Missed Madagascar, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Kazakhstan. For Kosovo and Montenegro I knew something was missing there but couldn’t figure it out. Kazakhstan I literally thought to myself I’ll do that with the other “stans,” and I didn’t. Madagascar just didn’t make it onto my mental map.
I think a good way to do mapless COTW is to keep track of how many countries you'd normally have at a given point, and use it to determine if you missed any before moving on.
first try, carefully treaded through, gave up when i couldnt remember the two countries i had missed (bosnia and croatia), then though id try again just now and 'smashed' through it, with thirteen minutes left, i had one missing. it took 8 minutes to finally, on a whim, type in france out of despiration. I now hate the French
I got stumped at 195 and spent 8 mins just thinking and with 2 to go I finally realized i was missing azerbaijan. Surprised I got it within first try tho
Got 100% first try, but WOW that was stressful. Was sitting on 195 trying to think of which country I missed before remembering Madagascar from the animated movies
Guatemala, Nicaragua, Bahamas, Sierra Leone. Almost forgot Yemen and Oman but I figured them out with a few minutes left. I usually don't look at the map or list anyway but I think knowing I couldn't stressed me out a bit haha
First try, 195/196 forget Fiji yet I SWEAR I typed it in. Next time, took me 16:08, but 196/196....I do it like a lot of folks with a map in my head, I start with Canada work my way through the Americas, jump the Atlantic do Europe and Middle East, then cross the Suez and take care of Africa, then over to Asis proper and Oceania. Problem is when you get to 195 and then have to go through the whole thing, almost forgot Slovenia....fun quiz
Explain to me how the highest percentage guessed (USA 95%) is lower than on the actual quiz (USA 97%), but the lowest percentage (Sao Tome, 75%) is so much higher than the actual quiz (Sao Tome, 25%)
Countries of the World is the most popular quiz on the site so a lot more people have taken it, plus most people would only attempt this quiz once they have a good knowledge of their countries so the scores are higher.
its so funny because with quizzes like these i always focus on all of the smaller/more obscure countries and then end up forgetting the most obvious ones like spain and such!!
My god, I managed to miss out on Dominica and you know why? Because for the first time _ever_ I tried to see if I can abbreviate the Dominican Republic and just write DR. Else it would've been automatic lol
Spent five minute finding the 2 I'd forgotten, but I found you Mauritania and Jamaica! Great companion quiz to the other countries of the world quizzes.
Great quiz. Got all except one then spent the next 5 minutes trying to workout which obscure island nation I had forgotten to no avail. Timer ran out, turned out to be Japan!
I must be the only one to have missed Russia. Also, it was the only one I missed. Went through Asia first and left Russia for Europe only to forget about it when doing Europe.
1. Do the landlocked countries (2 in South America, 12 in Asia, 15 in Europe, 16 in Africa) -> 45 countries
2. Do the island countries (4 in Europe, 6 in Africa, 14 in Oceania (Australia counts as an island country here), 13 in North America, 11 in Asia) -> + 48 countries
-> 93 countries alltogether
3. Trace the coast of the Americas -> + 20 countries
-> 113 countries alltogether
4. Trace the coast of Eurasia and Africa, beginning with russia and go westwards -> + 83 countries (26 countries in Europe, 32 countries in Africa, 25 countries in Asia)
Almost 1st time, missed Ivory Coast (that one was stupid should've followed coast instead of trying to get that part randomely) and Saint Vincent (confused it with St Kitts), guess 2nd time is the charm
terrible with oceania, so its especially heartbreaking that the 6 i missed were actually countries i knew but kept telling myself i guessed lmfao. this is so much fun!!
4 minutes 13 seconds, i think i have done it before in close to 4 min but now i did a lot of typos. for every noob:
I start with islands in oceania totaling 11, then i move through asia until i reach pakistan/stan starting countries (kazakstan, pakistan etc.), the countries should be 38 by then. then do the rest of asia, turkey, malta + cyprus and djibouti + eritrea and the count should be 66. Then africa for a count of 118, then europe for the count of 161 and north america, mid america, south america and then the islands starting from a to b to g to t, then saints.
*Forgets that big ass country and gets 195/196
It's actually almost a challenge to avoid country quizzes, so whether you like to or not, you'll learn them ;)
backwards, forwards, alphabetically, scrambled and mirrored ;)
Spent like 10 minutes trying to think of what I missed only to realize with like a minute and a half left that I had never typed Ivory Coast
in my case I do the americas first, to get 35
then I do Europe to get 80
then Asia to get 128
then Oceania to get 142
and then Africa to get 196
im ukrainian..
193/196
Missed Andorra (makes sense, small country), but how did I forget THAILAND and BANGLADESH, two massive nations?
Botswana
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Paraguay
Bahamas
Bolivia
El Salvador
me forgetting INDIA
if youre from India im so sorry
How could I have forgotten Japan, Kyrgyzstan, and Hungary?
Shame on me :)))
1. Do the landlocked countries (2 in South America, 12 in Asia, 15 in Europe, 16 in Africa) -> 45 countries
2. Do the island countries (4 in Europe, 6 in Africa, 14 in Oceania (Australia counts as an island country here), 13 in North America, 11 in Asia) -> + 48 countries
-> 93 countries alltogether
3. Trace the coast of the Americas -> + 20 countries
-> 113 countries alltogether
4. Trace the coast of Eurasia and Africa, beginning with russia and go westwards -> + 83 countries (26 countries in Europe, 32 countries in Africa, 25 countries in Asia)
-> 196 countries alltogether
Seriously now: doing dozens of times the "Countries of the world", with a map, certainly helped.
Thank you for the quizz.
I start with islands in oceania totaling 11, then i move through asia until i reach pakistan/stan starting countries (kazakstan, pakistan etc.), the countries should be 38 by then. then do the rest of asia, turkey, malta + cyprus and djibouti + eritrea and the count should be 66. Then africa for a count of 118, then europe for the count of 161 and north america, mid america, south america and then the islands starting from a to b to g to t, then saints.
Antigua, barbados, grenada, trinidad, lucia, vincent, kitts.