I like this but waiting a day for a new puzzle means I’ll never play it again
Just get a geography deck for Anki instead.
Worldle
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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think French Guiana is not a territory, it's a full department in France. Equal to Hawaii in the US as far as I know, but I'm not 100% sure.
That’s my understanding too. Something about Napoleon wanting to be egalitarian. Has the interesting side-effect that France is both the western-most and eastern-most country in the EU.
About egalitarian Napoleon:
> In 1801, Louverture issued a constitution for Saint-Domingue [now Haiti] that decreed he would be governor-for-life and called for black autonomy and a sovereign black state. In response, Napoleon Bonaparte dispatched a large expeditionary force of French soldiers and warships to the island, led by Bonaparte's brother-in-law Charles Leclerc, to restore French rule. They were under secret instructions to restore slavery, at least in the formerly Spanish-held part of the island.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution#Napoleon_in...
As for French Guiana, it was actually an extreme penal colony at that time (also, it was briefly held by Portugal). It became a department in 1946.
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#203What are good resources for learning geography?
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#204What are good resources for learning geography?
Good old-fashioned memorization using blank maps (Googling "blank map [continent]" will give you plenty) will get you farther than you might expect. Having the name and place anchored in your head makes offhand news stories about those places stick much more easily.
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#205I don't understand how this works? It had a picture of _____, and the correct answer was ______. Is it just guessing the country name based on the shape? edit - hid my answer in case it wasn't as obvious to others.
Todays question was super easy for a lot of people. Past countries have been things like Turks & Cacos, Liberia, Guatemala. Those I got close to and then the last guess or two I was scanning around google maps. Yeah it’s not as fun as Wordle, kinda interesting for a few plays though.
My world geography is pretty good but there are still a lot of small countries that I'm going to be vague on their shapes, exact locations, and even current names.
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
> s it just guessing the country name based on the shape Yes, and you get hints on distance and direction when wrong.
How can you get it wrong, though? You are basically presented the solution. It's like if Wordle would show you the picture of a tiger and asks for the word "TIGER". And if you don't recognize a country by it's borders and just take a wild guess, something like "you are 5000km off!" probably won't help you much anyway, which is apparently what you are getting shown on a wrong guess according to comments here.
There are a ton of countries and territories in places like Africa and the Pacific Ocean that many/most people don't know what they look like and have, at best, a vague notion of their location and may not even recall their name unaided.
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#208Please put it in bold font on the main page that there’s no way to get new puzzle and you need yo wait for a day. I was very confused while looking for the button to restart.
Yeah I don't get the point of this as is. At least the current country is nothing short of obvious, so everyone gets it right on first guess and then just waits a day?
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Re: Worldle
#209What are good resources for learning geography?
Good old-fashioned memorization using blank maps (Googling "blank map [continent]" will give you plenty) will get you farther than you might expect. Having the name and place anchored in your head makes offhand news stories about those places stick much more easily.
I suspect even spending an hour or two of study with Google Maps would help a lot with this game (and with where countries are located in general).
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#210What are good resources for learning geography?