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Geography Games
Oct. 10th, 2010 05:01 pmFor the past couple days I have been obsessed with Geography games. I’ve been mainly playing Map Quest and How Well Do You Know Your World.
• Map Quest gives a short amount of time to label as many world countries as possible. Thus far my best is down to 90 countries left to label. I really like this game but sometimes I mess up spelling and I lose a lot of time that way. It probably helps my typing though. Other problems include how small the map is and so when I label enough countries in an area I end up unable to see what I’ve already written. It could be improved is what I’m saying.
• Know Your World is a question game where you are given a location (say, Paris France) and you have to plant a flag there (by clicking a place on the map with your mouse). There’s a timer so you don’t have too long to think and it asks about capitals, other cities and important monuments. I like how it calculates the distance between your flag and where it really is to get your score. The closest I’ve gotten is 14 km. The negative about this game is that the map is so small and there is no easy way to increase the size so that some countries aren’t even visible (like Israel or Qatar, not visible on the map) and you end up having to pick basically just the general area they should be and hope for the best. Despite that this is a pretty fun game. So far my best is level 11 (score to advance 550000), with an IQ of 122 and a final score of 478, 584.
• I found a Map Label Game here where you are given an area and set number of minutes to label as much as you can. It’s actually a nice break after playing against the clock in Map Quest.
( Cut for length. Just a lot of detail on my scores for each of the maps. )
• Map Quest gives a short amount of time to label as many world countries as possible. Thus far my best is down to 90 countries left to label. I really like this game but sometimes I mess up spelling and I lose a lot of time that way. It probably helps my typing though. Other problems include how small the map is and so when I label enough countries in an area I end up unable to see what I’ve already written. It could be improved is what I’m saying.
• Know Your World is a question game where you are given a location (say, Paris France) and you have to plant a flag there (by clicking a place on the map with your mouse). There’s a timer so you don’t have too long to think and it asks about capitals, other cities and important monuments. I like how it calculates the distance between your flag and where it really is to get your score. The closest I’ve gotten is 14 km. The negative about this game is that the map is so small and there is no easy way to increase the size so that some countries aren’t even visible (like Israel or Qatar, not visible on the map) and you end up having to pick basically just the general area they should be and hope for the best. Despite that this is a pretty fun game. So far my best is level 11 (score to advance 550000), with an IQ of 122 and a final score of 478, 584.
• I found a Map Label Game here where you are given an area and set number of minutes to label as much as you can. It’s actually a nice break after playing against the clock in Map Quest.
( Cut for length. Just a lot of detail on my scores for each of the maps. )
