Spin the World & Guess the Countries

Spin to a RANDOM star somewhere on the world map, then guess the 15 HIDDEN COUNTRIES
Integral overseas territories included. Dependent territories not included. See comments.
Quiz uses standard JetPunk world map projection with some added detail.
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Last updated: June 6, 2025
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First submittedFebruary 1, 2024
Times taken261,554
Average score66.7%
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Country
Panama
Costa Rica
Colombia
Venezuela
Suriname
Guyana
France
Brazil
Ecuador
Peru
Bolivia
Argentina
Nicaragua
Paraguay
Uruguay
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101 Recent Comments
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Level 88
Feb 2, 2024
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!
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Level 88
Feb 2, 2024
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).

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Level 88
Jan 30, 2025
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...

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Level 41
Nov 1, 2024
i just played number 666

its crazy how many there are

im impressed

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Level 41
Dec 27, 2025
How many different stars are there? I got 135
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Level 80
Nov 7, 2024
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!
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Level 88
Jan 28, 2025
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…

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Level 55
Nov 7, 2024
261 one is so hard! Although, got everything! Gonna nominate when I'll be able to.
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Level 61
Nov 24, 2024
So unfair that I landed straight in Oceania. But great quiz nontheless, nommed for sure
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Level 58
Oct 4, 2025
I landed in the Caribbean with 80% island countries...
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Level 75
Nov 25, 2024
Why are Chile and Argentina are missing from the circle of 391? Did they go for a walk and never came back
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Level 75
Nov 25, 2024
Also the Seychelles might make be on 891 because of the Farquhar Group and Mauritius because of Agalega. Same with 560
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Level 75
Nov 25, 2024
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)

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Level 88
Dec 16, 2024
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.
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Level 88
Dec 16, 2024
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…
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Level 57
Dec 8, 2024
Such a cool quiz! Took me quite a while since I got the Caribbean area
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Level 45
Dec 16, 2024
Nominated!!!
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Level 99
Dec 16, 2024
wooow
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Level 66
Dec 16, 2024
cool quiz again man
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Level 75
Dec 17, 2024
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.
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Level 88
Dec 22, 2024
Definitely a good first guess.
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Level 61
Jan 28, 2025
France seems to be in about three-quarters of the ones I've done so far
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Level 88
Dec 17, 2024
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.
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Level 66
Dec 17, 2024
When you guess United States correctly but all you see pop up on the map are some microscopic islands :(((

Fantastic quiz, obviously. I will play this obsessively.

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Level 93
Dec 18, 2024
that...was...AWESOME!!!
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Level 58
Jan 2, 2025
I got a star without a number where north macedonia was still called macedonia.

The star also contained yugoslavia, germany and italy if it makes the search for it easier.

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Level 88
Jan 2, 2025
Thanks, found the culprit. I’m going to do a more general update soon so will fix that when I do.
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Level 45
Jan 23, 2025
Yall are the craziest breed of sweat. I got 13/15 and Im in the bottom half
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Level 68
Jan 28, 2025
WOAH this is another level, overtired. Excellent quiz, very feature worthy
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Level 86
Jan 28, 2025
Amazing quiz, that must've been a lot of work. Well done!
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Level 34
Jan 28, 2025
great! first time playing and i got 15/15, plus my country Brazil
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Level 59
Jan 28, 2025
It should be North Macedonia instead of Macedonia.

Great quiz, highly addictive!

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Level 88
Jan 28, 2025
Yep, sorry, North Macedonia is misnamed on a couple of answers. Will fix when I update the quiz.
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Level 65
Jan 28, 2025
SPIN THE GLOBE
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Level 45
Jan 28, 2025
I kinda wish the timer would start right when you identify the first country so I don't waste so much time blind guessing
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Level 41
Jan 28, 2025
what is this supposed to be?
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Level 47
Jan 28, 2025
This is so random☹️
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Level 89
Jan 28, 2025
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.
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Level 88
Jan 28, 2025
I’ll check it when I can but if it’s not in the Star it doesn’t count.
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Level 37
Jan 28, 2025
You scored 15/15 = 100%

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

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Level 61
Jan 28, 2025
Literally 30 seconds left when I got my first country :-/
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Level 66
Jan 28, 2025
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
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Level 88
Jan 28, 2025
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.

