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Random Point on Land to Country

You are given 20 random points on land. Can you guess what countries they belong to in 60 seconds?
What matters is the centre of the circle
Answers change every time you play!
Quiz by BolyaiAnna
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Last updated: October 7, 2020
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First submittedJuly 10, 2020
Times taken176,225
Average score80.0%
Rating4.99
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Country
Chad
Denmark
United States
Russia
Country
Tanzania
Denmark
Australia
Australia
Country
Saudi Arabia
Canada
Russia
Philippines
Country
Russia
Brazil
Argentina
Canada
Country
Canada
Canada
United States
Cape Verde
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Level 82
Jul 10, 2020
This quiz took a week to create and I am very happy to submit it now. There are 3419 possible answers.

I will gladfully read your feedback if you have something to say, whether it be about the content (potential mistakes) or the form (especially the time limit).

You might get a lot of dots in Russia – blame them from both owning 11% of the world's land area and benefiting from the projection, not me!

I hope you'll have fun taking this quiz :)

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Level 68
Sep 14, 2020
Congrats on the feature Yev!
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Level 82
Sep 15, 2020
It's all thanks to the 68 people who nominated it!
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Level 72
Sep 15, 2020
Got a dot on the west of Alaska, hidden by my Ipad cover so I missed it. Annoying.
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Level 82
Sep 15, 2020
I'm sorry. Here are some flowers if it can make you feel better.
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Level 80
Sep 15, 2020
This is really a lot of fun, thank you! Needed several tries to reach 100%, finally made it with 5 dots in Russia, 3 Australia and 3 USA, and none in Oceania :-). It revealed some surprises for me, like Sudan reaching very far to the south. Great job!
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Level 82
Sep 15, 2020
Thanks! Glad you liked it :)
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Level 60
Sep 15, 2020
A point several hundred miles west of Lake Tanganyika was identified as being part of Tanzania.My best guess is that the dot is close to Kamina, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Must be a mistake?
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Level 82
Sep 15, 2020
Let me have a look.

Edit : you're right! The dot was located right where Kamina is. Thank you so much!

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Level 60
Sep 15, 2020
You're welcome. Fun quiz!
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Level 84
Sep 15, 2020
Wonderfully creative. Thanks! I think I caught a break with 3 in Canada and 2 in Russia.
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Level 82
Sep 15, 2020
Indeed, randomness induces replayability but also causes luck to become an important factor. Sadly one doesn't come without the other. I'm thankful that you still liked it!
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Level 76
Sep 15, 2020
wow, amazing! well done!!
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Level 82
Sep 15, 2020
I don't know how to thank you, it means a lot to me, especially coming from you!
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Level 70
Oct 7, 2020
Hi! Could we have a red/blue scheme to help the colorblind? Thanks!
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Level 82
Oct 7, 2020
There is a colourblind mode that you can enable here. If it doesn't work for you, I know how to change the CSS for colourblind users only, but I won't bother if it already works.
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Level 29
Nov 26, 2020
Thanks for that tip. Before I turned colourblind mode on, I could tell orange from green, but it wasn't easy. Great quiz!
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Level 61
Oct 7, 2020
*One* second remaining... Amazing quiz though!
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Level 82
Oct 7, 2020
Thanks and congrats!
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Level 66
Oct 7, 2020
The two American cities which I got were both in Alaska.

Brilliant quiz!!

