How well do you know US geography?
By vivasuzi
@vivasuzi (4127)
United States
June 26, 2007 11:49am CST
I found this game (link below) last night online and I quickly got addicted! The premise is to place each state where it belongs on the map.... not nearly as easy as it sounds!
I was shocked at how hard it was to place some of the states. Everytime you start over, there are different states that come up first and even though I mostly know the general area (east, south, north, west) that they belong in, I couldn't usually get it right.
Once you have filled in some of the states, it becomes easier to fill in the blanks.
I just played again right now and got the following score:
Score: 88.23 Avg Error: 13 Miles Time: 199 seconds
Try it out and let me know your scores!! Did you find this really hard or really easy??
http://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/fiftystates2.jsp
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5 responses
@vivasuzi (4127)
• United States
6 Jul 07
Cool! Hope your kids like it :) I was surprised too when I was positive that NJ goes here, or LA goes there, and it said WRONG! Not only that, but it was really far away too. If only they had games like this when I was in 6 grade geography - I would have played all the time and aced the tests :)
Now they should make it a little harder and add in "what is the capital" of the states too b/c kids are always quizzed on that.
@joey_matthews (8354)
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26 Jun 07
The Us is an area which I'm pretty rusty on myself.
Being from england I find it to big lol.. Seriously though I know where about 10 major places are and the rest I know but I wouldn't be able to pin point exactly on an unmarked map.
I'd get it all wrong lol
~Joey
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@marmalaide (470)
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25 Jul 07
Thanks for the link! I thought this was really fun. Of course it gets much easier as you go along. My score was 76.24, avg error 62 miles, time 424 seconds. But then I am from the UK so I can't really be expected to do any better than that. I imagine that if there were a map of the UK and you had to place all the different counties on there then Americans wouldn't be very good at that. Not that I would be either. lol.
@tammyr (5945)
• Etowah, Tennessee
25 Jul 07
I have played this before and found I did not know all I thought I did! lol I have never claimed to know a lot about geography, but I thought I knew where all the states were at least!
The first ones are very hard to get EXACTLY where they go
This time I got
score 73.48
avg error 25 miles
419 seconds
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@kelly60 (4546)
• United States
27 Jun 07
This is really great. There are some states that are really easy, but some that are a lot harder. I didn't do too bad I guess, but not as well as you. I'll have to try it again tomorrow and see if I can do better next time when I'm not so tired.
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@vivasuzi (4127)
• United States
6 Jul 07
Well I played a few times before posting my score :) Maybe with a few more plays you would get the same. I agree some states are a breeze (like hawaii! haha) Basically you can't go wrong with Texas, Florida, Michigan, but all the rest, well they get tough!