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Level 69
Jan 28, 2025
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

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Level 69
Jan 28, 2025
not much you can do when you don't get yr first country until theres less than 20 seconds left :(
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Level 88
Jan 28, 2025
Try big central countries first, or France as it has parts dotted around the world.
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Level 83
Jan 28, 2025
Amazing quiz. This is on pace to be the highest number of takes in a single day for any quiz in years. Way to go!
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Level 88
Jan 29, 2025
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!)
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Level 83
Jan 29, 2025
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.
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Level 88
Jan 30, 2025
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… :)
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Level 83
Feb 25, 2025
If I ever finish it, ha ha. It’s getting pretty complex so hopefully it’s before 2026.
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Level 60
Apr 21, 2025
funny to read after Dimby's quiz got 80k on that one day
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Level 88
Apr 21, 2025
Called it :)
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Level 55
Jan 29, 2025
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.
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Level 72
Jan 29, 2025
The first country I got was "France", and it was just a tiny spot. Thanks, quiz, that really narrows it down! ;-D
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Level 48
Jan 29, 2025
Instead of Macedonia it should be North Macedonia.

The three digit code wasn't displayed, but the map pointed north and had Italy on the left. North macedonia in the bottom right.

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Level 33
Jan 29, 2025
too confusing for me
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Level 36
Jan 29, 2025
Nice job, super duper fun
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Level 69
Jan 29, 2025
139 is broken

Edit: So is 268 and 676. None of them seem to work, it's 0/3.

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Level 88
Jan 29, 2025
Broken how?
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Level 44
Jan 29, 2025
I think 3nchiladas' computer is broken...
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Level 49
Jan 30, 2025
North Macedonia has to be added. Right now only Macedonia works which isn't correct anymore, also according to Jetpunks official country list
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Level 29
Jan 31, 2025
This is hard
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Level 38
Jan 31, 2025
Is Venezuela not in 816? Or is it because of a rule I’m not aware of
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Level 37
Feb 1, 2025
So sorry that this is a long one but ,

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)

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Level 38
Feb 4, 2025
Fun Quiz! Vatican City did not appear even though the entirety of Italy (and San Marino) did.
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Level 34
Feb 5, 2025
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.
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Level 62
Mar 6, 2025
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!
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Level 88
Mar 6, 2025
Thanks very much. Glad you like it :)
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Level 57
Mar 6, 2025
I honestly dont think i understand this quiz at all, could i please get a clarification?
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Level 88
Mar 6, 2025
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.
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Level 44
Jun 2, 2025
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.
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Level 88
Jun 2, 2025
That would be too easy.
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Level 55
Mar 13, 2025
Mistake on panel 815 as Venezuela and the Guyanas are not included despite being clearly displayed.

Still a cool quiz nonetheless.

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Level 70
Mar 19, 2025
I can't stop doing this quiz, it never gets boring!
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Level 61
Mar 20, 2025
got a screenshot of the Caribbean. Apparently France (Guadeloupe/Martinique) and Netherlands (ABC Islands) count but USA (Puerto Rico) don't?
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Level 88
Mar 20, 2025
Correct. See the stickied comments at the top.
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Level 45
Mar 26, 2025
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.
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Level 88
Mar 26, 2025
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).
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Level 63
Apr 11, 2025
I put in North Macedonia and it said it was incorrect - it was only looking for Macedonia
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Level 44
Jun 2, 2025
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 ♡.
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Level 88
Jun 2, 2025
Guess larger countries spaced around the map. You should be able to get something within about ten guesses if you guess wisely.
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Level 88
Jun 2, 2025
I usually start with Russia, USA, India, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Congo, France, Australia, Brazil, Italy, South Africa...

You're likely to find that one of them is within the star, and then you can work from there.

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Level 44
Jun 5, 2025
On Quiz 139, Belarus is in the middle of the star, but is not counted and not included in the answers. Otherwise great Quiz.
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Level 88
Jun 5, 2025
I checked it and Belarus is outside the star. Poland is in the middle. Unless something is malfunctioning your end.
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Level 58
Jun 5, 2025
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.
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Level 49
Jun 7, 2025
Most amazing quiz I played for a long time! Thank you!

How many star combinations are there?

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Level 78
Aug 18, 2025
France - Couple of tiny islands

uh...Netherlands - Couple more tiny islands.

I was like wait...what the heck? Turns out i didn't remember my Caribbean islands very well.

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Level 74
Sep 23, 2025
upside down and sideways is not helpful
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Level 41
Oct 19, 2025
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!
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Level 41
Dec 8, 2025
possibly give 10 seconds to spin
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Level 47
Jan 2, 2026
Had no idea what happened the first time lol
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Level 31
Jan 6, 2026
I think in 795 there is a little bit of Armenia in the star
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Level 42
Jan 18, 2026
This is a great quiz!
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Level 88
Jan 18, 2026
Thanks!
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Level 40
Jan 26, 2026
france on 004 is brutal!
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Level 29
Jan 31, 2026
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.
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Level 88
Jan 31, 2026
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.
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Level 68
Mar 26, 2026
Spain on 422 ahhh
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Level 46
Apr 6, 2026
673 Belarus is pretty mean, great quiz
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Level 29
Apr 15, 2026
Nice quiz