manhattan/Central London vs. 5-boroughs/greater london modes

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 22 July 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

also on the advanced game they wanted me to find "Kenai, Hawaii." what next, "Tokyo, Oklahoma"?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 22 July 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

with some caffeine in me, on my 20th game in a row, I hit...

19258/12.3

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 22 July 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

wow. nice one.

― jergins (jergins), Saturday, 22 July 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

fuck Brazil and Russia! also, fuck trying to play with opponents who leave you hanging on calcutta and message you to say "are you a guy?" and then quit the game. AAAAARRRRGH!!!!! Also, I was neck and neck with this one opponent, and he/she just quit for no reason! I was very shocked when I got Minsk, Belarus on the money.

― emilys. (emilys.), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a backwater, non-traveling American and am predictably pretty mediocre at this game.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

australia, why don't i know you better? your shape, perhaps, could be better suited for memorization. brazil, you too. africa, do you really need so many similar sized and shaped countries? philippines, i'm pretty sure i've located a better spot for manila.

and to the people who made the map - oakland is not in the middle of the sf bay. IT IS EXACTLY WHERE I CLICKED!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

australia is easy. everything's on a coast. perth is on the west, adelaide the southeast, etc. and you can disregard most of brazil due to amazonification.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

i know this - but the coasts are long! to my credit i did nail brasilia.

amazonification? you make it sound so dirty - just a jungle doin its thing man.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

4520
579.8kms off
3.6s

3931
929.6kms off
4s

3416
916.4kms offf
5.4s

getting worse each time!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

ok my best score by far

5620
avg km off 236.3
ave time 3.8

and it woulda been even better had i not brain farted and put marseilles in spain.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

oh yes, I always mix up France & Spain just from not bothering to look at what I'm doing. I did that with Russia & China once, too. And Japan & Philippines.

― emilys. (emilys.), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

Russia and Brazil are total murder!

― molly d (mollyd), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

I get America and France mixed up, sometimes

― -- (688), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Scramble mode is pretty ridiculous. I am in love with it.

― molly d (mollyd), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

4997, avg points 499.7, avg km off 508, avg time 2.6 secs

― emilys. (emilys.), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

(world)

― emilys. (emilys.), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

5511, avg points 551.1, avg km off 284, avg time 3.5 secs

― emilys. (emilys.), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Best score so far: 5327, with avg. 406 km off at 3.1 sec.

Central America messes with me.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Russia and Brazil are total murder!

Russia is worst. With Brazil, you can at least assume it's coastal.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

My knowledge of Africa is a crying shame, too, though.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yay 11949 on Scrambled Europe! (After about twenty tries, though)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

I am absolutely embarrassing on the Advanced World scramble.

― molly d (mollyd), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:47 (nineteen years ago)

i suck at this

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 27 July 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

On Africa I usually just put it in the middle and pray.

Russia is huge and annoying.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 27 July 2006 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

Playing non-Advanced World, have FINALLY cracked the 7,000 point barrier! (Just barely - 7006) I say Brazil is worse than Russia, if only because there seem to be more cities that they expect you to keep track of. Russia has maybe seven cities, each in a very different location.

Also irksome in terms of shaving off a few points here and there: the Canadian plains provinces - you can clean up okay just clicking in the general area and crossing your fingers, but precision is hard to get when there's just a big empty space and no reference points to keep track of where Regina is vis-a-vis Edmonton.

I've also begun constructing geographical facts and mnemonic devices, many of them based on complete fabrications. For example: Christchurch is in the middle of New Zealand, mirroring the fact that in New Zealand, the Christian church is the center of all public life. In a related vein, Emilys contributed the observation that Mannheim is in the lower half of Germany, just as the band Mannheim Steamroller appeals to the lowbrow listener. Et cetera...

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and here's a fun and educational study aid which also indirectly points out how incomplete the coverage of non-advanced GeoSense is... http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

"No, that's Tajikistan."

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

I've also begun constructing geographical facts and mnemonic devices, many of them based on complete fabrications.

The very best way! I happen to remember the painter Botticelli's years of birth and death through a short Gilliam-type mental animation involving a joint, a Morse key and Venus's foot.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/

Haha the Caribbean game is totally deadly to any confidence in one's own geographical omniscience!

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the Caribbean is brutal! After many trial and error sessions, though, I feel way better about Africa, and I finally have all my -stans down!

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

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