The only solution I find is that overtired is a genius. Brillant idea, as always (but more again this time, in my opinion). Congratulations, and nominated, sure!
Not every person's brain is image-focused. My, for example, is sound-focused. I never benefit from these "memory techniques" that tell you to imagine some pictures instead of words. Hell, I often do the opposite and try to remember picutres as words because I can't remember many visual details. If police asked me to help with a photofit picture of anybody, I would be of 0 help.
Got 100% on the first go and normally I suck in these memory games haha. Incredible how much better my mind works when it comes to geography knowledge and memorising maps.
I feel like an absolute idiot, I did this quiz 8 times before I got them all. The kicker: I got 14/15 on every single other try. One country always somehow slipped my mind.
Zooming in is annoying and doesn't bring anything to the concept of the quiz. If you can't use a dot for microstates, then just exclude them. Ironically, we can perfectly see island states like Nauru and Seychelles, but then countries like Djibouti are virtually invisible without zooming in. Surely a dot should be the minimum size for all countries whether on sea or land?
Only got 12 the first time because I didn't bother counting and missed the smaller countries. The second time I spent more time looking for the smaller countries than studying the map.
Great quiz, although I could do better I enjoy having a go. I find that after I do the quiz about 3 times I am keeping too much of the other quizzes in my memory box :o)
Edit: That's actually as bit of a challenge. I only missed Belize, which I didn't have time to notice.