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Geography 101; or how to waste gobs of time at work
Topic Started: May 1 2008, 11:40 AM (290 Views)
sue
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HOLY CARP!!!
:cool: Very addictive

This is Earth. You know that, right?
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The 89th Key
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Cool!!

I'm going to try right now and see what kind of score I end up with (not sure how they score yet).
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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
Pretty cool, but pretty easy to figure out, too.

For the vast majority of it, it's just knowing the country.

For the rare big countries, there are general rules you can follow. Like China, Brazil and Australia's bigger populations are on the eastern part of the country, etc. And if you don't know the exact location in the country, you can pick dead center and still get pretty close.

Still fun though!
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Free Rider
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the crosshairs themselves are 500km in radius.
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The 89th Key
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Ok first try: 305,900 points...just barely missed getting to level 10.

Fun! Interesting to know what places I knew and what places I didn't.
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Kincaid
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Fun. Got to level 10 and it told me I was too short of points. If given a bit more time I could have done much better. I switched Pakistan for Bangladesh, misread Swaziland for Switzerland, picked France instead of Germany once or twice because I was in a hurry.

I did hit some obscure place w/in 60 km or something like that.
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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big al
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379,750; level 10

That's a fun game. Africa is my nemesis.

I imagine Sue can beat most of us at the Canada game on that website. :biggrin:

Big Al
Location: Western PA

"jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen."
-bachophile
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Kincaid
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Second try still stuck in level 10, but got 406,939 total points.

Barundi and Brunei were my biggest failings - made the same mistake twice.
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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sue
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big al
May 1 2008, 01:11 PM
379,750; level 10

That's a fun game. Africa is my nemesis.

I imagine Sue can beat most of us at the Canada game on that website. :biggrin:

Big Al

:lol: No! She crashed and burned when it zoomed into Ontario. :tongue: I had fun with the UNESCO sites one, though.
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