This game is great! Really fun and surprisingly challenging, today's challenge was in one of the parts of the world I'm most unsure about geographically!<p>Unlike the other wordle-like games, I feel like I'm actually learning something with this one!<p>Great work!
Well that was frustrating. It marked me down for taking a realistic route from Canada to Argentina, following the main road that I’ve actually taken in real life.<p>It’s “ideal” solution cut through a bunch of windy jungle to bypass El Salvador, then took a quick detour across the Amazon from Colombia into Brazil to avoid the 3000 miles of straight multi lane highway along the west coast. Because that went through more countries.<p>They either need to fix their thing to favour realistic routes or give much clearer instructions that this a game that treats countries as puzzle pieces with absolutely no other context.
What's with the language detection on this site?<p>I've set my browser languages to "English (US)" first, and "Dutch" second. Instead of showing me the English-language version of the site, I get an absolutely atrocious auto-translation into Dutch instead (barely intelligible; way worse than Google Translate would produce).<p>Why are you even looking at my language preferences if you don't respect my preference, of getting English first? And maybe don't do secondary languages if you haven't done a tiny bit of quality assurance on the translation?
Intetesting feature: transfer statistics between devices with a code.<p>So they are keeping stats on their server without an account but with a way to identify devices. Or the stats could be on the device until the transfer procedure starts. I'm on my phone so I can't check what they are doing.<p>Then you type that code to another device and they'll be able to link the two of them.<p>"transfer" should mean that the stats are no more on the original device. That would mean that they delete the cookie (or whatever) and any trace of that device on their server.<p>Maybe it is even possible to make the two devices communicate between each other without going through a server. I think it's been done in web conferencing but it's too late on the night to research the matter.
> "The idea of an unlimited travle, and/or allowing players to catch up on previous games is something I'd like to add"<p>Maybe that and also switch to "capitals" mode to use the capitals of the countries instead of the country names. I used to use another "popular map guessing site" almost daily to practice world capitals until one of their pop-up adverts hijacked the page's onload and redirected me to another site. Travle seems much more effective than rote memorization, as it's practical.
Love this! Reminds me a lot of the wikipedia speed run game which is another fav<p><a href="https://wikispeedrun.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://wikispeedrun.org/</a>
Neat game, but I wish so many of them popping up these days wouldn't just try to blindly copy the "one game a day" formula. <i>Especially</i> ones that can be algorithmically generated to have basically infinite puzzles. Just because Wordle went viral in that way doesn't mean yours will as well. I'd love to keep playing this one, but the chances of me remembering to come back day after day are next to zero.
Why didn't Kuwait count for today's challenge (Bangladesh -> Yemen)? Is it calculated by the least countries inbetween, rather than shortest distance? If this is the case, I could see this making some weird paths, such as always going through Russia, if going West <-> East.
I’ve been playing this game ever since I saw it on Geowizard! The game seems to update dynamically based on what countries you choose. Does anyone know how it determines best path between countries as you update your guess? Underlying graphs?
Love it! Can't wait for tomorrow (7 minutes from now.) The way I want to go "from A to B" made me think you had to guess the countries in order, which is not the case apparently.
Cool game! When I first glanced at the title of the post what sprung to mind was the good old days of gaming, particularly "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" from Broderbund[0].<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Sandiego_(video_game_series)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Sandiego_(video_game_se...</a><p>EDIT:
Post of the title -> title of the post
I might be mistaken, but similar quizzes exist on the glorious quizzing site jetpunk.com[1] You can also play those multiple times a day. I will update the comment with the link to the particular quiz(zes) if and when I find it/them.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.jetpunk.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.jetpunk.com/</a>
The game is great. URL is horribly hard to remember.<p>This is my third time having to come back to hacker news to search for it.<p>Yes I could bookmark, or be more deliberate about committing it to memory, instead I’d rather write this so you know what happens when you don’t see return visits going up.
I enjoyed this game, it made me feel better about myself until I tried France and was unable to think of a single départment between the Pyrénées and Marseille. Are you planning to add other countries? A pan european version with german states, french and spanish regions etc. could be interesting.
This is awesome - I’ve sent it to a friend of mine who’s currently most of the way through today’s route! I can’t say I solved it, Central American geography isn’t my strong point, but I will be trying the alternate game modes throughout the day.
Was this translated into English? Some of the instructions and word choices are odd and hard to parse.<p>“ Jumps that require you go nearer other countries don't count - e.g. France <-> French Guiana “
Congrats on the game! Looks great!<p>Mildly off-topic: how do you get Google ads on a website like this? Google loves to reject my websites due to a lack of content even if the content is a game itself or a Web app rather than some content-heavy website
I once sat in an airplane without anything to read or listen to for 10 hours. I decided to learn all countries in the world from the promo magazine you always have in the airplane. Never really useful till this game :)
Oddly it decided to show me the game in Italian. I have my browser set up to prefer either English or Italian, but English would have been fine, really, and its Italian translation is not that great.<p>Still, neat game though.
I enjoyed it and then I realised that you need to wait till next day to play again. I'll have forgotten it ever existed in an hour, weird marketing gimmick I'd say.
Very easy to cheat in this game, unfortunately - just look at a map elsewhere. The game itself is great though, very well done and lots of detail.<p>Could only be better if it would install a ServiceWorker to remind me by push notification every day for the new task.