Country Logic Puzzle by Scambigol #28

Follow instructions carefully!

1) No country appears more than once
2) In each row adjacent countries border each other
3) To properly complete the quiz you must never write down a country if you're not 100% sure it's the one that goes there!

4) 'Unconnected' countries have been greyed out
5) All other countries are belong to a horizontal path; the shortest paths consist of 3 countries, the longest of 23
6) Horizontal paths longer than 8 go across more than one row
7) Cell borders: purple highlights first and last countries of paths; for longer paths starting from the 8th country blue means coastal, brown means landlocked
8) Paths are sorted by alphabetical order of first country
9) In all paths the first country is alphabetically before the last country
10) The two doubly landlocked answers are in neighbouring columns
11) Six cells have a green border: take their length in letters and you will get a sequence of consecutive numbers with no repetitions (eg 2-3-4-5-6-7)
Country names are standard JetPunk names
Overseas borders and maritime lake borders are considered
To avoid whammies type 'igeria' and add N at the start if you want to write Nigeria avoiding Niger; similarly type 'uineabissau' and add G (to avoid Guinea and GB type-ins); also be careful about Ukraine/Uk etc
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Path lengths: 3 3 3 4 5 5 6 8 14 15 19 23 23 23
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Andorra
France
Monaco
 
 
 
 
 
z
z
8
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bangladesh
Myanmar
Laos
Vietnam
Cambodia
Thailand
Malaysia
Brunei
z
z
5
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bhutan
India
Nepal
China
Mongolia
 
 
 
z
z
15
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cameroon
Equatorial
Guinea
Gabon
Republic of the
Congo
Democratic Republic
of the Congo
Angola
Namibia
Botswana
z
z
Zimbabwe
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Eswatini
South Africa
Lesotho
 
z
z
23
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Denmark
Canada
United States
Mexico
Belize
Guatemala
El Salvador
Honduras
z
z
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama
Colombia
Venezuela
Guyana
Suriname
Brazil
z
z
Uruguay
Argentina
Paraguay
Bolivia
Chile
Peru
Ecuador
 
z
z
3
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
East Timor
Indonesia
Papua New
Guinea
 
 
 
 
 
z
z
23
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Estonia
Latvia
Belarus
Lithuania
Poland
Ukraine
Moldova
Romania
z
z
Serbia
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Montenegro
Croatia
Slovenia
Hungary
Slovakia
Czech Republic
z
z
Austria
Liechtenstein
Switzerland
Germany
Luxembourg
Belgium
Netherlands
 
z
z
6
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Finland
Sweden
Norway
Russia
North Korea
South Korea
 
 
z
z
14
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gambia
Senegal
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea
Sierra Leone
Liberia
Ivory Coast
Ghana
z
z
Burkina Faso
Mali
Niger
Nigeria
Benin
Togo
 
 
z
z
19
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Greece
Albania
Kosovo
North
Macedonia
Bulgaria
Turkey
Georgia
Armenia
z
z
Azerbaijan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Afghanistan
Pakistan
z
z
Iran
Iraq
Kuwait
 
 
 
 
 
z
z
4
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ireland
United Kingdom
Spain
Portugal
 
 
 
 
z
z
23
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lebanon
Syria
Jordan
Israel
Egypt
Sudan
Eritrea
Djibouti
z
z
Ethiopia
Somalia
Kenya
Tanzania
Burundi
Rwanda
Uganda
South Sudan
z
z
Central African
Republic
Chad
Libya
Tunisia
Algeria
Morocco
Mauritania
 
z
z
5
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Oman
United Arab
Emirates
 
 
 
z
z
3
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
San Marino
Italy
Vatican City
 
 
 
 
 
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z
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10 Comments
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Level 62
May 13, 2025
This is a real mega-puzzle - don't know how to do it, but I'll have a think and come back to it later. Got 3/154 on my first attempt.

All your bases are belong to us :-)

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Level 62
May 13, 2025
What a miasma. I presume you have to play it dozens of times and just use trial and error.
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Level 80
May 13, 2025
oh no! you are not supposed to use trial and error!! you can solve it without taking any risks (unless I made some mistakes in designing it but hopefully I haven't)
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Level 62
May 13, 2025
Probably my brain is just too feeble. I appreciate your effort and thought in making these, you know. Will keep persevering...
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Level 62
May 13, 2025
I found the sequence with Indonesia in it. Now I can find 10 other countries which only border one country. So they must go in the purple boxes, but there are hundreds of possible permutations, right? Ireland, say - there are loads of boxes that could go in, and you'd have to compute a lot of different scenarios. Seems like I'd need a computer program to do it.
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Level 80
May 14, 2025
Good job! Italy has a similar sequence to Indonesia. Ireland must go to Uk which must then go to Spain, you cant leave Portugal on its own so from Spain you go to Portugal and thats a 4 country path. Having used Spain, Andorra can only connect to France and the same goes for Monaco so thats another sequence. You can use alphabetical order to place them
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Level 62
May 14, 2025
Ah, that's true - thanks for the tip.
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Level 52
Nov 10, 2025
Wow. I just completed this, and boy was it a challenge. Great work! One thing I will say, you might wanna check the part with Mauritania and Morocco. I think those two countries might be interchangeable.
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Level 80
Nov 16, 2025
Thanks! Argh you are right about Mauritania and Morocco thanks for spotting that... hopefully I can think of something 'simple' to take care of that. By the way if you want to share your 'solution' I will be happy to compare it with mine, I am curious to see if there are different/simpler ways of solving this
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Level 80
Nov 25, 2025
I changed the green hints so the Mauritania/Morocco ambiguity should be fixed now. Thanks again!