HOw well do you know the location of the 50 states? This is a drag and drop game. Non-US paople can also play of course, I scored 58 so don't think that is too bad for a person who has never studied US geography.

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html

Getting better, scored 80% this time.

I wonder if there is a similar game for the UK, it would be interesting to know if we can place our counties, I know they have changed a lot since I was at school and did British geography.

Nice site, Sue! I surprised myself by scoring 74%. Apologies to any New Hampshirians here.. I only missed by about 1000 miles

An Aussie site would not be much of a challenge- we only have 6 states, and two territories.:)

Ren found it.

Although I tried it a couple of times (and they change the order!) I think that I mostly had problems with the same states - those rectangles are a right pain! Coastal states and those by lakes or borders tend to be easier. Also I tend to know that some are definitely east and some southern, but heck, Oregon, Nebraska and the Dakotas definitely got me, and Idaho - and more.

I just looked for one on the UK and didn't find one but I did find a map of counties and to be honest I think my score would be awful these days.

84% on the first try. Just those tiny states that I couldn't place.

I am wondering how many Yanks are game to post their scores...

Or do they not fancy being beaten but a Dutchy, a Pom and a convict? .. hehe

Well, I'm quite pleased with myself - I got 82% and the average error was only 49 miles. Mostly, with the first ten or so, I was in the right area, but out by 100 miles or so. Once I had a few in place to gauge by, I did OK.

wow, what a cool game. I had to study the american states in 3. grade learnt all of them in a song in alphabetical order, and amazingly I still remember it.

Got 94% on my first try and average error 19 miles. This was fun.

I'm glad they had the state names, though - otherwise, the square ones would have been my undoing.

84% - not bad for us backwater Yorkshire gimmers. The only one I got totally wrong was Rhode Island. I tried to put it where New Jersey is.

I only scored 82%, it's those darn square states that always get me!

86%. New England did me in nicely...

oops 70% but only a 90miles average error so I'm happy enough with that. How small are some of those states? How does anyone fit in Delaware?

Yeah...I dropped Delaware somehow. It took me ten minutes to find it!

If you think Delaware (why do I want to sing here?) is small, what about some of the European countries?

I got a 92, but the margin was about thirty miles off. This is because I had them pretty close but let go before they were right on the dot.
wonder if someone's done the French departements?

I got a 94 with an average miss of about ten miles. I did really well on the New England states, but some of them were hard to get exactly in place. I got Wyoming early on and I wasn't sure exactly where in the void it went because there were no outside borders. For the most part, I could probably name the states if I had to look at only their shapes. Wyoming and Colorado are easily mistaken.