# A fun geography game
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [February 16, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899 "2008-02-16T18:24:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/21 "2008-02-17T23:26:41Z")
584,033. Level 12 was a killer. The Pacific Island nations get me… Palua, Vanuatu, Micronesia… no idea on those.
I guess I’m the geography geek here for now…
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### Author:  [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/22 "2008-02-17T23:40:48Z")
434,399
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/23 "2008-02-17T23:49:45Z")
162804 – completed level 5.
Gotta say, though, that I’m not too embarrasse by being off on Easter Island by 2000K, given that there’s nothing to mark that area of the South Pacific.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/24 "2008-02-18T01:47:12Z")
198,012 on level 6.
I have never been good with geography.
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### Author:  [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2008, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/25 "2008-02-18T05:43:04Z")
If you go [here](http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq/game1), you can play the other versions of the game, as well as the version that USFunds has embedded.
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### Author:  [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/26 "2008-02-18T18:57:48Z")
I only got around 170,000. I got mixed up between Ghana and Guyana, they’re on 2 totally different continents. The closest hit I had was for Stonehenge, only 15 km away.
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### Author:  [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/27 "2008-02-19T00:25:09Z")
Just did it again, got 471,536. Level 11 has a lot of Australia and Russia. Unless you know where every city in Russia is, you’re done for. Some were in the Arctic, others all the way east… it was crazy. And since I’m not an Australia native, I don’t know which side of that big island some of those cities are on.
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### Author:  [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2008, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/28 "2008-02-19T00:44:19Z")
1.
I shall try again. All will fall before me.
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### Author:  [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/29 "2008-02-19T00:49:19Z")
[QUOTE=feppytweed]
Just did it again, got 471,536. Level 11 has a lot of Australia and Russia. Unless you know where every city in Russia is, you’re done for. Some were in the Arctic, others all the way east… it was crazy. And since I’m not an Australia native, I don’t know which side of that big island some of those cities are on.
[/QUOTE]
Didn’t help me any. A born and bred Sydneysider, I was over a hundred and fifty kilometres out when it asked about the Opera House, yet I got Pompeii to within a stone’s throw. Although i’ve improved my score to the 400k’s now, I’m still coming up against the damn map resolution.
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### Author:  [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/30 "2008-02-19T01:03:55Z")
464805
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### Author:  [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2008, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/31 "2008-02-19T05:41:43Z")
558, 350.
Wilson’s reign shall soon end.
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### Author:  [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/32 "2008-02-19T17:50:06Z")
492,578 - with a crappy small monitor.
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/33 "2008-02-19T22:54:17Z")
476,884 (Level 11)
One little mistake in the Pacific, and you’re doomed.
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/34 "2008-02-20T01:08:10Z")
416,394
Could have done better on something bigger than a laptop monitor. Only had one that was really bad, and outright nailed a few. Was 100s of kilometers off on some stuff I know exactly where they are (I’ve lived in Geneva and Frankfurt, and I got those two in a row) because I couldn’t do detail on the map.
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/35 "2008-02-20T01:09:24Z")
[QUOTE=Wilson]
584,033. Level 12 was a killer. The Pacific Island nations get me… Palua, Vanuatu, Micronesia… no idea on those.
I guess I’m the geography geek here for now…
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I got Palau, Vanuatu and Micronesia all on level 8 or 9. Actually came decently close on those.
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### Author:  [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/36 "2008-02-20T01:31:09Z")
> [@](#):
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> If you go [here](http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq/game1) , you can play the other versions of the game, as well as the version that USFunds has embedded.
I think the resolution is even a bit better. I tried the American map and knew where the cities were but I did very badly on the places and city nicknames.
So even more fun geography games!
thanks
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/37 "2008-02-21T04:56:36Z")
375,712, and I got through Level 10. My proudest moment: clicking within 110km of Windhoek, Namibia. Cyprus doesn’t even appear on the fucking map, and I’m supposed to click on it? Grrr… :mad: 😃
Fun game, though.
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### Author:  [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2008, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/38 "2008-02-21T09:30:11Z")
I got asked to click on Easter Island! I can’t find that on the “Very Big Book of Maps” that lives on top of my bookcase!
Frustrating game that I have stopped playing - several times now.
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### Author:  [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/39 "2008-02-21T15:07:07Z")
I got 430,691. By the time I got to level 11, I was just happy to click in the right county most of the time, and you can be pretty far off even then in places like Russia or China. The map is way to small, though, when you really know where something is.
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### Author:  [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fun-geography-game/437899/40 "2008-02-21T16:02:50Z")
The best way to handle the size of the map is to change your desktop size to 640x480. Then it will fill your browser window nicely.
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