Author Topic: Void Related Matter - Geography Game (Read 9582 times)

CarolinaStro · « **on:** February 14, 2008, 04:26:59 pm »

Not sure if this one has been posted here in the past. Pretty fun little geography game that I ran across today(fun as opposed to working anyways). Not too hard till level 10ish (out of 12). Not too sharp on Africa...

Scored a 415850, lvl 10, IQ of 116 my first time through. Probably will go back and try it again later.

Have fun...
http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq

Limey · « **Reply #1 on:** February 14, 2008, 04:36:47 pm »

Fun game. Crapped out at level 7, needing 37,500 points to move on I scored 37,459. Missing Santiago, Chile by 5,000Km didn't help...

Waldo · « **Reply #2 on:** February 14, 2008, 05:15:21 pm »

Level 6, 179157

tophfar · « **Reply #3 on:** February 14, 2008, 05:21:02 pm »

Level 8, 274,something

chuck · « **Reply #4 on:** February 14, 2008, 06:08:53 pm »

This is a great game. I usually get all the way through it or real close. What fucks me up are the tiny island countries in the Pacific. I can guess wrong on one of those and be 10k miles off.

Lurch · « **Reply #5 on:** February 14, 2008, 06:33:00 pm »

I feel like one of those idiots on the street in the Leno skit. Back to World Golf Tour for me.

moriartp · « **Reply #6 on:** February 14, 2008, 06:40:05 pm »

Fantastic game. I can't seem to get past level 10, but that was a magnificent way to kill time.

Duman · « **Reply #7 on:** February 14, 2008, 10:33:22 pm »

Made it to level 8 was closest to Kuwait City 86 KM

chuck · « **Reply #8 on:** February 14, 2008, 11:44:02 pm »

Quote from: Limey on February 14, 2008, 04:36:47 pm

Missing Santiago, Chile by 5,000Km didn't help...

How the hell did you do that, by the way? Chile is that skinny little son of a bitch way yonder over on the Pacific coast of South America. Look for the long, skinny country. Can't miss it. Close your left eye, stick out your tongue and tap the cursor right in the middle of that motherscratcher and you should be within 100 km of it.

Now someone tell me where the fuck Vanuatu is.

My favorite is when they ask for some obscure city in one of those god forsaken Balkan countries. Yeah, dude, like I know where the fuck Podgorica Montenegro is. Just find what used to be Yugoslavia and click somewhere up in all that mess and whaddaya know, you're just 120 km away from good old Podgorica!

Greg M · « **Reply #9 on:** February 15, 2008, 12:58:32 am »

I like. Got to level 11. Level 12's got to be insane. I hate the islands and obscure places in Australia.

Craig · « **Reply #10 on:** February 15, 2008, 01:15:41 am »

It told me to find Mali and I thought it was an island in the South Pacific. Turns out it's in West Africa. I missed by 15,000 km and the game immediately sent me to down to the minors.

DVauthrin · « **Reply #11 on:** February 15, 2008, 02:15:53 am »

Quote from: Craig on February 15, 2008, 01:15:41 am

It told me to find Mali and I thought it was an island in the South Pacific. Turns out it's in West Africa. I missed by 15,000 km and the game immediately sent me to down to the minors.

Maybe if you show the necessary improvement you can earn a 2nd chance at stardom.

Lefty · « **Reply #12 on:** February 15, 2008, 05:52:49 am »

Quote from: Greg M on February 15, 2008, 12:58:32 am

I like. Got to level 11. Level 12's got to be insane. I hate the islands and obscure places in Australia.

No kidding; had no clue on a couple in Australia, a couple in Russia (one I picked in the West, it was way over on the Kamchatka Pen), and 2 in Norway of all places. I'll try it again later.

remy · « **Reply #13 on:** February 15, 2008, 06:47:10 am »

Almost identical to Waldo... level 6, 177558. My closest was Baghdad for some reason, 99km.

Limey · « **Reply #14 on:** February 15, 2008, 07:26:46 am »

Quote from: chuck on February 14, 2008, 11:44:02 pm

How the hell did you do that, by the way? Chile is that skinny little son of a bitch way yonder over on the Pacific coast of South America. Look for the long, skinny country. Can't miss it. Close your left eye, stick out your tongue and tap the cursor right in the middle of that motherscratcher and you should be within 100 km of it.

