If you find any mistakes on the quiz e.g. a country appearing within the star but not counted as an answer, or vice versa, please let me know in a comment and include the three digit code which appears after the quiz at the bottom left, to save me trawling through the hundreds of answers looking for the broken one. Thanks!
Dependent Territories such as Greenland, Gibraltar and Puerto Rico are not counted in the quiz.
Integral Overseas Territories such as Hawaii, The Azores and the Canary Islands are counted as these are considered integral parts of the country.
The ones to watch out for are, as ever, the overseas departments and regions of France (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, Réunion) and the Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, Saint Eustatius, Saba).
Safari Users: If the quiz is not displaying correctly, make sure you don't have your browser screen zoomed in or out (hit command+0 to reset the zoom level on Mac).
Or just try a different web browser. I implemented a fix to deal with Safari issues previously but it looks like with the latest update of Safari it's broken again. I can't keep up with their annoying browser...
wow, amazing! as in I had no idea anything like this was possibly, but also very well designed to be a challenging quiz even if you know well your world map! how do you rotate svg maps etc?! if you felt like making a blog/article explaining the work behind this quiz it would be very helpful!
It’s all done with CSS. If you copy the quiz you can find the CSS in the html of the first row of every group of 15 under “Country”. It’s different for every set. To work them all out was a whole lot of trial and error using a separate quiz set up just for finding and checking answers. Lots of nudging left and right, up and down, zooming in and out, turning this way and that. Quite tricky to get exactly 15 countries in each star, and changing the zoom would affect the location and vice versa so… a challenge.
I’m unlikely to write a blog about the making of it I’m afraid… spent long enough making the quiz. It’s not quite finished in truth but after working on it bit by bit on and off for years I eventually decided I should just submit it! Maybe I’ll finish it one day…
And Taiwan MIGHT just about make it on 272 and 273 with Qixingyan which is about 15km south from mainland Taiwan (Half distance of the strait between Hainan and mainland China at widest)
Philippines on 671 because of Batan Islands
Japan on 289 because of Minamitorishima (which I think is already on the SVG)
I’ll look into these when I can. Currently between computers. East Asia was still something I was working on. Quite tricky keeping things below the maximum file size while adding lots of islands.
Looks like Chile and Argentina were cut on 391 as they weren’t answers to get the file size down so the quiz could be uploaded, but I didn’t realise they should still appear in the circle. Will see if I can get them back…
I wonder what are the odds of getting France. I think it's actually the most likely one. Guess it as the first one and figure out what part of the world you're in.
I have no idea why I decided to start with North Macedonia (it's horrible odds). But she showed up in the corner of my star, and a handful of guesses later--complete. Craziness.
on 808 shouldn't Sri Lanka be included? it has to be if maldives and India are part of that map.i guess not because star goes past Sri Lanka on both sides but touches India. good tricky part of map.
Took me 7 attempts before I finally got something other than African countries (my weakest continent by far!). Not sure if just bad luck or something with the algorithm that you're able to update to make it more random? Awesome idea and execution, I'm just a sore loser lol
That’s just bad luck really to get 7 in a row. I can’t program it to take your previous spin into account unfortunately. It’s because it so random that that can happen.
There are a lot of African possibilities, especially in the north as stars can overlap from Europe and Asia. But I tried to balance the quiz as much as possible with answers from everywhere where a star of 15 countries was possible.
This is - as others have said - totally addictive.
Once you get the first country and work out the orientation it's not too hard but those two things can be challenging. Especially as I'm a 2 elbow typist
Well thanks :) How do you know these things though, is there a chart somewhere? I can just see from my own stats that it was my day with the most takes. Glad people enjoyed it as it was in the works for a long time. (I’m sure you know the feeling!)
I don’t think I have anything that quite measures up to this—probably the best quiz on the whole site! Anyway, Stewart’s 2024 year-end blog lists the top quizzes by day since they’ve tracked it. You officially have the second-highest. I also happened to make blogs of the “#1 hits” from 2024 and 2023 and have the number of takes from the day they topped the chart. Last year’s highest was 37,000 (my capitals sudden death quiz). Fastest keystrokes had 42,000 in 2022.
Interesting, thanks. Wouldn’t say it’s the best on the site, but very kind of you. These high daily takes quizzes come down a lot to quick replayability and there are many amazing quizzes that don’t have that factor. As for your quizzes, your innovations in quiz making have already changed the site for everyone! And I happen to know of at least one long-gestating project that’s gonna blow people’s minds… :)
I put DRC and it got accepted as DR (Dominican Republic) but I didn't notice. I then spent the next few minutes questioning my map skills after guessing every country near the DRC.
