19/20. I was guessing what the second carribean island was. (St. Kitts and Nevis) right when I was finishing the correct answer --> st. kitt- TIMERS UPPPPPPP :PPPPP wow lol
Mine was very Africa-centred, Sudan, South Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Gabon, Sao Tome, Ghana and Togo all in one quiz! More than half...
But the odds of getting any country 3 times in a row, if you play 3 games, is 19%, if my calculations are correct. And this applies to any sequence of 3 games, so if you play 6 games it will most likely happen (contains 4 sequences)
Maybe it was a coincidence or maybe that's how the system works: I had both Dominica and Dominican Republic (which I got both from typing Dominica) as well as Sudan and South Sudan. Would be interesting if it always generates it that way and asks for connected names like both North + South Korea or both Congos. Or Niger and Nigeria? Great quiz anyway.
You mean you had Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan? Or you had all the -stan countries that you knew or could remember? Very unlikely.
All 7? Around 1 in 10 million. Although every country left out of it increases the probability tenfold. So if you really got 6 stan countries, that's 1 in 1 million, which, since this quiz has >1 million plays, would be likely to have happened
Yeah, this is great, but I sat there watching my time run out with one left because I couldn't see luxembourg. Even after it ended, I had to look at the list to see what I missed. Still couldn't see it on the map. Need to be more noticeable please.
Me too because I can't be bothered to learn the locations? Except Nauru and Palau, which I sort of know, because of the Australian refugee scandal in the news a few years ago. And Tuvalu, because the stars on their flag are in the same configuration as the islands, which is just next level flag design lol
I don't think this map isn't precise enough to pick out the smaller nations in the eastern Caribbean - St Vincent, Grenada, St Lucia and the French islands of Martinique and Guadalupe can all fall in the same circle.
Ohhh. It’s because Quizmaster advice to submit all the quizzes, and this quiz that I submit, is not ready, because I thinked that I was going to lose my unsent quizzes.
I got Liechtenstein and Austria in the same round which is kinda bad because the Austria dot overshadowed the Liechtenstein in my opinion but still good.
There's 317 country borders in the world. That's an average of roughly 1.5 per country. If we round up and assume every country borders 2 others then:
Given we're choosing 20 random countries here, the chance none of them share a border would be about 54%. So even with this very liberal and rough approach, we see that half the time bordering countries should show up.
However, now let's account for the 40 countries without borders, so we get 156 countries with borders. And now our % becomes (assuming 4 / 20 countries are borderless) 16.8%. So actually even with these liberal benefits (in your favour) we get that 1 in 6 times you play this quiz should have all borderless countries.
In reality, you'd probably be looking at more like 1 in 20 times given if you got Russia, China or France that immediately removes 10+ countries.
Overall: this quiz is truly random, and humans don't think true randomness is random at all.
To elaborate on the last point, if you toss a coin 100 times, would you expect 50 heads and 50 tails? On average, yes. However, you'd also expect a string of heads or tails lasting 5 or more tosses, getting HTHTHTHT... etc. would be very unrandom!
These comments interested me a lot, So I wrote a blog on the chance that you should get two bordering countries. Spoiler alert: Stewart's estimate was very, very close
Fun Fact: Apple had to unrandomize their shuffle button in Music, because people thought it wasn't random. So they made it seem more random but making it not random. People have an idea of what's random and forget that random can also include things that don't seem random.
no oceanian countries somehow, pretty lucky (got all 20 in 0:43)
Luxembourg Russia Belgium Republic of the Congo Afghanistan Georgia Egypt Colombia Antigua and Barbuda Jordan Yemen Kazakhstan Dominica Mozambique Nepal Greece Haiti Botswana Laos Angola
Could "Czech Republic" be added as a correct response for Czechia? From what I can find, while the country is known as Czechia in common parlance, it is still the Czech Republic in an official capacity. This isn't quite the same as Swaziland/Eswatini where the former is completely removed.
Adrenaline kills my motor skills if I wait until the end.
I always end up doing the NevisAntiguaStKittsBarbuda typathon.
1 of my favorite colors!!!!!
It never accepts the answer then says I have it right, and to top it, marks it as France!
Given we're choosing 20 random countries here, the chance none of them share a border would be about 54%. So even with this very liberal and rough approach, we see that half the time bordering countries should show up.
However, now let's account for the 40 countries without borders, so we get 156 countries with borders. And now our % becomes (assuming 4 / 20 countries are borderless) 16.8%. So actually even with these liberal benefits (in your favour) we get that 1 in 6 times you play this quiz should have all borderless countries.
In reality, you'd probably be looking at more like 1 in 20 times given if you got Russia, China or France that immediately removes 10+ countries.
Overall: this quiz is truly random, and humans don't think true randomness is random at all.
1. Brazil
2. Canada
3. New Zealand
4. Italy
5. Russia
6. Ethiopia
7. India
8. South Africa
9. Spain
10. Poland
11. Japan
12. Switzerland
13. D.R. Congo
14. Mexico
15. Indonesia
16 Turkey
17. Saudi Arabia
And the hardest 3:
18. Vanuatu
19. Nauru
20. Trinidad and what it is Tobago?
Luxembourg Russia Belgium Republic of the Congo Afghanistan Georgia Egypt Colombia Antigua and Barbuda Jordan Yemen Kazakhstan Dominica Mozambique Nepal Greece Haiti Botswana Laos Angola
Monaco,Andorra Dominica St Lucia Switzerland Morocco Seychelles Malawi
Cuba Haiti East Timor ROK SaoTome Mongolia Saudi Arabia Egypt Angola Slovakia Mexico
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And in fact this quiz still uses Czech Republic even!