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[serene]

Ooh, thanks, elisem! I suck at it so far, but I'm getting better.

Place the U.S. states on a map.

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[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Ooh, you are eeeevil.

-J

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I want a countries-of-the-world one, and a provinces-of-canada one, and and and!

[jessypie.livejournal.com]

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!

[ptigris.livejournal.com]

http://www.urgames.com/games/geography-game-usa

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!

*hackcoughwheeze*

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

So great! Thanks. I suck so badly at the Middle East, but I'm boning up. Hope you feel better soon.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

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...

[intenselaura.livejournal.com]

In the Canada version it leaves out Prince Edward Island!

[ptigris.livejournal.com]

No Prob! Glad I could help!

Thanks for the wellwishes. I'm slowly recovering...

[ptigris.livejournal.com]

Gawddamnit!