How well do you know your world?

• Jerrold
  November 19th, 2007 at 11:04 am

  Super fun! Thanks for sharing.

• Justin
  November 19th, 2007 at 11:10 am

  Very cool game! And you can’t really cheat at it either. I lost as level 10 too.

• Jerrold
  November 19th, 2007 at 11:17 am

  Level 10 is nearly impossible to beat.

• sparge
  November 19th, 2007 at 11:27 am

  I made it to level 11. My strategy was to click as fast as possible in the general area of the location… I didn’t really pay attention to the scores to see whether time spent pinpointing the spot was worth it in terms of points. My guess is no.

  There’s a 2-player game that’s almost identical and has been around for a while: Geosense

• Jack H
  November 19th, 2007 at 11:40 am

  I got 447,000 on level 11 which wasn’t enough to get to level 12 (you need 55,000)

• Jerrold
  November 19th, 2007 at 11:54 am

  Your total score has nothing to do with advancing in the 10th and 11th rounds. It’s your round score that needs to be near perfect to advance.

• j.
  November 19th, 2007 at 1:14 pm

  570365… Last question lvl12 is Larak Island/Iran

• L
  November 19th, 2007 at 2:27 pm

  43,788… darn it!

• L
  November 19th, 2007 at 2:48 pm

  On Level 10, I mean. Not total…

• Zach
  November 19th, 2007 at 3:08 pm

  581,599

  Russia kills me when I get to level 11. I think I’ve been to 12 once.

  What is the closest you have ever been to a target? I got 4 km once.

• Peter
  November 19th, 2007 at 4:07 pm

  339,574, level 10. I am such a stupid American about African geography. d’oh!

• Geographic-Al
  November 19th, 2007 at 5:33 pm

  I got to Level 11 several times but it’s a nightmare of Russian gulag towns, independent African states and Pacific islands

• samantha
  November 19th, 2007 at 6:09 pm

  i’ve been stuck on level ten for about 3 weeks. damnit!

• Ant
  November 19th, 2007 at 6:16 pm

  Fun game indeed.

  I failed badly on my first attempt (didn’t pass level 1 — forgot to record the score), but did better with my second attempt since I understood how the game work (time limits always mess me up!). I ended at level 3 with 19,159 points on World Capitals (easy). My final score was 60,913 with traveler intelligence quotient (IQ) of 80. I used to be decent at geography back in middle/junior high school.

• Justin
  November 19th, 2007 at 6:16 pm

  As far as which is better speed or location. Location is worth thousands of points where as speed is only worth hundreds. So, unless insta clicking gives you more than I realize, it’s better to be accurate than fast.

  So how close have any of you guys gotten to the exact spot of a place? I got to 16 km from Osaka, Japan.

• Zach
  November 19th, 2007 at 7:20 pm

  Level 12 is evil. I’ve gotten Bouvet Island, Norway a few times. Where would you click? Anywhere near here:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouvet_island

• Beth
  November 19th, 2007 at 8:40 pm

  390,274–failed at level 11.

• Jerse
  November 19th, 2007 at 9:26 pm

  The closest I got was 2km by Edinburgh…

• Theresa
  November 19th, 2007 at 9:44 pm

  345,215 level 10. Not bad for an American.

• Chris
  November 20th, 2007 at 12:30 am

  If you’re on http://www.facebook.com that game is there, with comparisons w/ your friends.

  524368 for me ;p
  Old CCCP countries are quite hard.

• pfelelep
  November 20th, 2007 at 9:13 am

  for sure the most interesting game I’ve played for years!

  (and I must admit, I reaaly have to improve my geographic knowledge)

• SecretSoul
  November 20th, 2007 at 11:07 am

  3944343, Level 10

  I got 21 km from Budapest, Hungary.

• swallowtail
  November 20th, 2007 at 12:09 pm

  Thank you, oh thank you, for uncovering this game. Shite like this sure beats, say, bejeweled.
  Sadly, If I were to introduce this to my fellow twenty something friends, they would fail terribly.

• Steve
  November 20th, 2007 at 2:10 pm

  Level 11. Closest I got was 50km. Tough to be exact on that map!

• Liz
  November 20th, 2007 at 6:14 pm

  I usually get to level 10 or 11, once got to level 12. Including Bouvet Island was mean. Closest I’ve been was 19 km from Ulaanbataar, Mongolia. (?!?!)

• Ashley
  November 20th, 2007 at 6:38 pm

  I got 558,219 pts on level 12, but levels 11 and 12 are pretty hard because of the oversea possessions and islands. They also stick in insignificant places like Nundle, Australia (population: 257, entry on wikipedia: 91 words). That’s not so bad when you’re dealing with a country like Italy that only takes up a few pixels, but guessing where a minor town in Australia, Russia, China, or Brazil is could put you thousands of km wide of the mark.

• Dan
  November 20th, 2007 at 6:48 pm

  I beat it

• Sundown Dial
  November 20th, 2007 at 8:07 pm

  384,497 for me! I took the strategy to click as fast as possible, trading time for accuracy. It earned me a few reminders that we were dealing with planet earth but I got through level 10 at least.

• Eli
  December 5th, 2007 at 12:09 am

  480,535 points
  3rd day playing this though
  lvl 11
  IQ 123

• Eli
  December 6th, 2007 at 12:39 am

  567,023 points
  level 12
  4th day playing so i know everything by now, it gets crazy with like ittogoogargoti, greenland

• Eli
  December 6th, 2007 at 12:58 am

  587,323 points
  level 12 about 20 minutes after my last post, i was off on two Russias and one st something in canada
  i didnt check my IQ. probably 130ish

• Rikyshi
  April 7th, 2008 at 10:31 am

  My personal record is 629.683…traveler IQ: 139!

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