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A quiz game that tests your knowledge of cities and places across the world.
http://minijuegos.com/juegos/html/index.php?id=5974
I got to level 8 out of 10, but only got 26000 points in that level. You
need 30000 to go to the next level.
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Gail Shaw a écrit :
> A quiz game that tests your knowledge of cities and places across the world.
>
> http://minijuegos.com/juegos/html/index.php?id=5974
>
> I got to level 8 out of 10, but only got 26000 points in that level. You
> need 30000 to go to the next level.
>
>
>
Nice way to study something which can easily be dull.
On second try, I reached level 9 (and level 3 only my on first try :-)
Thibaut
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> A quiz game that tests your knowledge of cities and places across the world.
>
> http://minijuegos.com/juegos/html/index.php?id=5974
Well... I know nothing about anything, so...
Actually, this game is kinda random. There are entire countries in
Europe which are too tiny to see on this map.
If it asks, say, "where is the capital of Spain?", all you really gotta
do is click on Spain and you can't possibly be too far wrong. On the
other hand, "Russia" is about 70% of the land surface of Eath [and looks
even bigger in this particular projection], so good luck with that one!
Similarly, if it asks you for... oh... *any* place in England, just
click on England. The cursor is bigger than the whole damn country, so
there's not much possibility of aiming.
Would be nice if you could zoom in and out - and the time limits were
make looser accordingly. I think it would also be useful if you at least
got points for being on the correct size of a national border [since
they're marked on the map] and lost points for being on the wrong side
of it.
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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
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> Similarly, if it asks you for... oh... *any* place in England, just
> click on England. The cursor is bigger than the whole damn country, so
> there's not much possibility of aiming.
Seeing as I managed 10 km from Edinburgh for 1 question, and the difference
in score between 100 and 500 is large, not really.
How far did you get?
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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> If it asks, say, "where is the capital of Spain?", all you really gotta
> do is click on Spain and you can't possibly be too far wrong.
Of course, that assumes you know where Spain is....
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:20:32 +0200, "Gail Shaw"
<initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
>
>"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
>news:4853a613$1@news.povray.org...
>
>> Similarly, if it asks you for... oh... *any* place in England, just
>> click on England. The cursor is bigger than the whole damn country, so
>> there's not much possibility of aiming.
>
>Seeing as I managed 10 km from Edinburgh for 1 question, and the difference
>in score between 100 and 500 is large, not really.
>
>How far did you get?
>
>
I think that I agree with Andrew about the scale. I was over 100 km
from London and I live there ;)
I scored a total of 108719 and got to level 4
--
Regards
Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:20:32 +0200, "Gail Shaw"
> <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
>
>> "Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
>> news:4853a613$1@news.povray.org...
>>
>>> Similarly, if it asks you for... oh... *any* place in England, just
>>> click on England. The cursor is bigger than the whole damn country, so
>>> there's not much possibility of aiming.
>> Seeing as I managed 10 km from Edinburgh for 1 question, and the difference
>> in score between 100 and 500 is large, not really.
>>
>> How far did you get?
>>
>>
> I think that I agree with Andrew about the scale. I was over 100 km
> from London and I live there ;)
>
> I scored a total of 108719 and got to level 4
193842 Final level 6 on my first try - but I've got a hangover - I was
watching Holland beat France last night with a bunch of friends in The
Sports Bar :-)
John
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world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:17:13 +0100, Doctor John <doc### [at] gmailcom>
wrote:
>193842 Final level 6 on my first try - but I've got a hangover - I was
>watching Holland beat France last night with a bunch of friends in The
>Sports Bar :-)
Try it sober :)
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Stephen
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"Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote in message
news:48538a5c@news.povray.org...
>A quiz game that tests your knowledge of cities and places across
>the world.
>
> http://minijuegos.com/juegos/html/index.php?id=5974
>
> I got to level 8 out of 10, but only got 26000 points in that
> level. You
> need 30000 to go to the next level.
>
Level 10 334,145 pts
halway through level 11
The allowed radius of error diminshes each level
Within that circle some points can be got.
I went for speed as much as accuracy - could have got more
accuracy if I slowed down. No idea how much time is allowed
per level - I'm sure thatg dimishes with progress.