It's all easy from your armchair. I clicked somewhere in Panama by mistake.

Quote from: chuck on February 14, 2008, 11:44:02 pm

Now someone tell me where the fuck Vanuatu is.

Over by the board, turning the letters.

SaltyParker · « **Reply #15 on:** February 15, 2008, 08:16:10 am »

Level 11 is rough. I can't get beyond 44/55, 122
Yeah, level 12 must be a real bitch.

Duman · « **Reply #16 on:** February 15, 2008, 08:19:29 am »

My 11 year old daughter is out of school today. I put her on the USA map quiz. She had an IQ of 98 first time. This is a neat little game.

VirtualBob · « **Reply #17 on:** February 15, 2008, 09:10:25 am »

I made it to level 11 too ... overcoming a miss-click on level 10 where I hit antarctical instead of someplace i actually knew in africa. Small cities in large countries (like Australia) make it tough.

Total score 501,990 traveler IQ 125.

Is it possible to be addicted after one "hit"?

Limey · « **Reply #18 on:** February 15, 2008, 09:13:47 am »

Quote from: VirtualBob on February 15, 2008, 09:10:25 am

Small cities in large countries (like Australia) make it tough.

All Australian cities, save Adelaide and Perth, are on the east coast. Ayres rock is just a little west of dead centre. Santiago is not in Australia.

VirtualBob · « **Reply #19 on:** February 15, 2008, 09:15:59 am »

Quote from: Limey on February 15, 2008, 09:13:47 am

All Australian cities, save Adelaide and Perth, are on the east coast. Ayres rock is just a little west of dead centre. Santiago is not in Australia.

And Santiago is not particularly small, either. Probably the first clue, though, was that it was listed as "Santiago, Chile"

And as for the "east coast" question, Port Arthur turns out to be in Tasmania instead of northern Queensland (I was thinking Fort Douglas or something, I guess) ... that's a pretty fur piece.

VirtualBob · « **Reply #20 on:** February 15, 2008, 09:35:15 am »

OK ... Second try and I got to level 12. WOW. Who'd a thunk that there was an island in Norway at about 75 degrees south lattitude? That and a brain cramp on Brunei left me with about 47000 and a total score of 569,413, IQ of 132.

I gotta go to work. :-(

Limey · « **Reply #21 on:** February 15, 2008, 09:35:28 am »

A colleague of mine just breezed through to level 12. It helps that he's English, grew up in Africa and Australia, has since lived in Canada and the US, and is a geography-savant. He got fucked over by a Norwegian Island that's just off the north shore of Antarctica - biggest miss I've ever seen! Just under 13,000Km. He failed to complete level 12 but amassed 525k, 127 IQ.

Poor fucker isn't going to get any work done today.

Limey · « **Reply #22 on:** February 15, 2008, 09:44:02 am »

Quote from: VirtualBob on February 15, 2008, 09:35:15 am

OK ... Second try and I got to level 12. WOW. Who'd a thunk that there was an island in Norway at about 75 degrees south lattitude? That and a brain cramp on Brunei left me with about 47000 and a total score of 569,413, IQ of 132.

I gotta go to work. :-(

Quote from: Lauren Caitlyn Upton

I personally believe that...some people out there in our nation don't have maps.

Seems that, despite the subsequent ramblings and everything like such as, she might have been right!

austro · « **Reply #23 on:** February 15, 2008, 09:49:21 am »

Quote from: Limey on February 15, 2008, 09:44:02 am

Seems that, despite the subsequent ramblings and everything like such as, she might have been right!

Blind ... sow ... acorn ...

I tried this game last night and got to level 10, but then I made myself stop because I could see I was going to become addicted and it would cut into my Desktop Tower Defense time.

chuck · « **Reply #24 on:** February 15, 2008, 10:05:06 am »

I personally believe that all US Americans should play this game so that they will know that the Norway is in the Antarctica.

MusicMan · « **Reply #25 on:** February 15, 2008, 10:08:32 am »

386,779; IQ 113 (level 10)

Africa kills me.

