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#303059 - Mon Apr 03 2006 09:30 AM Fun geography - Europe
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Same sort of level, but this time European countries. Have fun!

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/country_europe_G2_drag-drop.html
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#303060 - Mon Apr 03 2006 09:39 AM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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#303061 - Mon Apr 03 2006 09:49 AM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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Had 91% right (41 out of 45). Again, the tiny countries gave me a hard time. Think I need glasses?

I think the score varies a lot depending on what countries your asked to place first. If you get the big countries out of the way first, there's not much room left for San Marino, Andorra and the likes. But try placing LIechtenstein correctly on a completely empty map!
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#303062 - Mon Apr 03 2006 09:59 AM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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San Marino cost me heaps!

81%..
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#303063 - Mon Apr 03 2006 10:11 AM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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78% this time, not a lot better.
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#303064 - Mon Apr 03 2006 01:42 PM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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cool . I like this kinds of games . Got 96% just messed up the beginning with lichtenstein and san marino

edit to add: found level 6 really hard, but still as fun,

no level 6 was easy compeard to level 8 where you have to rotate the country before placing it, and the it disappears again, so there was nothing to use as reference points


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#303065 - Mon Apr 03 2006 02:19 PM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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Oh wow, I didn't get to messing about beyond the first one.
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#303066 - Mon Apr 03 2006 02:29 PM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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Oh wow, I didn't get to messing about beyond the first one.




comes from having to learn all the euorpean countries (and their capitals) and to place them on the map in 3 grade in school. (not in my norwegian school, but in american british academy in Oman)

but I'll pass on level 9, witch is basically the same as level 8 but now it includes sizing the country up to correct size before placing it on the map

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#303067 - Mon Apr 03 2006 02:39 PM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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You must be wanting something to do!
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#303068 - Mon Apr 03 2006 02:47 PM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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#303069 - Mon Apr 03 2006 02:48 PM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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Well managed an 80 percent but the small states were very hard to place accurately. Even if you get the Vatican city up there where it's supposed to be, it's pretty close.
Andorra and Liechstenstein worked though.

I am the worst at the Eastern European states though. I find those very difficult.

Then again, I'm patting myself on the back for being American and managing that as our statistics aren't terribly good at geography, to say the least!
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#303070 - Mon Apr 03 2006 02:53 PM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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comes from having to learn all the euorpean countries (and their capitals) and to place them on the map in 3 grade in school. (not in my norwegian school, but in american british academy in Oman)




I had to learn all the countries and capitals too, but a lot of the countries on that European map didn't exist as separate countries when I was in school!
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#303071 - Mon Apr 03 2006 02:54 PM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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There, I was careful and got a 93. I'm feeling fine now! whoo hoo. I know the one I botched was Ireland because I just plain wasn't thinking.

Well at level four you have to click on them without outlines and I got a 78..that was hard going. I mean trying for Andorra without the other ones in there is pretty hard.


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#303072 - Mon Apr 03 2006 03:10 PM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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I got all but one right. My life was made harder by getting Austria first. My average inaccuracy was only 3 miles, though.
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#303073 - Mon Apr 03 2006 04:12 PM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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Well, I'm again feeling proud - 38 out of 45. Considering that many of these states did not exist when I was in school, I will allow myself to be happy with that.

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#303074 - Mon Apr 03 2006 08:36 PM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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37/45 - 82% - not bad for a Yank!
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#303075 - Tue Apr 04 2006 11:53 AM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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Well Agony clicking and dragging certainly didn't exist either!
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#303076 - Tue Apr 04 2006 03:07 PM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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Heck, writing with a ball point pen didn't exist then!

Can't seem to get better than 38 right - it's those first few interior countries that get me every time. I'll have to pay more attention to the rivers....

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#303077 - Wed May 03 2006 05:34 AM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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86% first time, 93% on my second go - glad that the big countries came up first though!

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#303078 - Wed May 03 2006 06:42 AM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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89% this time, so not too bad.
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#303079 - Fri May 12 2006 07:51 AM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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41/45 -91% on my first go (I'm european though). Has anyone managed a 45/45?

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#303080 - Fri May 12 2006 08:53 AM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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1st attempt:
    37/45 82% 53 miles 306 seconds
2nd go at it:
    40/45 89% 38 miles 208 seconds
As for an error rate of 3 miles, take bow!

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#303081 - Sat Jul 01 2006 03:20 PM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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I got 93% with a avg error of 41 miles. I got Andorra first and put it to far to the west. The Vatican City I put too far south and Liechtenstein a bit too far to the North. San Marino was easy for me as that is where my Formula 1 racing hero Ayrton Senna fally crashed on 1 May 1994.

Living in the Netherlands we learned about all the European countries but there were far less than now. Then there was Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic and Slovakia), Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia) and the European part of the USSR (Russia, the Baltic States: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the Eastern European States: Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova - not to mention all the Stans in Asia) that now all have broken up into 15 countries.
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#303082 - Sat Jul 01 2006 04:20 PM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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98% but I swear I wuz robbed on Lithuania.
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#303083 - Sun Jul 02 2006 12:21 PM Re: Fun geography - Europe
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Full marks level on 3, didn't do badly until level 8, where you have to rotate them too - 37/45 (82%)

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