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Level 60
Aug 25, 2021
Cities?
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Level 65
Oct 7, 2020
Great quiz, well done.
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Level 78
Oct 7, 2020
Great quiz. 19/20 both times I've taken it. Slovakia timed me out as did Uzbekistan. 3rd time 17/20, and 4th time lucky, finally got 20/20. This is a quiz you can do again and again. It was a week well spent creating this masterpiece, Yev.
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Level 78
Oct 7, 2020
Just a suggestion Yev, and it is certainly not a criticism, but would it be possible for you introduce into your algorithm a maximum number of dots per country? Or even per continent?
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Level 82
Oct 7, 2020
It's a great idea, I actually thought about it before publishing the quiz. I'm not sure there's a way to do this on JetPunk, in fact I'm pretty sure you'd need to completely rework the code for that. May be feasible for someone else. But I can't
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Level 78
Oct 6, 2021
It is a work of art in any case. I got 18 this time.
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Level 61
Oct 7, 2020
Man, that was not easy for a colorblind person
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Level 82
Oct 7, 2020
I'm trying to add something for colourblind people right now!
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Level 57
Oct 7, 2020
Can you tell me quizmakers how is Crimea considered Russia? Why do you support Russian propaganda?
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Level 82
Oct 7, 2020
JetPunk recognises the fact that Crimea is in Russia's hands, and it is, regardless of your opinion. It doesn't mean it's legitimate, but it's the truth.
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Level 66
Oct 7, 2020
Finally got it on about the 20th attempt. This is a very, very good quiz, well done.
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Level 82
Oct 7, 2020
Thanks)
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Level 69
Oct 7, 2020
fun quiz :D
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Level 76
Oct 7, 2020
Dang, on my first run I had 6 in Russia, 5 in Canada, and 3 in the US. Three answers and I'm 70% of the way there!
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Level 87
Oct 7, 2020
First of all, I LOVE this quiz! However, I "missed" a Portugal guess when it was very much into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Level 82
Oct 8, 2020
Azores
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Level 67
Oct 7, 2020
Great quiz 20/20 on the 4th go including 14 different countries :)
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Level 65
Oct 8, 2020
This is a great quiz! I'd nominate it but it has already been featured (and rightly so)
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Level 45
Oct 8, 2020
I had one point in France, and it was in Mayotte. WHY
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Level 75
Oct 8, 2020
I believe that you now have the record for most takes for a single quiz in a single day. Good job.
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Level 82
Oct 8, 2020
I do, indeed! The former record was GeoPhilia's "Save Humanity" (14311 takes if I recall correctly). This quiz got 16880 takes. Thank you!
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Level 75
Oct 8, 2020
COTW actually got 16,476 on December 22, 2019, but you still have the record nonetheless
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Level 82
Oct 8, 2020
oh right, I excluded COTW from the algorithm because its spikes are mostly unrelated to FPs
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Level 56
Oct 9, 2020
It was actually Save European which had the crown before this quiz. Save Humanity was on top before Save European. And, here we usually talk about takes quizzes on front page got in one single day, as Stewart told me sometime in 2014, COTW got 75k takes in one day. And I doubt if any user quiz can achieve that while on FP...
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Level 75
Oct 9, 2020
75,000 takes in a day!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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Level 82
Oct 9, 2020
Yup Hines, Stewart told me the same. Before 2014 Facebook would give CotW huge spikes, it once got 1M takes in a month. (33.3k per day on average)
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Level 55
Mar 8, 2021
@HinesBrothers - funny you said that because YOU now have the record! :)
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Level 27
Oct 10, 2020
I tried England and Wales but neither was accepted. The UK is not a country.
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Level 78
Oct 14, 2020
Ha ha, here we go again.
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Level 60
Aug 25, 2021
Don’t bother arguing. You can’t change minds or quizzes by just stating your problem and just like that assuming it will be “fixed”.
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Level 68
Oct 26, 2020
Would be cool to see a 'Random points on land to nearest capital'. Same format just with naming the nearest capital city
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Level 82
Oct 26, 2020
Damn that's a great idea actually
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Level 56
Nov 24, 2020
This was really satisfying - thank you! Much to my amazement I got them all right. Probably helped that about half of them were in Canada.
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Level 82
Feb 9, 2021
Somehow got Liechtenstein and San Marino. I'm curious to know exactly how this quiz works, because that seems extremely unlikely on the face of it. Great quiz though. I enjoy those that I can do many times over.
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Level 82
Feb 9, 2021
You just got incredibly unlucky haha. You can copy this quiz to see how it works.
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Level 74
Mar 2, 2021
Fun quiz, great idea! Thank you so much for making this!!
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Level 82
Mar 2, 2021
You're welcome!! What a heartwarming comment))
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Level 37
Mar 8, 2021
Great quiz!

There was one time I got 6 in Russia and 5 in Canada. And there's another time where I got Saint Kitts, Eswatini, Turkmenistan, and a total of 18 different countries.

It's fun!