Arky Vaughan · « **Reply #26 on:** February 15, 2008, 10:08:37 am »

Quote from: SaltyParker on February 15, 2008, 08:16:10 am

Level 11 is rough. I can't get beyond 44/55, 122
Yeah, level 12 must be a real bitch.

Awesome game. I just got to level 12 (535,136, Traveler IQ 128). It's a bunch of cities you never heard of and can't pronounce in Russia. So even if you get the country right, you can still be off by thousands of kilometers.

MusicMan · « **Reply #27 on:** February 15, 2008, 10:09:28 am »

BTW... should I be concerned that my closest was 34 km for Fenway Park?

Limey · « **Reply #28 on:** February 15, 2008, 10:11:49 am »

Quote from: MusicMan on February 15, 2008, 10:09:28 am

BTW... should I be concerned that my closest was 34 km for Fenway Park?

I missed Easter Island by 87Km. I shit you not. I knew it was somewhere in the Pacific...

austro · « **Reply #29 on:** February 15, 2008, 10:12:40 am »

Quote from: MusicMan on February 15, 2008, 10:09:28 am

BTW... should I be concerned that my closest was 34 km for Fenway Park?

Nope, you should be honored. My closest was something like 45 km for Old Faithful.

MusicMan · « **Reply #30 on:** February 15, 2008, 10:13:09 am »

Quote from: Limey on February 15, 2008, 10:11:49 am

I missed Easter Island by 87Km. I shit you not. I knew it was somewhere in the Pacific...

Coming within 50km of the Galapagos Islands felt good.

Craig · « **Reply #31 on:** February 15, 2008, 10:15:52 am »

Part of my problem is that I have a huge monitor, and with such a high resolution the stupid map is about the size of a postage stamp. It's hard to pinpoint the small places. Trying to find Easter Island really fucked me too.

Craig · « **Reply #32 on:** February 15, 2008, 10:17:43 am »

Quote from: Limey on February 15, 2008, 10:11:49 am

I missed Easter Island by 87Km. I shit you not. I knew it was somewhere in the Pacific...

I missed stupid Easter Island by at least a day, because I'm pretty sure I was all the way across the International Dateline.

chuck · « **Reply #33 on:** February 15, 2008, 10:37:08 am »

Quote from: Craig on February 15, 2008, 10:17:43 am

I missed stupid Easter Island by at least a day, because I'm pretty sure I was all the way across the International Dateline.

Well, make sure you come back in time to join us for the Friday beer thread this afternoon.

Limey · « **Reply #34 on:** February 15, 2008, 10:41:28 am »

Quote from: Craig on February 15, 2008, 10:15:52 am

Part of my problem is that I have a huge monitor, and with such a high resolution the stupid map is about the size of a postage stamp. It's hard to pinpoint the small places. Trying to find Easter Island really fucked me too.

Can't you just change your monitors resolution? Sacrificing everything else you do for bragging rights in this game is a small price to pay.

drew corleone · « **Reply #35 on:** February 15, 2008, 10:55:22 am »

Dammit. Missed going to Level 9 by 173 points.

Limey · « **Reply #36 on:** February 15, 2008, 11:01:24 am »

Got to level 10 then floundered horribly. 371k, 111 IQ.

VirtualBob · « **Reply #37 on:** February 15, 2008, 11:08:45 am »

Quote from: VirtualBob on February 15, 2008, 09:35:15 am

OK ... Second try and I got to level 12. WOW. Who'd a thunk that there was an island in Norway at about 75 degrees south lattitude? That and a brain cramp on Brunei left me with about 47000 and a total score of 569,413, IQ of 132.

I gotta go to work. :-(

OK ... Break in work and I got sucked back in. Still couldn't get past level 12 on my third try, but I did improve to 590,425 and IQ of 134.

Jacksonian · « **Reply #38 on:** February 15, 2008, 11:21:22 am »

Quote from: Limey on February 15, 2008, 11:01:24 am

Got to level 10 then floundered horribly. 371k, 111 IQ.

Level 10 stops me, 401.5k, 114 IQ, but I came within 6k of St. Petersburg.

VirtualBob · « **Reply #39 on:** February 15, 2008, 11:28:04 am »

Quote from: VirtualBob on February 15, 2008, 11:08:45 am

OK ... Break in work and I got sucked back in. Still couldn't get past level 12 on my third try, but I did improve to 590,425 and IQ of 134.