This quiz is awesome! I have played it so many times already. I tend to get the same areas repeatedly (eastern africa, middle east, -stans, carribean) but occasionally I get a really hard one like trans-atlantic. Funny that some countries like Canada just never come up because they're too large and don't have a lot of other countries around them.
This is the BEST geography quiz I have ever taken. Very hard, but extremely well done. I don't know how you created it, but congratulations! Thank you. I can't seem to stop playing!
The star is somewhere on the world map with 15 countries inside it. You have to guess them. Start by guessing larger countries in the world until you find somewhere within the star. Then fill in the other countries around it.
your game is super fun and really unique, but I feel like it'd be so much more fun if we had clues for the main country, because it's almost impossible to guess the star country for me most of the times which makes it frustrating.
I think it should be changed to be consistent for constituent countries cause there's no way you can say Greenland is more of a dependent territory than Reunion.
It is consistent. I’m going by the definitions in the wikis linked and the general definitions used by JetPunk. Changing it would just lead to other complaints (and would be a huge waste of time).
Hello, am I supposed to just guess a country? like no clues nothing? I guessed right the first time and it was super fun ( I guessed Micronesia because I thought the star and blue were the clues) but I can't seem to guess the right country now, just because there's over 196 ones and the quiz duration is 2 minutes only lol. So I guess I'm too stupid for this and I hope someone could help explain the rules please, and I'll be super thankful ♡.
No number popped up (although they did for the other rounds I played so I don't know where it went) but it has Italy as the main focus and then the Balkans on the top of the star. It has Macedonia as a country and no North Macedonia, although that is the name of the country.
This quiz is one of the best on Jetpunk. Very well made and perfect honestly. I highly respect you for making this quiz. I have only one question: I'm just curious, how many possible stars are there because I got 559 last time and even saw that someone had one that's number was more than 600. Thank you for making this quiz though. It's awesome!
Cool effects, but you have to just guess random countries and if you end up hitting on any by the time limit you won't have time to get the rest. Challenging quizzes are great but requiring you to blindly guess is not a good way to do it.
Not really. If you think about it you can work out which countries on the map are the most useful to guess, and a short list of them will get you started on most quizzes pretty quickly.
Integral Overseas Territories such as Hawaii, The Azores and the Canary Islands are counted as these are considered integral parts of the country.
The ones to watch out for are, as ever, the overseas departments and regions of France (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, Réunion) and the Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, Saint Eustatius, Saba).
Or just try a different web browser. I implemented a fix to deal with Safari issues previously but it looks like with the latest update of Safari it's broken again. I can't keep up with their annoying browser...
its crazy how many there are
im impressed
I’m unlikely to write a blog about the making of it I’m afraid… spent long enough making the quiz. It’s not quite finished in truth but after working on it bit by bit on and off for years I eventually decided I should just submit it! Maybe I’ll finish it one day…
Philippines on 671 because of Batan Islands
Japan on 289 because of Minamitorishima (which I think is already on the SVG)
Fantastic quiz, obviously. I will play this obsessively.
The star also contained yugoslavia, germany and italy if it makes the search for it easier.
Great quiz, highly addictive!
32.4% of test takers also scored 100%
The average score is 11
Your high score is 15
Your fastest time is 0:51
I can play this forever
There are a lot of African possibilities, especially in the north as stars can overlap from Europe and Asia. But I tried to balance the quiz as much as possible with answers from everywhere where a star of 15 countries was possible.
Once you get the first country and work out the orientation it's not too hard but those two things can be challenging. Especially as I'm a 2 elbow typist
The three digit code wasn't displayed, but the map pointed north and had Italy on the left. North macedonia in the bottom right.
Edit: So is 268 and 676. None of them seem to work, it's 0/3.
on 686 Albania, bosnia, slovakia, serbia, montenegro, Kosovo, malta, italy, north macedonia, romania, hungay and croatia were not on the map and
Cyprus, lebanon, isreal, libya, egypt, jordan, syria, saudi arabia and iraq did not show when typed(and palestina if you included it on the game)
Still a cool quiz nonetheless.
You're likely to find that one of them is within the star, and then you can work from there.
How many star combinations are there?
uh...Netherlands - Couple more tiny islands.
I was like wait...what the heck? Turns out i didn't remember my Caribbean islands very well.