Country Elimination by Category - Sudden Death!

Eliminate countries based on the instruction at the bottom. When you think you are done, click the arrows to move between categories. Eliminate all the countries! WARNING: Sudden death mode is active. If you click a country on the WRONG category... you lose!
Independence from UK refers to its current iteration of independence, and counts the British Empire.
One "debatable" incorrect answer won't cause sudden death.
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57 Comments
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Level 63
Sep 12, 2024
Singapore doesnt work for 2 oceans?
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Level 83
Sep 12, 2024
Wikipedia and the JetPunk quiz about two-ocean countries say no. I'm no expert on the strait of Malacca, so I won't argue with them. :)
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Level 63
Sep 12, 2024
I tried the same thing. I thought Singapore was around the border of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Wikipedia seems to say that the Strait of Malacca connects the two oceans and lists Singapore in both of the respective articles (Indian Ocean under trade, Pacific Ocean under bordering countries).
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Level 83
Sep 15, 2024
So after some investigation, I don't think there's any logical reason to think that Singapore is directly on the boundary between the Indian and the Pacific Ocean. There's an entire island to the west that blocks Singapore from the Indian Ocean. I took out the sudden death on that one... but I'm not allowing it as a correct answer. Singapore has other answers anyway. :)
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Level 63
Sep 12, 2024
Denmark doesn’t touch two oceans using oversas territory like france?
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Level 83
Sep 12, 2024
As far as I know they only have Atlantic Ocean holdings.
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Level 63
Sep 13, 2024
greenland
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Level 83
Sep 13, 2024
Oh that’s probably arctic, eh?
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Level 63
Sep 13, 2024
ye soooo
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Level 63
Sep 14, 2024
shant it be changed then
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Level 83
Sep 14, 2024
This isn’t something I can change on mobile, unfortunately. I have to change the function via the SVG file’s code. But the three mistakes/debatable answers will be fixed when possible.
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Level 63
Sep 12, 2024
24/24 FINALLY

nommed

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Level 83
Sep 12, 2024
Thanks! I might have to make a second one that's not quite as tough. It seems like most people are taking this quiz about 5 or 6 times, and only getting 8/25 on their first attempts!
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Level 63
Sep 13, 2024
thus hard gets more takes per player
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Level 76
Sep 23, 2024
I got 18 on my first attempt (and am bad at population and flags, basicly the only one I knew for sure were the landlocked countries and apart from 1 country I was relatively sure about mediteranean aswell)

I got it on the 3rd attempt, 2nd time I pressed the final answer in the wrong category...

So I think the quiz is good as it is (which is awesome btw) if even I could get a decent result here.

It's a matter of doing the ones you know for certain first and then go back and forthe between the categories to pick the ones you think are most likely to be true. Some educated guesses can get you far (like I seemed to remember there was an island (in oceania) with a sun in its flag though no idea which island, but I took the plunge and also that arab countries often have a moon)

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Level 76
Sep 23, 2024
And currently it is already up to 11 for the average first attempt score. I think perhaps the people that took the quiz first/early might have been hasty with answering aswell? And that now people that are more carefull are starting to take the quiz.

The first couple of days always give skewed scores anyway

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Level 68
Sep 12, 2024
He he he— this is a tricky one! Love it. So tough. In a good way. : )

Your message upon failure is just the best thing ever. Hilarious.

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Level 75
Sep 13, 2024
Nominated!
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Level 75
Sep 13, 2024
Yay! Another brilliant use of sudden death settings plus logical elimination process: that's a nomination for sure!
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Level 57
Sep 13, 2024
Brillant! You are doing excellent things with this amazing format, congrats! Of course, you got my nom.
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Level 72
Sep 14, 2024
this is a great format, nice job dude
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Level 91
Sep 14, 2024
Nice job with the quiz, but are you sure about Laos not having a moon on its flag? On the Wikipedia page the name of the flag is translated as "The white moon flag", and several other websites I checked also say the disc symbolizes the full moon.

I also agree with comments above wrt Singapore and Denmark bordering two oceans.

Still enjoyed the quiz despite the objections though! Hope to see more like it.