4th time is the charm ... I passed level 12 (in spite of putting a french canadian island in the carribean) and ended with 608,296 and an IQ of 136.

Now I need to clear all all the links from my browser and never go back!

Jacksonian · « **Reply #40 on:** February 15, 2008, 11:30:15 am »

Quote from: VirtualBob on February 15, 2008, 11:28:04 am

4th time is the charm ... I passed level 12 (in spite of putting a french canadian island in the carribean) and ended with 608,296 and an IQ of 136.

Now I need to clear all all the links from my browser and never go back!

So if any of us wants to fuck with you we just need to keep this thread near the top? How long can you resist?

Greg M · « **Reply #41 on:** February 15, 2008, 11:34:23 am »

Quote from: Limey on February 15, 2008, 09:13:47 am

All Australian cities, save Adelaide and Perth, are on the east coast. Ayres rock is just a little west of dead centre. Santiago is not in Australia.

Major cities and Ayres Rock are cake. Those Australian islands by Indonesia threw me for a loop as well as a couple of places in the north.

CarolinaStro · « **Reply #42 on:** February 15, 2008, 12:01:22 pm »

Quote from: VirtualBob on February 15, 2008, 11:28:04 am

4th time is the charm ... I passed level 12 (in spite of putting a french canadian island in the carribean) and ended with 608,296 and an IQ of 136.

You da the man. I finally played it a 2nd and 3rd time and cannot get past lvl 11. Anything east of the Urals in Russia is screwing me up.

Arky Vaughan · « **Reply #43 on:** February 15, 2008, 12:31:28 pm »

Quote from: VirtualBob on February 15, 2008, 11:28:04 am

4th time is the charm ... I passed level 12 (in spite of putting a french canadian island in the carribean) and ended with 608,296 and an IQ of 136.

Now I need to clear all all the links from my browser and never go back!

That's awesome. Keep going!

Noe · « **Reply #44 on:** February 15, 2008, 12:43:57 pm »

First time, got to level 10 and then bombed! I screwed up on the Asian major cities. I loved that the feedback I kept getting was how great a human being I was for clicking so quickly. Now I think I was too smitten by that feedback that I didn't take my time when it got harder.

I blame me for being seduced by the affirmation.

Greg M · « **Reply #45 on:** February 15, 2008, 01:47:36 pm »

Finished level 12 with a score of 568,250. Finally, I can get on with my day...

Gizzmonic · « **Reply #46 on:** February 15, 2008, 02:40:10 pm »

Man, you guys are good...I can only get to level 6.

This game made me realize that I know fuck-all about African geography.

I did hit Liechtenstein square on the nose though, only 22 km away.

dirty steve · « **Reply #47 on:** February 15, 2008, 03:05:25 pm »

crapped out on level 8 and 277K.
got to level 6 the first time but had a couple misclicks on the laptop.

point and click devices make it easier.

strosrays · « **Reply #48 on:** February 15, 2008, 03:22:41 pm »

Quote from: MusicMan on February 15, 2008, 10:08:32 am

386,779; IQ 113 (level 10)

Africa kills me.

Me, too. I was afraid to admit my inexcusable ignorance of the geopolitical boundaries of that continent for fear I'd end up in a Jason Whitlock column some kind of way.

If nothing else, I will be forever indebted to this game for learning where the fuck East Timor is. After putting it on the west coast of (you guessed it) Africa about 7 times, I finally got it straight. Also, when the fuck did Brunei change its name? And calling Kenya "O.D.G.C.K." or whatever is bullshit. As well as "San Juan, Caribbean." I knew where that one was, but I could picture some poor bastard trying to figure out where "Caribbean", the country, is.

Level 11 is the best I can do. And I still don't know where Vanautu is.

Oh, my closest click was 5 km from somewhere in Turmenistan. Totally by chance. The only former USSR countries I know for sure are Belarus and the Baltic countries. All those Stans look the same to me.

Arky Vaughan · « **Reply #49 on:** February 15, 2008, 03:26:51 pm »

Quote from: strosrays on February 15, 2008, 03:22:41 pm

Me, too. I was afraid to admit my inexcusable ignorance of the geopolitical boundaries of that continent for fear I'd end up in a Jason Whitlock column some kind of way.

