# Amusing Geography Flash Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 2, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050 "2007-11-02T19:57:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/21 "2007-11-03T00:08:27Z")
First try: Level 10, 349686. Not displeased, could be better. Eh. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/22 "2007-11-03T00:13:22Z")
yeah - cool game, tiny screen. I got through level 10, 394,257 points. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/23 "2007-11-03T00:31:12Z")
36,861 out of a needed 55,000 for level 10 and an IQ of 121 on my first try. I got within 50 miles of both Andorra and San Marino. I apparently rock. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/24 "2007-11-03T01:02:13Z")
The closest I got to any one target was 4km to someplace in St. Petersburg, RUS ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/25 "2007-11-03T01:06:24Z")
Level 5! Sweet action! (I’m on a laptop? I hate geography.) ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/26 "2007-11-03T01:20:00Z")
Did pretty good until [Bouvet Island, Norway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouvet_Island) threw me right off – who knew it was that close to Antarctica?? ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/27 "2007-11-03T16:52:38Z")
First try: Score: 252,060 Level: 8 IQ: 100 ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/28 "2007-11-03T17:02:52Z")
[QUOTE=KGS] Did pretty good until [Bouvet Island, Norway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouvet_Island) threw me right off – who knew it was that close to Antarctica?? [/QUOTE] Fantastic. Places like Micronesia are a bit of a problem, too! There’s a lot of Pacific to take a guess in. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/29 "2007-11-03T17:37:21Z")
After several tries and getting “sorry, you did not score enugh to pass the level” I fnally got 60,000 in the last round, but nothing else happened. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/30 "2007-11-03T17:44:51Z")
[QUOTE=drm] Can anybody beat a distance of 11 000 (or so)? I misread Tanzania for Tasmania. The misery of that is that Tanzania is one of the two dozen or so countries in Africa I can readily locate. [/QUOTE] I can. I mixed up Guinea with New Guinea. Missed it by 15,000 kms. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/31 "2007-11-03T17:46:46Z")
[QUOTE=Dante] I can. I mixed up Guinea with New Guinea. Missed it by 15,000 kms. [/QUOTE] I’m so glad I’m not alone on this one! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/32 "2007-11-03T20:02:38Z")
I completed all 12 levels, but didn’t realize I had an IQ and total score listed before I closed the window. Obviously it’s a different game each time, as I wasn’t unfortunate enough to get Bouvet Island nor fortunate enough to be given San Marino. Island nations are the toughest, along with such huge countries as Brazil, China, and Russia. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2007, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/33 "2007-11-04T02:22:53Z")
I got to 6. I realize now that I no almost nothing of middle east geography. Then again, I was on ly 92 kilometers off for the city in Nigeria. I grossly miscalculated a pacific rim country and was 8000+ off. :eek: The map needs to be bigger–that would help a bit. ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2007, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/34 "2007-11-04T02:57:37Z")
[QUOTE=slortar] Found this on another board and thought it was fun. I hit 8th level on first try, 10th on the second. The questions get pretty obscure at higher levels. 🙂 [http://www.aftenposten.no/reise/article2065386.ece?95e3=ec56](http://www.aftenposten.no/reise/article2065386.ece?95e3=ec56) And this is the part where about 40 people post in this thread with “This was really easy. I gave it to my 4 year old kid sister and she scored 12th level on her first try.” 😃 [/QUOTE] hrummp. level 11 travel IQ 123. I was robbed! I was way off with the Mayan cities. By the time I remembered where the Mayans really lived (I know Mexico, but in fact they lived in the Yucatan south) the series was over. And Christmas Island-when did they move it north of Australia??? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2007, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/35 "2007-11-04T12:23:29Z")
Level 10, 395,447 pts. Totally lost it on the last level, put Pacific Islands in the Atlantic, lost the Maldives and Mauritania. :smack: And I consistently put the cities in South Africa on the wrong coast. Not as bad as the almost 12,000 km I had on that last screw up, at least I was in the right hemisphere. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2007, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/36 "2007-11-04T12:29:46Z")
[QUOTE=Yeticus Rex] Damn thing froze up on me several times…couldn’t get past level 2 when half of the locations timed out. [/QUOTE] Same here. I couldn’t even do one. Doesn’t seem to like me. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/37 "2007-11-05T00:26:22Z")
Level 10 got me - I have an embarrassingly bad concept of African geography. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/38 "2007-11-05T01:04:36Z")
Um…I’m terrible. Final level - 3 IQ - 80 Final score - 56,710. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/39 "2007-11-05T01:15:01Z")
second try - 60,774 pts third try - 61,957 fourth try - 62,867 Not once above level 3. At this rate I’ll get to the final round in…40 years. ---
**Author:** ![Kerrigan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/49beb7/32.png) [@Kerrigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kerrigan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050/40 "2007-11-05T04:28:25Z")
Score: 140,795 Final level: 5 IQ: 88 Geography is obviously a weak point of mine. I was proud just to locate all but a couple of the right countries - nevermind the exact locations of cities. Also, I’m on a MacBook. Small screen, you know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-geography-flash-game/425050.md?page=3)