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Play Scrabble by Guessing Countries
When you name a country, your score is increased by the Scrabble value of the country name. How many points can you get in 2 minutes and 30 seconds?
Using the country names on the JetPunk countries of the world quiz
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Last updated: April 12, 2022
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| First submitted | January 1, 2022 |
| Times taken | 131,810 |
| Average score | 25.7% |
| Rating | 4.97 |
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And yeah, @MisterBrick is right: DR works. And actually very well: that’s the second best thing that you can type, after DRC. DR has an average of 14 points by letter typed, that’s huge.
I would have said to consult the blog link in caveat, but it seems that, by becoming feature, my quiz lost this link, so you can find all these stats and information in the blog entitled ´´How to Win at Playing Scrabble by Guessing Countries?’’.
And no, I won't increase the time of the quiz. Some users are able to complete Countries of the World in about 2 minutes and 30 seconds, so the quiz is currently technically doable, and the goal is not to make it finishable for everyone. And you-re wrong, the half is clearly reachable for many JetPunkers. If I can score more than 1,4 k, then everyone or almost can, with a bit of training.
Paraguay is 14 points, not 20.
Germany is 13 points, not 12.
Which brings total to 2707, not 2712.
Was wondering how to attack this quiz....
I've got a list of all the countries.
I know the point values for scrabble tiles.
I know some nifty functions in Sheets to calculate word scores. ;-)
=sum(arrayformula(vlookup(mid(A1,sequence(len(A1)),1),ScrabblePoints,2,0))) (If anyone is interested)
Thanks for the challenge.
This quiz was my very first Scrabble one, so that's the only one in the series with manually-calculated values. I got all the others with a formula a bit like yours on Sheets. This kind of mistake shouldn't be seen again, but I'm sorry these two ones.
And you know, there is a link to a blog in a sticky comment under this quiz with all the countries ranked by their value/letter. ;-)
Thanks for your help and your compliment!
This beats or equals 79% of test takers
The average score is 727
Your high score is 991
ON FIRST ATTEMPT, my high score improved by nearly a whopping 300 points from 1389 to 1678.
And I just made another improvement to my non-cheat sheet. With a little luck and getting in the zone, I might break 1800.
Haha! Pays to be smart, not "merely" hard-working and running only on "raw talent".
Good luck for your new objective!
I think that's pretty close to my max. In a blazing, sustained "white heat", I might be able to break 1900.
You'd need to get someone like the deceased Cortez Peters to finish this.
I compiled all of the suggestions you made and also added ANY countries that had the letters Q, Z, J, X, and K anywhere. I put all of those alphabetically, then the rest of the countries a-z alphabetically.
I put them in an Excel spreadsheet which I have up on the right 35-40% of my screen. Then I have the Jetpunk window up on the remaining left 60-65% of my screen.
I am a good enough trained typist to look at what is on the right and just "go to it". I can almost always feel when I made a mistake. I can see, while I am looking at the right of what I am typing, via my peripheral, whether or not the country I just got through typing registered or not. If what is entered in the "guess" box just keeps getting longer, I go back and correct. If not, then I keep going.
I will tell you more if you're interested. Now, I am going to have to try to figure out how to share this result. LOL.
ETA: Just got 1927.
ETA: Just got 1941.
I know by name a few uers who hav a short enough time on COTW to finish this quiz: RPHXX (2:15), Luni (2:18), rawe (2:20). You can send themfriend requests to know their stts on COTW andthis quiz, as a reference. But yeah, you are truly part of the top of the top.
I have now broken 1900 4X with this strategy.
1) First, I type all of the acronyms to get them out of the way. They're unnatural letter combos. With them out of the way, you can fly.
2) After that, I type in what are about the top 40% of the most valuable natural word names. I have them in alphabetical order.
Also, typing multiple word countries is a WASTE of time, with only 3 exceptions. That space bar = absolutely zero value. As with the acronyms, if you ignore the space bar, you can fly even more.