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Level 83
Sep 14, 2024
Whoops!! I’ll be honest… I switched Laos in after I felt that having another Nordic country was too boring and forgot to check the Laos flag. I’ll have to make some updates when I can access the SVG coding on a computer. Thanks for the heads up!!
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Level 91
Sep 14, 2024
Strong, nommed! Palau got me the first time, 24 on the second.
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Level 63
Sep 19, 2024
Why can't this quiz be nominated anymore?
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Level 83
Sep 19, 2024
I added a caveat that made the instructions too long. Deleted one that wasn’t really needed… I’m pretty sure this won’t be featured any time soon, though.
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Level 63
Sep 20, 2024
It's already at 13 nominations. I hope it will get featured!
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Level 76
Sep 23, 2024
19 now :) definitely worth a feature!
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Level 83
Sep 25, 2024
Definitely not getting featured 😂
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Level 42
Dec 24, 2024
Well, it got featured :)
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Level 83
Dec 24, 2024
In the blog! 😄
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Level 68
Sep 23, 2024
WOW these quizzes are just getting better and better
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Level 71
Sep 23, 2024
The Singapore one was mean >:( I guess it technically got independence from Malaysia, but only after like 2 years!!!

Great quiz otherwise though, some of these were tough!

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Level 65
Sep 23, 2024
>:( indeed
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Level 89
Sep 23, 2024
Ok, here's another one 🙂...

Croatia also does, I'm afraid, depict the sun or the moon on its flag.

Specifically, the moon: the flag of Croatia incorporates, above the checkered shield, "the historical arms of Croatia, Dubrovnik, Dalmatia, Istria and Slavonia."

That first one on the left, the historical coat of arms of (the region of) Croatia, depicts "A golden six-pointed star (representing the morning star) over a silver crescent moon on a blue shield" (emphasis mine)...

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Level 83
Sep 23, 2024
Wow, nice eye. Fixed.
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Level 79
Sep 23, 2024
what's the final answer? it doesn't show up if you fail
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Level 61
Sep 23, 2024
𝘚ᴜᴅᴅᴇɴ 𝘋ᴇᴀᴛʜ﹗𝘎ᴏ﹗

Hell of a good quiz

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Level 46
Sep 25, 2024
Not a fan of the AI thumbnail.
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Level 83
Oct 1, 2024
Please submit your hand drawn image in the comments and I’ll use it.
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Level 46
Jun 6, 2025
I didn’t see this reply at first, but here you go. A thumbnail I crafted with all ten of my fingers, with accurate flags, to boot. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1225007830612836396/1380628087510929469/Free_online_photo_editor_-_Image_editor_with_many_image_editing_functions_2.png?ex=6844919a&is=6843401a&hm=a32978356bc6240cbeaa548871bbffb733c71a84e65c639038c5455d93d302d5&

You can’t prove I didn’t draw all of this myself.

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Level 83
Oct 7, 2024
Bolivia doesn't have the sun or the moon? Wanna check that one again?
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Level 83
Oct 7, 2024
Checked. It apparently does. Huh.
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Level 63
Nov 8, 2024
This quiz is so good it inspired a whole quiz format :)
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Level 83
Nov 8, 2024
Ha ha, thanks. I think the capitals elimination was my first sudden death quiz. It's certainly cool to see a new format that probably was in some way influenced by my quizzes. :)
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Level 63
Nov 8, 2024
the quiz is happy that I gave up
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Level 83
Nov 8, 2024
Yeah... I probably should make a different animation happen or something for when players give up or run out of time.
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Level 40
Nov 9, 2024
Hey, what game is that on the thumbnail?
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Level 42
Dec 24, 2024
Loved this!
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Level 45
Mar 25, 2025
It's a crime that you can't nominate this.
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Level 83
Mar 25, 2025
I… uh… my code to stop the zooming feature on the SVG caused thousands of error messages on the server. 😅
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Level 48
Jun 10, 2025
Crazy...
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Level 84
Jun 17, 2025
Ugh!!! I've done this a thousand times and I'm getting stalled by "has arctic/antarctic claims"! By the time I get to this one, I only have two options left, neither of which work. Are some of the choices possible for multiple answers? In which case, I don't have an option when I get to this one.
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Level 83
Jun 17, 2025
You might have eliminated all Antarctic claims by then. Countries can fit multiple categories.
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Level 55
Jul 1, 2025
I got eliminated for saying Singapore gained independence from the UK even though they did in fact do that. What gives?
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Level 83
Jul 30, 2025
They actually gained independence from Malaysia. Malaysia kicked them out of their country soon after Malaysian independence.
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Level 49
Jan 22, 2026
AI thumbnail lol