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"Stephen" <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote in message
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> >
> I think that I agree with Andrew about the scale. I was over 100 km
> from London and I live there ;)
I was considering anything under 100km to be spot on. Sure it could be
bigger. Doesn't make it easy though. Harder if anything.
On some of the later levels, just finding the country's a challenge. Let
alone the city or point within the country
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:49:34 +0200, "Gail Shaw"
<initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
>
>"Stephen" <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote in message
>news:2bb754d4vut9pqgroisfst3bcrgprnjavl@4ax.com...
>> >
>> I think that I agree with Andrew about the scale. I was over 100 km
>> from London and I live there ;)
>
>I was considering anything under 100km to be spot on. Sure it could be
>bigger. Doesn't make it easy though. Harder if anything.
>On some of the later levels, just finding the country's a challenge. Let
>alone the city or point within the country
>
I got Jo'burg and Cape town mixed up also Vancouver and Toronto even
after using Vancouver as a base in my job before last :(
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Stephen
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> A quiz game that tests your knowledge of cities and places across the world.
>
> http://minijuegos.com/juegos/html/index.php?id=5974
>
> I got to level 8 out of 10, but only got 26000 points in that level. You
> need 30000 to go to the next level.
Got to level 11 but no further.
Total 445229
Score in Level 11: 43960 (need 55000)
I played the game some months ago and didn't do near as well back then.
I'm sure I can do better in terms of the overall score (made some dumb
mistakes in the earlier levels because I was trying to go too fast) -
not sure I can make it to level 12, though. Even getting to 11 may have
been a fluke. As Andrew suggested, I for the most part knew where a lot
of the countries were and just clicked randomly in that region.
I tried to cheat. I agree that the map/scale is too small. So I tried
to edit the HTML to make it bigger - by saving the file to the HD.
However, it didn't work - the game only works from specific domains (I
guess they didn't want people stealing their games and putting it on
their site).
--
Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
/\ /\ /\ /
/ \/ \ u e e n / \/ a w a z
>>>>>>mue### [at] nawazorg<<<<<<
anl
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> A quiz game that tests your knowledge of cities and places across the world.
>
> http://minijuegos.com/juegos/html/index.php?id=5974
>
> I got to level 8 out of 10, but only got 26000 points in that level. You
> need 30000 to go to the next level.
>
>
>
Fun 'test'
I got to Level 8 also.
Interesting what you 'know' without realizing it. When's the last time
I actually thought about where Perth, Australia is? Yet I snapped to the
west coast of the continent w/o thinking.
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Jim Charter wrote:
> Fun 'test'
Not really - unless you *enjoy* loosing, that is...
> Interesting what you 'know' without realizing it.
I wrote a long post one this once - I forget where now.
For example, how many "well-known" animals can you name in a few
minutes? The list turns out to be surprisingly extensive...
> When's the last time
> I actually thought about where Perth, Australia is? Yet I snapped to the
> west coast of the continent w/o thinking.
Psh. ALL Austalian civilisation is on the coast somewhere - nobody is
insane enough to live in the desert interior... ;-)
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:20:56 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull>
wrote:
> Austalian civilisation
Is that not antipodal or a contradiction in terms :-)
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Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:20:32 +0200, "Gail Shaw"
> <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
>
>> "Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
>> news:4853a613$1@news.povray.org...
>>
>>> Similarly, if it asks you for... oh... *any* place in England, just
>>> click on England. The cursor is bigger than the whole damn country, so
>>> there's not much possibility of aiming.
>> Seeing as I managed 10 km from Edinburgh for 1 question, and the difference
>> in score between 100 and 500 is large, not really.
>>
>> How far did you get?
>>
>>
> I think that I agree with Andrew about the scale. I was over 100 km
> from London and I live there ;)
Seconded, 100+ from Amsterdam. I was closest for Riga in Latvia about 45
kilometers. Guess where I am going on monday ;)
>
> I scored a total of 108719 and got to level 4
level 10, 41xxxx points
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"Stephen" <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> a écrit dans le message de news:
058854hvq3neoepcvtmk5nsi7at0qvrp5i@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:20:56 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull>
> wrote:
>
>> Austalian civilisation
>
> Is that not antipodal or a contradiction in terms :-)
An oxymoron :-)
Marc
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:11:04 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:
>> I scored a total of 108719 and got to level 4
>level 10, 41xxxx points
Show off :-)
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Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:11:04 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom>
> wrote:
>
>>> I scored a total of 108719 and got to level 4
>> level 10, 41xxxx points
>
> Show off :-)
both pan and mueen claim to have got to level 11. (Ok, I am sure I could
get there too in my second try, so I won't attempt it. Besides I have to
pack my suitcase.)
