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Give partial score for close guess, I called Benin a Sierra Leone, or art least show my guess and target country

Yeah, I was pretty good in Asia, except for the various ex-USSR "-stans" (I just know Kazakhstan is the biggest one).

If you know Kazakhstan is the biggest then you can get the rest. They're alphabetical going clockwise from Kazakhstan -> Kyrgyzstan -> Tajikistan -> Turkmenistan -> Uzbekistan

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#112
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Nice project Gameplay wise, I find the feedback loop to be lacking tho. Right now, there's no much feedback other than "You got it wrong, actually, it's X. Anyway, moving on...". This makes it less of an educational game and more like a test. For me, I'm always close, so revealing neighbor countries on the map along with the answer (especially for small countries) can add a "spaced repetition" element to the game, it…

Absolutely!! Some more suggestions of mine: * Show the incorrect guess you just made on the map, even if not close * Repeat countries that you got wrong within the next 10 turns, to learn by repetition

It does keep a list of countries you got wrong and you can go through them again.

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#113

Hey you are missing Mauritius! Nice game. Would be great if the gameplay moved on to the next country after a correct or wrong answer, without the need to hit the "Continue" button. Got 182/195! Hate the Oceania and Caribbean for always making me lose points in quizzes :D

I am adding Mauritius

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#114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah, very different power imbalance and influence :)

How so? Where's North Korea's influence? If anything, Taiwan has more ability to enforce its territorial claims.

North Korea appears as a territory of South Korea, not the opposite

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#115
I wish the dropdown didn't cover the entire map when you focus the text box, another nice feature would be being able to select multiple regions (e.g. just Europe and Asia)

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post #94

Good example but what adult doesn’t know all the countries of the world?

troll much?

Not at all, there might be a 4/5 neighbour countries you don’t fully remember which one is which but generally I don’t know many people who would find that not boring. Maybe it is an European thing
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