Nearly got it in less than ten minutes but messed up Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Turkmenistan at the very end though. Still happy and had 19 minutes and 49 seconds remaining
Oh my god!!!! This is most challenging. Got blasted by the tiny counties in Oceania and the Caribbean. kept forgetting where i was in the world. i think this is going to take a while to master. Excellent quiz!!
Holy cow, what a quiz!! Took it all the way down to 38 seconds because I kept typing Grenadines instead of Grenada on the last island, haha, but finally discovered my error in time. Way too stressful for my poor heart.
nearly all correct, 1 missing because i think the quiz doesnt accept "trinidad" for "trinidad and tobago"? usually id be like oh ok the quiz needs the full name, but you can successfully give "bosnia" for "bosnia and herzegovina" so idk
Just did the quiz now, Andorra wasn't showing an arrow for me either. Might be a browser thing (I use Firefox), but the arrows for all the other small countries did work.
This one was fun. With the Caribbean and Pacific Island countries I had to guess, but I managed to get everything with 12 minutes to spare. Very good quiz.
The stats seem odd. I wouldn't have expected 2/3 of people to get 100%. And I thought more people would drop out before 196.
Maybe it has to do with resets. I don't know how many hits a daily quiz gets, but I suspect it's not enough to collect 259,000 attempts, even with multiple days featured.
I think most people who visit jp daily know 196 countries. I'd just expect more distribution between #5-196 correct.
And the bottom countries are all in the Caribbean. I would've guessed Oceania is less-familiar.
There are 88k takes since last reset, however only the first take of each user counts as the stats. This is the first time it has been on the front page since the reset.
This would mean that most people finding it are JetPunk regulars, and so know 196/196.
Regarding the lowest-guessed, the Caribbean is harder for those who know all countries, because you have to guess the correct one, and most don't know the order / placement of countries in the Caribbean.
Is the map distorted, or different than the one typically used? It felt like things weren't shaped quite right, or weren't where I expected them to be. And the zoom is always frustrating for me. I understand only so much can be done.
Yes, the map is purposely inflated a little (in particular remove some of the atlantic ocean) to try and increase the possible visibility of the smallest countries.
The zoom feature is disorienting to me, and often doesn't zoom where I want it to. I lose perspective/context. (The map isn't loaded for me atm, but for example, I'll click CAR, but get a zoomed-section centered on Niger, and CAR is way over to one side). But that seems to be a limitation of the site.
Yeah so that's because when we zoom, we stay within the bounds of the map. For example clicking near the corner requires clicking right in the corner otherwise it doesn't go to the right position.
I should probably look to see if there's something I can do about that, because others have complained on this point too on other quizzes across JetPunk.
I hate this quiz, I don't just automatically know where a blue circle is somewhere over the Pacific, esp with no context clues. Also the shapes of the countries are too small.
I'm quite a geography nerd and even I had to guess some of these, as it's impossible to know which exact island it is without at least some of the mainland nations there. The islands should have been circle later on in the quiz.
196/196 in 22:14, the quiz throws about 80% of the small nations, islands and micronations at the start. It was hard to tell which ones had me pulling my hair out.
Took 15 minutes. This was incredibly hard as the scale seemed to put me off. But I enjoyed it. Central Asia was a sticking point as I cannot recognise those shapes. But a fun quiz, thanks a lot.
dominica has the beautiful hot spring, wonderful beaches and nice people. but i hate to see it as one of the first countries i have to guess without context or sufficient zoom
Done!!!! It is soooooooo painful to just list all of the islands in Oceania and North America!!!!! "It is like: what is it? Ok, let's see: Tuvalu, Tonga Nauru, Vanuatu, Samo, Fiji... Here you go - it is Fiji!"
It would have been a huge help to get an "already guessed" warning! This would hav been especially true with the small island nations of the Caribbean and Pacific - they were too hard to keep track of on the map.
This is absolutely my favorite quiz on the internet. Thank you for this! Only issue is that my browser frequently hangs while playing this game. Firefox 122.0.1 / Ubuntu Jammy.
I would love to see a version of this with a visible map. If someone else has found a quiz like that, I'd love to know, but I've been looking everywhere on here and Sporcle and haven't found one :(
I have actually tried to make that previously, and technically it works but it's more difficult than this quiz because it's harder to see where the country is that's selected (because all of them are visible).
I have been practicing since one month, still sometimes some Islands countries trick me. Initially I used to struggle a lot, but now I can complete the quiz within the 12-15 mins time frame 😊 I also know all 196 capitals now. Thank you Stewert for this quiz 🙌🏻 and a huge thanks to Jetpunk team. Cheers! 🥳
Plzz shout out...
Like 20 seconds slower than Arp2600.
The hardest part was guessing the countries/islands in either the caribean sea, and in the pacific.
Quite easy, though I do love maps and flags (plus Harry Potter/Star Wars).
Great quiz, any more like it?
First, complete the quiz in 4.75 seconds.
Second, collect your 5/5 marks.
Third, post wry comment about how you must do better next time and
Four, move on to another quiz.
You do realise you don't have to sit there twiddling your thumbs for the remaining 29 minutes and 55.25 seconds don't you?
Thank you Stewart, great fun as always.
I've done this quiz before and never had this problem- maybe a new glitch?
Maybe it has to do with resets. I don't know how many hits a daily quiz gets, but I suspect it's not enough to collect 259,000 attempts, even with multiple days featured.
I think most people who visit jp daily know 196 countries. I'd just expect more distribution between #5-196 correct.
And the bottom countries are all in the Caribbean. I would've guessed Oceania is less-familiar.
This would mean that most people finding it are JetPunk regulars, and so know 196/196.
Regarding the lowest-guessed, the Caribbean is harder for those who know all countries, because you have to guess the correct one, and most don't know the order / placement of countries in the Caribbean.
Fun quiz regardless, ty for the series.
What's the issue with the zoom?
I should probably look to see if there's something I can do about that, because others have complained on this point too on other quizzes across JetPunk.
Thank you for the feedback though!
Thanks!
Did it with 18 minutes to spare though lol so maybe one with a stricter time limit would be cool