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andrel wrote:
> both pan and mueen claim to have got to level 11.
"Yes, but you see, *these* maps go to eleven!"
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Helpful housekeeping hints:
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before putting them in the washing machine.
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score: 478,166
Final Level: 11
Traveler IQ: 122
--
H²
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>> I think that I agree with Andrew about the scale. I was over 100 km
>> from London and I live there ;)
> Seconded, 100+ from Amsterdam. I was closest for Riga in Latvia about 45
> kilometers. Guess where I am going on monday ;)
Here's a point worth noting...
This appears to be some kind of cylindrical projection, and such
projections distort distances at extreme lattitudes. So it's probably
"harder" to accurately hit a place that's near the equator, because it's
scaled smaller.
--
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>> Austalian civilisation
>
> Is that not antipodal or a contradiction in terms :-)
http://www.bash.org/?262417
Sorry... ;-)
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:42:07 +0200, "m_a_r_c"
<jac### [at] wanadoofr> wrote:
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>"Stephen" <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> a écrit dans le message de news:
>058854hvq3neoepcvtmk5nsi7at0qvrp5i@4ax.com...
>> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:20:56 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Austalian civilisation
>>
>> Is that not antipodal or a contradiction in terms :-)
>An oxymoron :-)
>
That's no way to speak about them ;)
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Stephen
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On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:27:48 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull>
wrote:
>>> Austalian civilisation
>>
>> Is that not antipodal or a contradiction in terms :-)
>
>http://www.bash.org/?262417
>
>Sorry... ;-)
LOL
I hope Chris isn't watching :-)
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Stephen
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"Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
> "Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
> news:4853a613$1@news.povray.org...
>
> > If it asks, say, "where is the capital of Spain?", all you really gotta
> > do is click on Spain and you can't possibly be too far wrong.
>
> Of course, that assumes you know where Spain is....
It is the piece of land that surrounds Gibraltar.
B. Gimeno
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>> If it asks, say, "where is the capital of Spain?", all you really gotta
>> do is click on Spain and you can't possibly be too far wrong.
>
> Of course, that assumes you know where Spain is....
...which is a much simpler task than knowing where the capital of Spain
is. ;-)
--
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> http://www.bash.org/?262417
Reminds me of a Brit filling out the passport paperwork to visit Sydney,
and he gets to the line asking if you've ever been convicted of a
felony, and he asks "Hey, is that still required?"
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> This appears to be some kind of cylindrical projection
More precisely, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection
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On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:34:08 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
wrote:
>Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> http://www.bash.org/?262417
>
>Reminds me of a Brit filling out the passport paperwork to visit Sydney,
>and he gets to the line asking if you've ever been convicted of a
>felony, and he asks "Hey, is that still required?"
LOL
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Stephen
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Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> This appears to be some kind of cylindrical projection
>
> More precisely, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection
Ah. I thought it was Miller...
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> A quiz game that tests your knowledge of cities and places across the world.
>
> http://minijuegos.com/juegos/html/index.php?id=5974
>
> I got to level 8 out of 10, but only got 26000 points in that level. You
> need 30000 to go to the next level.
Very good fun! 1st attempt, level 10, 355,000 points etc etc. I'm going
to play some more!
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Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Very good fun! 1st attempt, level 10, 355,000 points etc etc. I'm going
> to play some more!
Yeah, yeah, alright. So what if I gave up after finally reaching level
2? Maybe I got bored. :-P
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Bill Pragnell wrote:
>
>> Very good fun! 1st attempt, level 10, 355,000 points etc etc. I'm
>> going to play some more!
>
> Yeah, yeah, alright. So what if I gave up after finally reaching level
> 2? Maybe I got bored. :-P
Embarrassingly, I did progressively worse on my two subsequent attempts.
And some of the same answers came up, too :-(
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