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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/432929
It may sound a little condescending, or like I’m bragging about something as elementary as putting on my pants or brushing my teeth, but I wouldn’t say that this thread is entirely unjustified either considering how so many adults are (almost) clueless about the subject.
It took me only 0.5–1 hour(s) to master this, and any frustration that I had was minor.
(If you are experiencing graphical glitches like giant text boxes, see here for advice.)
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56 attempts. Mixed up Zambia and Zimbabwe and had a brain fart in DR Kongo.
I can do almost all countries, most flags and plenty of capitals. Can't remember fuck about Pacific Islands though.
Once you get used to them the islands are actually the easy ones, though. Cabo Verde and Sao Tome = west African island nations. Seychelles = northern Indian ocean nation. Comoros = west of Madagascar, also it being in the Arab league is something that always helps me remember it specifically somehow. Mauritius = east of Madagascar (edit) replied to wrong comment
so im embarassingly bad
first try i think i had like 10 skips, 160+ attempts
6 tries later no skips 100 attempts.
im adding this to my "trivia and brain games" bookmarks folder. going to be a daily for me now
"trivia and brain games" bookmarks folder
Mind sharing some of these bookmarks with us?
So obviously there are NYT games but their division that handles those is on strike at the moment so no playing those until they get their contract.NYT Games employees have ended their strike.- Bandle is a music guessing game. Uses midi files of the songs and you start with drums and try to guess. There's also a mobile app for this one.
- Food Guessr. Guess what the cuisine is. Hint: if it looks bland and flavorless its from central Europe. We seriously don't hate enough on Belgian cuisine.
- Guess the movie from single frames. Hard but fun for cinema nerds. I play this with my partner.
- This one is cursed and unhinged and I love it. Unironically, you should play this with your partner if you can. Guess the two actors/actresses who faces are merged.
- Spelling game. I do it even in the age of spellcheck.
- Newer one I'm trying. Guess ten things in the category. Sometimes this one infuriates me.
- Context to. This one is pretty hard. Figure out the word of the day. Uses a custom AI thingy to figure out how strongly your guesses relate to the word.
- Wordle, but a lot harder.
- Travle_Challenge. A decent one for in the same vein as OPs game.
seconding @sadschmuck@hexbear.net's request for those bookmarks. i just got a new wfh job so i have tons of downtime with access to a computer
Death to America
If you are on Linux, there is also the program
kgeographyto practice geography(Thanks for the reminder, I really should practice again...)
One of our most beloved comrades dropping some entertainment for our dear Hexbears in this most trying of times, Post-Dunk/Dredge lockdown.
I've been feeling it, folks, not gonna lie, been a last couple of boring days without our homie, UlyssesT keeping us up to date with King Bazinga's post-election euphoria, lib mask-off meltdowns, and other golden turds from the dredge pile.
I just poke around on google earth and street view when I can't sleep. Helpful for general geography knowledge and for reminding you how big and beautiful the world is
I've had the placement of all the African countries more or less down for years, I might even be able to name all the countries of Africa off the top of my head just by visualizing a map of the continent in my mind's eye. I made two mistakes in the linked quiz, however, namely mixing up Mauritius and Seychelles, and mixing up Mali and Mauritania — for the former mistake I should've known better, for the latter mistake, that was just because I was tired and going on autopilot. In any case I did manage to locate all 54 countries in 56 attempts with no skips.
I can also identify all the African national flags, and could probably draw them all from memory, too. I can also identify all the national coats of arms of Africa, but I definitely could not draw those from memory.
Testing myself on African capitals, which I used to have 100% memorized, I could only correctly identify two-thirds of them now. It probably won't take much for me to relearn the capitals I'm weak on, since for a lot of the names that I couldn't remember off the top of my head, those names did sound familiar once the answers were revealed.
I also quizzed myself on African national anthems as performed by the US Navy Band.
