Random Sequential Countries on the World Map - Hard Version
Name all 196 countries of the World on a map, in a randomly generated order. The answer must correspond to the blue highlighted country. In this harder version, the countries disappear again once you've answered them correctly!
Click the map to zoom!
The progress bar at the bottom shows your progression through the quiz.
The order changes every time you play!
For the smaller countries, an arrow or ring may appear to guide you.
Wow what a quiz! You almost get into a trance lol. I misspelled Solomon Islands near the start and went a little insane trying to think what it was before trying it again. Deserved feature!
Wow! I finished when I thought I still had heap left! Also the circle thing for the Maldives seems to be not as long as it is on other quizzes. That sort of threw me off.
On mobile you might need to scroll left/right a little to see the whole map. Also you may have been zoomed in accidentally, meaning only a small portion of the map would be visible.
I don't understand this at all. I got 0 because it showed a tiny country in what appeared to the the top center of a map, but it wasn't any northern European or Baltic nation. It never told me what it was. Are they just randomly shown without regard to where they lie on a map?
They are in the same position as the normal world map. When you finish the quiz, everything you missed is shown and you can hover on them to see what they were. Since the order is randomized, it means JetPunk doesn't show stats afterwards.
If you started with a small country, perhaps refreshing the page would make this make more sense. This harder version doesn't retain countries on the map after you guess them, so I would recommend doing the original quiz first so you understand the general concept.
Theres this one squarish country in Europe, yet i tried Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City, Malta, Montenegro, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe but yet it wont accept and it wouldnt tell me where it is on the map
sometimes if you click on the empty map the magnified page will stay and distort the world map, then what you think is far North could be just North of the little segment of the map that you clicked on.
Not sure if it is a glitch but I kept entering the correct spelling of 'Maldives' where it was necessary but it wouldn't give me the point. Great quiz though
wow, this one is quite a challenge! i had to give up with 2 left: sierra leone and the maldives. i always typed in maledives with this extra e as it is malediven in german, oops
Finished first try in 23 mins, had 7 left. Without any frame of reference, and not even their shapes, the caribbean and oceania islands were just a guess-game until I got them xP
Would it be possible to have an option to change the background color? staring at -mostly- white screen for so long became a little uncomfortable in the eyes. Maybe a more sepia tone.
Most oceanic countries do have distinguishable shape
About half of the carribean countries are also distinguishable (barely though, like trinidad and tobago is the closest one to mainland south america)
I did confuse the locations of mauritius, comoros, seychelles, and maldives, because they have the same shape in this, however i eventually got them all.
I really should do these types of quizzes in front of an audience. For anyone to complete this at all is quite the feat. Doing so as quickly as I did (I'm a slow typist) makes it that much more impressive. Thanks for taking the time to create such a phenomenal quiz. Truly.
Tried Trinidad and Tobago for about 14 different countries, and it turned out to be my LAST one. Took me a good 20 seconds to remember it existed once i got there.
T&T is actually pretty easy to differentiate - it's a big island right at the southern end of all the Caribbean islands, whose shape you can just about make out without the zoom.
I didn't know it would be every country in the world when I started! I would have saved it for later if I had read description first. That took almost 15 minutes!
They no longer use custom styling, but also more importantly, the stats for them is now relevant. (It's the first step of trying to provide "useful" stats for randomized quizzes). So the stats you see after this quiz (and on the quiz stats page) are all correct and appropriate. Previously they all got jumbled up due to our normal randomizer system, so the results were pretty much even.
Did it with 21:59 remaining (8:01 elapsed) - pretty proud of myself considering I can never keep straight the physical locations of half of those little Caribbean and Oceanian island nations.
I was able to get it, but I had a heck of a time trying to get Maldives. The shape seems off on this map compared to the other ones I'm used to (it's usually more elongated, rather than just a circle).
Unfortunately this is still the "old" JetPunk world map, from before the SVG Update in 2020. So Maldives, Tuvalu, Palau and Kiribati are noticeably different.
Great quiz. One small suggestion...use a different color for the small island countries that have been made visible by an unofficial enclosure containing mostly ocean. This would make it clear that we're not trying to interpret these as shapes of countries. It's not a huge problem, since these enclosures are generally much more rounded in appearance than actual country boundaries, but still it's a relevant distinction.
I thought I was doing so well, and then I spent a full five minutes trying every country in the Balkans (plus some eastern Europe just to be safe) about three times, absolutely losing my mind, only to find out it was Belgium all along. Very great! Had a fun time with this one :-)
I think I typed in Lithuania a solid three times for Belgium. For whatever the reason, my mind just doesn’t recognize the shape of Belgium when looking at the world map.
I had the opposite, I had tried liechtenstein many many times, but it was never it and I really didn't think it had been accepted already. (I tried to check, but obviously there was no list haha). But most likely I had already guessed it but forgotten it.
This was very helpful for learning/remembering some country's shapes. Instead of relying on their neighbours. And also their absolute position on the map instead of relative (some felt much higher or left or right than you would have envisioned them).
So maybe one day I will score well on country quizzes that are just about shape :).
Strangely, the only country I struggled with was Slovakia.
did the quiz in 9:45
yeah i am pro
first try btw
If you started with a small country, perhaps refreshing the page would make this make more sense. This harder version doesn't retain countries on the map after you guess them, so I would recommend doing the original quiz first so you understand the general concept.
Would it be possible to have an option to change the background color? staring at -mostly- white screen for so long became a little uncomfortable in the eyes. Maybe a more sepia tone.
Great quizz, thanks for making it! :D
About half of the carribean countries are also distinguishable (barely though, like trinidad and tobago is the closest one to mainland south america)
I did confuse the locations of mauritius, comoros, seychelles, and maldives, because they have the same shape in this, however i eventually got them all.
Senegal was my last country :D
Tried Trinidad and Tobago for about 14 different countries, and it turned out to be my LAST one. Took me a good 20 seconds to remember it existed once i got there.
So maybe one day I will score well on country quizzes that are just about shape :).
This is one to revisit.
49.9% of people getting 100 is pretty amazing though.