# Game of the States **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 18, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793 "2005-10-18T19:27:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/21 "2005-10-18T22:37:34Z")
I know where all the states are, but only got 41 out of 50 because my dragging dexterity is somewhat lacking. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/22 "2005-10-18T22:44:23Z")
They can’t fool me! Colorado and Wyoming are the same state, and they just pick the other one to mess with you. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/23 "2005-10-18T22:47:29Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > They can’t fool me! Colorado and Wyoming are the same state, and they just pick the other one to mess with you. Yep that was one of the ones that bit me. ---
**Author:** ![xbuckeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9e8a1a/32.png) [@xbuckeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xbuckeye)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/24 "2005-10-18T22:49:10Z")
94%, 8mi average error. I got Nevada and Kansas right off…they are hard to put in the right place without other states around. I attribute road tripping to my geographical mastery. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/25 "2005-10-19T00:42:37Z")
> [@Yeticus Rex](#): > > 100% with 0 mile error, 333 seconds, while taking a phone call and writing notes. > > Nebraska was 3rd in my line-up, but I eyeballed it pretty well, that was the only time I was sweating it. > > I love geography, and I ate this stuff up when it was drilled into my memory in the 6th grade, where we were tested every Friday morning…names and capitals of each state along with the Pledge of Allegiance, hand written, all 31 words, properly spelled and capitalized and in order. > > I work with developmentally disabled clients and we have a games/music room that has a puzzle of the states. Just for fun, I turn my back to the client or employee, and ask a client to pick a state from the puzzle and put it my hand without me looking at it. I will feel it in my hand and within a second or two, I will tell them the state and capital. Some of them were just awestruck, and there will be an occasional smartass that will try the old Colorado/Wyoming mixup to throw me off, but I can even tell the difference between those two. EVERYONE is doing better than me! Blast! 😃 At the risk of highjacking my own thread, I think you may be the one to ask. I heard awhile back about a series of memory tricks to remember all the State capitals. One was “Juno the capital of Alaska?” Have you heard of this? ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/26 "2005-10-19T01:00:27Z")
I suck. 82%. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/27 "2005-10-19T01:12:48Z")
92%, average error 13 miles, 188 seconds. It’s the square ones in the middle that always get me - and my score is always dependent on which ones they give me first. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/28 "2005-10-19T02:58:48Z")
46 Perfect out of 50. 92% Average Error: 12 Miles 315 seconds The hardest part is manipulating the mouse. I almost let go of several states too early. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/29 "2005-10-19T03:14:51Z")
96%, but my cat bumped my hand and made me drop Nevada! I think the other one I missed by 20 miles was Virginia. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/30 "2005-10-19T04:28:09Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > They can’t fool me! Colorado and Wyoming are the same state, and they just pick the other one to mess with you. Secret hint: Wyoming is notably bigger. Drive through both states, and you will see that this is in fact true, and even more amazingly, theres _less_ in Wyoming than in Colorado. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/31 "2005-10-19T04:38:08Z")
92% 15 mi 274 sec ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/32 "2005-10-19T07:05:55Z")
> [@Nic2004](#): > > EVERYONE is doing better than me! Blast! 😃 > At the risk of highjacking my own thread, I think you may be the one to ask. I heard awhile back about a series of memory tricks to remember all the State capitals. One was “Juno the capital of Alaska?” Have you heard of this? My 6th grade teacher was a retired Army Colonel…there were no tricks…just repetition and rote memory. He was REALLY GOOD at that. > [@Ninja Chick](#): > > Secret hint: Wyoming is notably bigger. Drive through both states, and you will see that this is in fact true, and even more amazingly, theres less in Wyoming than in Colorado. If I’m not being whooshed, Colorado is larger of the two. They happen to have realtively the same longitude and latitude dimensions (4 degrees by 7 degrees), but distance between longitude is smaller for Wyoming than Colorado since Wyoming is further north than Colorado. Colorado also has a slight bend on its western border (Montrose County) with Utah. ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/33 "2005-10-19T07:37:12Z")
96%, 4 mi average error, 373 seconds. I took my time. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/34 "2005-10-19T08:21:31Z")
Two more perfects…198 and 181 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/35 "2005-10-19T08:41:46Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > They can’t fool me! Colorado and Wyoming are the same state, and they just pick the other one to mess with you. Aha! Iron clad evidence of east cost Bias. Wyoming and Colorado are very clearly seperate states, with personalities as different as Sherri and Terri. The true insidiousness and evil of that quiz is the claim that Delaware actually exists. Fight the delusion! There is no spoon! There is no Deleware! ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/36 "2005-10-19T16:27:53Z")
94%, 6 miles,299 sec. I have done this before with a perfect score, you just can’t start with the interior states. ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/37 "2005-10-19T17:47:10Z")
98% (Despite my extensive geographic education, I can’t for the life of me recall the relative positions of Kansas and Nebraska) 4 mi avg. error, 179 seconds ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/38 "2005-10-19T18:07:30Z")
94% 7 miles average error 177 seconds It didn’t help that my first three states were Oklahoma, Utah, and Iowa. ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/39 "2005-10-19T18:12:22Z")
I would love a game like this for another part of the world, preferabbly at the placing countries in continents level. ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/40 "2005-10-19T18:20:14Z")
94%, 11 miles error average, 196 seconds . . . I got Utah first, then Conn, sheesh, I a southern boy, that’s tough [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793.md?page=3)