3) Next are the 3 exception multiple word countries I think are worthwhile, grouped together to ease flow of concentration.
4) After those are what I call the "middle value" regular-name countries, which comprise about 20% of all of the countries.
5) Then, lastly, what I deem the low value countries, which I barely break into typing.
1) CAR, DPRK, DR, FSM, KSA, NZ, PNG, ROK, UAE, UK, USA
2) Afghanistan Antigua Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Belize Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia Botswana Brazil Cambodia Chad Chile China Colombia Congo Cuba Cyprus Czechia Denmark Djibouti Egypt Ethiopia Fiji France Gambia Germany Guyana Hungary Iraq Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgystan Libya Luxembourg Macedonia Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mexico Moldova Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Norway Pakistan Paraguay Philippines Qatar Rwanda Seychelles Slovakia Sweden Switzerland Tajikistan Tanzania Trinidad Turkey Turkmenistan Ukraine Uzbekistan Venezuela Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe
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4) Cameroon Canada Comoros Dominica Finland Greece Haiti Honduras Italy Latvia Mali Madagascar Monaco Namibia Oman Peru Poland Syria Taiwan Thailand Tuvalu Uruguay
Then, if anybody actually really cares to get not only 5 stars, but 99% or higher, then they can research what are the rest of the countries I didn't name and type them however.
What I do is have them all in a list in Excel, with the tabs in columns, 24 rows, without the ribbon showing in order to accommodate that many rows. On my laptop, I have then zoomed in at 100% (no more or less), and I allow for them to be 6 columns across because I know I can't type any more than that in the allotted time. I have the column width averaged out at about 10.
That takes up about 35-40% of the screen, horizontally. The rest is for the Jetpunk window.
As I was trained as a touch typist in elementary school in the 1980s, I look at what's on the right and type it.
Voila, now 1900+ or 99.9% 4X for me.
24 Mar 2023 1982
24 Mar 2023 1899
24 Mar 2023 1952
24 Mar 2023 1885
24 Mar 2023 1941
24 Mar 2023 1963
24 Mar 2023 1909
24 Mar 2023 1878
24 Mar 2023 1941
So, I've already broken that 1941 3 times: 1952, 1963, and 1982!!!
It looks like 2000 might be just around the corner. I did a touch more tweaking.
I often have a hard time typing "Mozambique", and if not, then I almost always get a little twisted within 4 or 5 countries after that. Hard to de-prioritize it at 34 points, though.
Although I've offered a good bit of strategy, there is also part of a strategy that I haven't tried and that it would take a lot of work to try to incorporate. There's got to be a study somewhere of the most easy vs most difficult letter combinations to type. That could be applied to how I have them all ordered. Maybe that would help. Or maybe not because alphabetization helps with memory which helps with flow. Not sure. Hmmmmmm......
ETA: 2012. I AM DONE, PEOPLE!!!
If I can do it, so can you!!!
About ordering your answers, yeah, it would probably help a lot, but that would be a very long work, so maybe it's worthier to train yourself with your current list than reordering it.
And yeah, Mozambique is definitely a most-guess answer for this quiz.
One of the best quizzes out there- and a great idea! That Jeppy Scrabble is too cute, too.
Qatar , Nepal , Azerbaijan , Bahrain , Syria
I got a lot of countries, but most of them didn't give a lot of points (my fault lol). Definitely one of the most creative quizzes on the platform tho
thats the best i'm doing
If looking for a strategy, a blog has been published about it. I guess it can help.
This beats or equals 91% of test takers
The average score is 706
Your high score is 1158
This beats or equals 100% of test takers
The average score is 697
Your high score is 2300
Nauru is one of the worst possible answer but not the worst one: some 4 letter-countries like Iran are doing worse.
This is something I've never seen on JetPunk before. I didn't even focus that much. 1476/2712. Great quiz.
I got 1779 oh jeez