Anthems I can identify
- DRC (Debout, congolais / Arise, Congolese)
- Kenya (Ee mungu nguvu yetu / O God of All Creation)
- Algeria (Qassaman / We Pledge — The lyrics to this anthem I've heard were first written in blood on a prison wall)
- Sierra Leone (High We Exalt Thee, Realm of the Free)
- Senegal (Pincez tous vos koras, frappez le balafons / Everyone strum your koras, strike the balafons)
- Djibouti (Djibouti)
- Eritrea (Ertra, Ertra, Ertra / Eritrea, Eritrea, Eritrea)
- Ethiopia (Wodefit Gesgeshi, Widd Inate Ityoppya / March Forth, Dear Mother Ethiopia)
- South Africa / Tanzania / Zambia (All use the melody of "Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika" — South Africa uses this melody followed by the melody of "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika")
- Gabon (La Concorde / The Concord)
- Madagascar (Ry Tanindrazanay Malala ô / O Beloved Land of Our Ancestors)
- Morocco (Cherifian Anthem)
- Mauritania (the 1960-2017 anthem — the post-2017 anthem sounds a bit like the 20th Century Fox theme)
- Burkina Faso (Une Seule Nuit / One Single Night — this anthem was actually written by Sankara himself!)
- Namibia (Namibia, Land of the Brave)
- South Sudan (South Sudan Oyee)
- Niger (L'Honneur de la Patrie / The Honor of the Fatherland)
- Egypt (Bilady, Bilady, Bilady / Homeland, Homeland, Homeland)
- Liberia (All Hail, Liberia, Hail!)
Anthems I should've been able to identify but didn't:
- Eswatini (Nkulunkulu Mnikati wetibusiso temaSwati / God, Giver of Blessings to the Swazi — this is the only national anthem in the world with click consonants in its lyrics, but you can't exactly hear that in an instrumental rendition...)
- Chad (La Tchadienne / Song of the Chadian — I even knew some of the words)
- Mali (Pour l'Afrique et pour toi, Mali / For Africa And For You, Mali — other renditions are much more distinctive)
- Somalia (Soomaaliyeey toosoo / Somalis, Wake Up — this is technically the old anthem, in any case other renditions are much more distinctive)
- Sudan (Nahnu Jundullah, Jundulwatan / We Are Soldiers of God, Soldiers of the Motherland — again, other renditions are much more distinctive)
- Libya (Libiya, Libiya, Libiya / Libya, Libya, Libya — which in Arabic script looks like three viking ships)
There are also a few historical anthems, anthems of unrecognized/partially-recognized countries, or subnational anthems I might've been able to identify, but which weren't in the playlist I listened to. There's also the question of whether you count Yemen as an African country because of Socotra, but I wouldn't do this personally.
Which means that I got 21 / 54 countries, or just over two-fifths.
53 countries, 284 attempts, 1 skipped (Zambia, wtf are you)
I like this website way more for this: https://www.geoguessr.com/vgp/3069
https://www.geoguessr.com/vgp/3163
this is one is specific for africa
This one has a difficulty that's not elementary-school-level.
https://www.geoguessr.com/vgp/3235
Ooh dang this seems hard... I've found a new way to procrastinate in class.
uhhh I got like 30 on like 50-ish attempts with a bunch of skips before the game became unplayable due to the graphical glitches haha
This is why harder than I thought it would be, mostly because the text-boxes take up a massive chunk of the screen. Particularly the Central African Republic somehow takes up almost the entire middle part of the continent. Any tips on how to move them?
I already told you:
(If you are experiencing graphical glitches, see here for instructions.)
ETA: I edited the message to be more specific.
ugh i used to be good at maps. i only know the big regional powers and North Africa
my score is embarrassing i'm going to go to wikipedia and read about every single modern African nation and try again later
Competency test for Foreign Minister should include capitals, leeching ex-colonial powers, and at least one ethnicity or widely-spoken language for countries over 20M.