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Level 43
Mar 11, 2021
Why do you changed your name?
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Level 82
Mar 11, 2021
Yev is my deadname and I completely stopped using it, in order to finally accept myself as a transgender woman
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Level 52
Mar 17, 2021
I copied this quiz and removed the randomness (so all the dots appear at once), and it looks incredibly, incredibly weird.
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Level 82
Mar 17, 2021
Well. Yeah.
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Level 60
Aug 25, 2021
It’s a beehive! (That was extremely mad at Russia)
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Level 48
May 3, 2021
France in between Mozambique and Madagascar, okay.
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Level 26
May 5, 2021
Teehee
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Level 57
Jul 1, 2021
I got one in the caribbean, and after guessing every country on there, it turned out to be France :(
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Level 58
Dec 8, 2022
lol Guadeloupe
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Level 77
Jul 22, 2021
I had 6 in Canada. Nice!
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Level 71
Sep 26, 2021
I had 2 in Barbados.
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Level 28
Nov 3, 2021
I had 5 in Ukraine somehow 2 were also in Crimea
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Level 39
Dec 3, 2021
got 10 from just russia and 10 from iran so i do it in 4 sec
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Level 63
Dec 24, 2021
Since the chance of getting russia is roughly 1/10, and the chance of getting iran is roughly 1/100, the chance that you got 10 of each is roughly 1/10^18, you are lying.
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Level 43
Jun 12, 2022
I mean it's always possible
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Level 63
Dec 8, 2022
Is it though? If 500 people took this quiz every day for one million years, the chance of it happening would be 0.000018%.
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Level 39
Dec 6, 2021
6 Greenland 7 France
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Level 39
Dec 20, 2021
1 reunion 5 French Polynesia 3 French Guiana 3 Martinique 3 Guadeloupe 3 Mayotte 1 St Pierre and 1 New Caledonia
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Level 26
Jan 26, 2022
how the hell did i get lichtenstein???
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Level 38
Apr 3, 2022
I got 5 on USA and 2 on both Canada and Russia
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Level 43
Jun 12, 2022
I got all with 0:00 in my 2nd try
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Level 55
Dec 7, 2022
8 of mine were in Bulgaria
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Level 82
Dec 7, 2022
There are only 4 dots in Bulgaria, why do you lie?
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Level 55
Dec 8, 2022
lol, I wondered what type of reaction I would get if I said that.
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Level 53
Dec 8, 2022
Great quiz
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Level 62
Dec 8, 2022
Fun quiz!
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Level 63
Dec 8, 2022
Managed to get 3 in both Canada and the USA, but just one in Russia.
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Level 27
Dec 8, 2022
I managed to get one without any dots in all of Africa.
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Level 32
Dec 8, 2022
got 8 Russias lol
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Level 32
Dec 8, 2022
Got one south of yemen, turned out to be an island owned by yemen i didnt know existed lol.
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Level 82
Dec 8, 2022
it's called Socotra, you can find beautiful trees there :)
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Level 65
Dec 10, 2022
I got Aruba or Curacao, so I had to guess Netherlands!
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Level 58
Dec 10, 2022
I was amazed when one of my dots was in Andorra. I thought "what are the chances?" But then I thought, "why not Andorra?"
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Level 45
Dec 11, 2022
Note: It may be a good idea to not include disputed territories in the list. The moment a dot went straight onto the Falkland Islands I realized I'd need to make an extra guess.
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Level 18
Dec 12, 2022
I got a Fance dot in the middle of the ocean on the south a south America.
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Level 68
Dec 12, 2022
Could have been French Guiana (a subdivision of France) in South America, or New Caledonia over by Australia, or Reunion near Africa, or other French islands in Caribbean.
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Level 82
Dec 12, 2022
There is one dot on Tahiti too (Southern Pacific Ocean)
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Level 56
Mar 13, 2023
Very nice quiz! Got a bit lucky with 9 dots in Russia and 4 in Brazil haha
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Level 31
Mar 17, 2023
i got one with china australia usa canada brazil and russia
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Level 60
Apr 25, 2023
done, with 2 seconds remaining
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Level 54
Oct 20, 2023
Done in 25 seconds!
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Level 44
Oct 28, 2023
None in Russia or the USA!
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Level 38
Mar 21, 2024
Ayo I got a point perfectly on Andorra!