Oh man, THOSE are the kind of geography helpers I need! I am so bad at world geography & am also pretty embarrassed that I don't know a whole lot about Canada or Mexico.
I was surprised at how well I did on the states one, though! On my first try I got 94%, 6 miles, 448 seconds, 47/50 perfect. The embarrassing part, though, is that I screwed up my placement of Pennsylvania (my home state!) enough that it didn't count as perfect, but it was one of the first states I got and I put its chimney further west on Lake Erie than it really is. Oops. I figured I made up for that one when they gave me Kansas (a state I know very little about) before they had given me ANY of its neighboring states, and I still dropped it close enough to count as perfect!
A couple of years ago I was brushing up on my US geography and the state capitals, and I guess it stuck pretty well! My motivation was that my then-boyfriend's (much, much) younger brother was learning the state capitals in school and liked to show off by showing how he knew more than the adults did - so I studied up!
Ooh, fun! I got 48 right, having tried to place both PA and OK too far south. (If either Texas or Kansas had come up before Oklahoma, I would have got it right. I don't know what I was thinking with PA.)
I think this might be more entertaining/challenging if it didn't tell you the name of the state, but just handed you its outline and told you to place it. Well, there'd be that Wyoming/Colorado problem...
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Date: 2005-01-22 06:11 pm (UTC)-J
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Date: 2005-01-22 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-22 07:33 pm (UTC)I was surprised at how well I did on the states one, though! On my first try I got 94%, 6 miles, 448 seconds, 47/50 perfect. The embarrassing part, though, is that I screwed up my placement of Pennsylvania (my home state!) enough that it didn't count as perfect, but it was one of the first states I got and I put its chimney further west on Lake Erie than it really is. Oops. I figured I made up for that one when they gave me Kansas (a state I know very little about) before they had given me ANY of its neighboring states, and I still dropped it close enough to count as perfect!
A couple of years ago I was brushing up on my US geography and the state capitals, and I guess it stuck pretty well! My motivation was that my then-boyfriend's (much, much) younger brother was learning the state capitals in school and liked to show off by showing how he knew more than the adults did - so I studied up!
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Date: 2005-01-23 12:41 am (UTC)This site has all the countries of the world, and in my opinion, is a better learning tool, albeit geared for younger audiences.... I liked it!
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Date: 2005-01-23 01:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-24 01:17 am (UTC)Thanks for the wellwishes. I'm slowly recovering...
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Date: 2005-01-23 04:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-24 01:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-23 01:49 am (UTC)I think this might be more entertaining/challenging if it didn't tell you the name of the state, but just handed you its outline and told you to place it. Well, there'd be that Wyoming/Colorado problem...