Countries by Borders, Bordering Sea, Capital Proximity, Official Language or Currency in 30 Seconds
To highlight a country type either:
1) its name 2) the name of a neighbour 3) a bordering sea 4) a world capital within 1,000 km of its capital 5) its currency 6) one of its official languages.
I checked the countries I missed initially. In most cases, their currency names are shorter than country names or language names. If you're missing Botswana, Ethiopia, South Korea, Cambodia - this is the trick. I now can complete this 6 out of 10 times.
I think there were a couple limitations on this (Atlantic not counting for Panama but counting for Mexico), but overall I enjoyed it. I ran a program to find the lowest number of letters needed to complete the challenge and got 112 letters with 20 words. On lowest number of words, I found 19 words (113 letters).
Here's my list with the shortest characters:
China
India
Atlantic
Indian
Japan
SouthChina
Euro
Franc
Som
Pula
English
Spanish
Portugese (misspelled but still works :P)
Arabic
Riga
Bangkok
Baku
Juba
Sofia
Bern
Let me know if you find anything shorter! (I initially found a smaller # but it contained words like Thailand and Indian which require Thai and India to also be typed)
you could type NDIAN then go back to the start, add I so that by typing 6 characters (plus home to go to the start of the word would make it 7 I guess) you get all India and Indian answers.
English
French
Spanish
Portugese (u need it for Sao Tomé and East Timor)
Arabic
Atlantic
India
Indian
South China (For Malaysia and Taiwan)
Baltic
Roma
Kiev (Roma+Kiev covers pretty much rest europe)
Euro (For Netherlands, Greece and Cyprus)
Birr (Ethiopia)
Pula (Botswana)
Iran (For Turkey, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Afghanistan)
Japan (For Korea and Japan)
Russia (For Norway, Mongolia, Georgia, Azerbaijan)
Bangkok (For Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia)
Bishkek (For Kyrgyzstan, Tajikiztan and Uzbekistan)
Probably not the shortest way but it works with fast typing. :)
Super amazing quiz and concept, can’t imagine how much work it took. Nominated
Here's my list with the shortest characters:
China
India
Atlantic
Indian
Japan
SouthChina
Euro
Franc
Som
Pula
English
Spanish
Portugese (misspelled but still works :P)
Arabic
Riga
Bangkok
Baku
Juba
Sofia
Bern
Let me know if you find anything shorter! (I initially found a smaller # but it contained words like Thailand and Indian which require Thai and India to also be typed)
China
India
Brunei
Atlantic
Indian
Euro
Franc
Som
Birr
Pula
English
Spanish
Portugese
Arabic
EastChina
Bangkok
Baku
Berlin
Chisinau
you could type NDIAN then go back to the start, add I so that by typing 6 characters (plus home to go to the start of the word would make it 7 I guess) you get all India and Indian answers.
Typing them separately requires 11 characters.
English
Spanish
Arabic
French
Portuguese
Som
Euro
Pula
China
Kenya
Baku
Bangkok
Bucharest
Copenhagen
South China
Atlantic
Bengal
Japan
Indian
English
Spanish
French
Portuguese
Dutch
Arabic
Malay
Euro
Budapest
Bangkok
Russia
USA
India
East China
Uzbek
Uzbekistan
Turkey
Baltic
Iceland
Ethiopia
Tswana
Mauritius
Maldives
Australia
English
French
Brazil
Spanish
Spain
China
Russia
Dollar
Lao
Arabic
also, 196 as the counter was turning to 30 :D i now hate botswana