If nothing else, I will be forever indebted to this game for learning where the fuck East Timor is. After putting it on the west coast of (you guessed it) Africa about 7 times, I finally got it straight. Also, when the fuck did Brunei change its name? And calling Kenya "O.D.G.C.K." or whatever is bullshit. As well as "San Juan, Caribbean." I knew where that one was, but I could picture some poor bastard trying to figure out where "Caribbean", the country, is.

Level 11 is the best I can do. And I still don't know where Vanautu is.

Oh, my closest click was 5 km from somewhere in Turmenistan. Totally by chance. The only former USSR countries I know for sure are Belarus and the Baltic countries. All those Stans look the same to me.

There's also Pyongyang, DPRK.

Jacksonian · « **Reply #50 on:** February 15, 2008, 03:36:45 pm »

With this being a Summer Olympic year, try the flags of the world geography game. I am Oceania's bitch.

Taras Bulba · « **Reply #51 on:** February 15, 2008, 03:44:55 pm »

Level 10. I blame it on the CFISD and masturbation.

VirtualBob · « **Reply #52 on:** February 15, 2008, 04:34:05 pm »

Quote from: Jacksonian on February 15, 2008, 11:30:15 am

So if any of us wants to fuck with you we just need to keep this thread near the top? How long can you resist?

Damn! This thing is addictive. Finished level 12 again with 627,220 and an IQ of 138. I missed Easter Island by a day and still can't keep that french canadian island out of the carribean. I ran into a bunch of brand new ones this time, though. And only missed Edinburgh Castle by 2KM.

Jacksonian · « **Reply #53 on:** February 15, 2008, 04:36:56 pm »

Quote from: VirtualBob on February 15, 2008, 04:34:05 pm

Damn! This thing is addictive. Finished level 12 again with 627,220 and an IQ of 138. I missed Easter Island by a day and still can't keep that french canadian island out of the carribean. I ran into a bunch of brand new ones this time, though. And only missed Edinburgh Castle by 2KM.

You resisted 5 hours.

VirtualBob · « **Reply #54 on:** February 15, 2008, 04:37:19 pm »

Quote from: strosrays on February 15, 2008, 03:22:41 pm

Level 11 is the best I can do. And I still don't know where Vanautu is.

north of New Zealand ... I changed planes there one time. It was like landing inside a prison courtyard, but you could hear the surf outside. The submachineguns served to discourage exploration, though.

VirtualBob · « **Reply #55 on:** February 15, 2008, 04:38:16 pm »

Quote from: Jacksonian on February 15, 2008, 04:36:56 pm

You resisted 5 hours.

Those hooks on your avatar are looking more and more like an evil grin!

Limey · « **Reply #56 on:** February 15, 2008, 04:38:48 pm »

Quote from: VirtualBob on February 15, 2008, 04:37:19 pm

I changed planes there one time. It was like landing inside a prison courtyard, but you could hear the surf outside. The submachineguns served to discourage exploration, though.

What is GITMO?

VirtualBob · « **Reply #57 on:** February 15, 2008, 04:39:59 pm »

Quote from: Limey on February 15, 2008, 04:38:48 pm

What is GITMO?

wrong hemisphere ... plus, they speak french (sort of) in Vanuatu.

subnuclear · « **Reply #58 on:** February 16, 2008, 06:55:39 am »

Quote from: Taras Bulba on February 15, 2008, 03:44:55 pm

Level 10. I blame it on the CFISD and masturbation.

I'm stuck there too and for the same sad reasons.

Duman · « **Reply #59 on:** February 18, 2008, 07:29:58 am »

Quote from: Jacksonian on February 15, 2008, 03:36:45 pm

With this being a Summer Olympic year, try the flags of the world geography game. I am Oceania's bitch.

Me too, I have made it past one time and then you get Africa. Man does that make you feel stupid when they start showing flags of African nations and you are just randomly clicking. One even had the freakin name of the country on the flag and I still missed it (granted it was a small island off the eastern coast of Africa)

I wasted too much time this weekend playing this game.

Author Topic: Void Related Matter - Geography Game (Read 9582 times)

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