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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
 Posted - 08/10/2008 : 21:10:28
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Must kill Danio over at Pharyngula for providing a link to this frustrating game.
I always thought I was pretty good at geography. I haven't made it past level 10 (personal best: 394,472 points).
...Ya know, once you've misread "Serbia" as "Siberia," you pretty much know you're hosed.
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Evidently, I rock!
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2008 : 22:12:23 [Permalink]
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Bleh... didn't make it past level 6. My geography knowledge is terrible!
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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tomk80
SFN Regular
Netherlands
1278 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2008 : 06:11:25 [Permalink]
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| Cool game. I hate African countries, there's just too many of them I don't know! |
Tom
`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2008 : 06:47:46 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Must kill Danio over at Pharyngula for providing a link to this frustrating game.
I always thought I was pretty good at geography. I haven't made it past level 10 (personal best: 394,472 points).
...Ya know, once you've misread "Serbia" as "Siberia," you pretty much know you're hosed.
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"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2008 : 07:03:52 [Permalink]
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338,404 at level 10 on my first attempt.
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I even got the continents wrong a couple of times... |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2008 : 10:42:13 [Permalink]
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I got to level 10 also.
Too bad English and Swedish names of locations are not the same. I'd do better if game was in Swedish.
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2008 : 10:58:31 [Permalink]
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| Shoot. Missed level 10 by 2,500 points. Ended up with 315,824 on level 9. The biggest problem for me was India, where I'd keep picking south and they'd all be north, and I'd be off by 4,000 km... |
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2008 : 11:49:48 [Permalink]
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| Got level 10 once - but since I get these towns in Africa which I've never heard of... |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2008 : 12:28:36 [Permalink]
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Anyone ever nail a location dead on? I managed to be off by only 33 km for Stonehenge, once.
Edited to say: just missed Boston by 22 km. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2008 : 12:47:15 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Anyone ever nail a location dead on? I managed to be off by only 33 km for Stonehenge, once.
Edited to say: just missed Boston by 22 km.
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Closest I came was San Francisco. I don't recall the km's though. And I am still trying to get past level 6, though I have only played a couple of times. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
Genetic Literacy Project |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2008 : 13:29:31 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Anyone ever nail a location dead on? I managed to be off by only 33 km for Stonehenge, once.
Edited to say: just missed Boston by 22 km.
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I got within 50 of Tehran and 60 of Lebanon. What's frustrating is that on a number of them, I could get them dead on if the map were a little larger. As it is, for the places that I know (and not just guessing), I usually only get within 120 km or so, but rarely better than that... |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2008 : 14:24:03 [Permalink]
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I just nabbed an off-by-6km for MoMA.
And someone over on Pharyngula is changing his screen resolution to 640x480 to better see the map. That's hard-core. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
4907 Posts |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2008 : 17:52:28 [Permalink]
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One lucky click for 5km from Old Faithful.
Usually the closest I can get is 100-200, and thats when I actually know what I'm looking for.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2008 : 19:40:48 [Permalink]
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| Damn. I, too, am stuck on level 10. In 4 tries, my high is 390,691. Obviously the more you play, the better you get since a number of cities and places recycle. I don't know how many are given for each level, but it seems like I get a few of 'em each time. |
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Addictive is right
