Find The Mystery Country Using Hints - Randomized!
To start, name any country. Use the colour clues in the map legend to find the mystery country. When you guess the mystery country, the quiz is over - you win!
To address a few questions repeatedly asked in the comments:
- A landmass is any contiguous piece of land, such as Afro-Eurasia, Borneo, Hispaniola, etc.
- Names as in the Countries of the World quiz are used, so the last letter of the USA is S (United States)
- French Guiana is an overseas department or France, not an overseas territory. Therefore France is on both the landmass of the Americas as well as Afro-Eurasia, while it's continent is still Europe
Originally there was a little bit more explanation but that seems to have been removed once this was featured. The quiz works as follows:
- Type any country. The country will show up in one of 12 colours. Say we type China.
- Use the legend on the bottom left of the svg to see what the colour means. For example, China shows up in yellow, meaning the mystery country is on the landmass of Afro-Eurasia, but not in Asia, doesn't start with C, and doesn't end with A.
- Using that info, we type the next country. Let's say we pick the DR Congo, which shows up in black. This means the mystery country is in Africa, doesn't end with O, but starts with D
- We then pick Djibouti, with which the quiz ends as it was the mystery country :)
The instructions are really unclear. It should tell you that the color in the key tells you what the mystery country has in common with the country you typed.
bro I got it in 3, i start this quiz by guessing usa, uk, then uae because it is easy for me to type all of them quickly, it turned out that uae was the correct answer. I got it in only 0:04.
Great quiz ! I'd love it if we could see the correct answer clearly written out when the time runs out, with some smaller countries it's very hard to see what the solution was :)
I guessed Jordan while the answer was Thailand, and jordan was only red, instead of purple as it has the same last letter. otherwise, this is my favourite quiz on this website.
Due to the 10,000 answer limit I can only have 51 possible answers at any given moment, which have an equal chance. I do swap out the possible answers every few months
I enjoy this quiz quite a bit. The answers do not seem all that random, though. Norway, Seychelles, Guinea Bissau, Grenada and Tuvalu come up much too frequently.
Thanks! I can see it when it is a bigger country, it's the small ones that are tough to ID. Also, the color looks a lot like the FL & LA color (to my eyes).
Hmm it should look more like just First Letter when you don't guess it. In any case I'm thinking of turning it grey like when you do guess it, I'll do that some time soon to avoid all the confusion
I love this, but am having troubles with a couple of the colours. I'm colour blind. Is it possible to make the FL and LL more distinct? Just a suggestion, it's pretty hard to navigate, but I understand if it's a lot of work.
I love the way that the countries become different colors based on different factors. My fastest time is actually 5 seconds, as I guessed the USA, which glew red, then I guess Mexico and it was right!
i think I'm going crazy, can you please explain this scenario, i guessed china, got me FL and LL, then i guessed sweden, got me the continent, turns out the country was north macedonia, perhaps you used a different name for china, or another name for north macedonia?
Hmm China should have been cyan for Last Letter and Landmass then (LL & LA), and it's using China and North Macedonia indeed. I'll check to see if my algorithm did something weird there, thanks for letting me know!
Edit: the code is assigning LL & LA to China for that one, not sure what happened. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Also I get Suriname quite often, like 1 in 3 rounds, so I feel like there might be something wrong with how the country is randomized. Might be something to look into
There's only 51 options due to the way the quiz is set up, so countries will reappear sooner than expected. Other than that the randomizer is something I cannot influence :)
I absolutely love this quiz, but the scoring doesn't really make sense at the moment. A win automatically awards you 196/196 or 100% and 5 points, and then you can't improve anymore. It would probably make more sense to base scoring on time or something.
Did it again. First guess, USA. Second guess, Brazil. Third guess, Venezuela. Fourth guess, Columbia. Fifth guess, Guyana. Sixth guess, Bolivia. Seventh guess, Argentina. Win!
This is a fun game but when I lose I often cannot see the correct answer. Some countries are so small, and some colors are close in shade. Can it be improved by a simple text at the end "the correct answer is --____"
can anybody really explain how to do this one, i'm not getting it at all, like what do those colors and codes mean? i just did it again and had kazakhstan in purple, canada in white, egypt in yellow, i just gave up and saw tajikistan in bright green, what am i supposed to do here?
so I figured out that Bosnia and Bulgaria are the best countries as these two complete all possible type of criteria. for there is a country for each criteria if the mystery country is either of these two countries
Absolutely love this one. Figured it out right away--instructions are spot on. I like the short timer feature--I get the answer about 50% of the time, so I it makes you think FAST.
- A landmass is any contiguous piece of land, such as Afro-Eurasia, Borneo, Hispaniola, etc.
- Names as in the Countries of the World quiz are used, so the last letter of the USA is S (United States)
- French Guiana is an overseas department or France, not an overseas territory. Therefore France is on both the landmass of the Americas as well as Afro-Eurasia, while it's continent is still Europe
Hope this helps :)
- Type any country. The country will show up in one of 12 colours. Say we type China.
- Use the legend on the bottom left of the svg to see what the colour means. For example, China shows up in yellow, meaning the mystery country is on the landmass of Afro-Eurasia, but not in Asia, doesn't start with C, and doesn't end with A.
- Using that info, we type the next country. Let's say we pick the DR Congo, which shows up in black. This means the mystery country is in Africa, doesn't end with O, but starts with D
- We then pick Djibouti, with which the quiz ends as it was the mystery country :)
Now I'll go on a run of nothing rights.
Thanks Albania
I replay it so much, but I often get the same answer. Is there a way you can make it so all the 196 countries got the same chance?
Cause i guessed Haiti and it was red so I skipped the Dominican R...
Thanks for the fun game
I give this quiz 5/5 stars!
I think thats pretty good haha
Edit: the code is assigning LL & LA to China for that one, not sure what happened. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Serbia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Slovakia have at least one country that shares each possible colors
France is the best possible country to start with/get, while Vanuatu is the worst.
Second guess: Mexico = win!
second guess: Russia
win
lol
(and I did it in 5 seconds because whenever I get none on Canada I guess Tuvalu xD)
I will stop for a bit so I dont break the streak lol