What a fun quiz, definitely got the cogs turning. I knew I missed a few African countries when I'd finished Africa, but couldn't think what they were... Uganda *facepalm. Apart from that, I missed Island countries, which is my weakness and Monaco. I'm happy for my first try.
Canada - USA - Guatemala - Belize ... (15 minutes later, after retyping every Caribbean, African, Asian, European and Pacific country in order 3 times) ... 195/196.
Managed it in 4 mins 38secs.... I do my normal countries of the world quiz in a specific order anyway and know what the number should read when I finish certain regions etc. so I kept to that and thought the map out in my head.
The easiest way for me is to do the countries in Oceania first, then the Caribbean, then go down the americas from Canada to Chile/Argentina. Then, do all the islands like Taiwan, Maldives, Seychelles, Cabo verde, and Malta first and go from South Africa to Egypt, then do the Arabian peninsula. Then, start Europe with the microstates and then go from west to east and go and do the former ussr countries and do the rest of the continent.
People who are more talented are the type of people who will take this quiz. People who are more talented are also the type of people to focus on getting the obscure countries but fail obvious ones, as seen above (people missing China, Mexico, etc).
On my first pass I got everything but India with over 14 minutes to go.. took me 6 minutes to remember that one for some reason. I'd say Switzerland is much easier to forget than India.
As in half of the quizes here, I almost always forget exactly one answer- each time I take this quiz a different one. :( How is this always just one, not two or something.
Missed 2 countries with 10 minutes left so I had to go thru them all again! Found out they were Turkey and the Philippines with 3 minutes left! First try btw ;) Good luck everyone that missed one or two! You can do this!!!
I was convinced I was missing one in Africa because I thought Africa had 55 countries and after going through Africa I had only added 54, but I couldn't figure it out after double-checking most of the continent so I gave up. It turns out there are only 54 countries in Africa and I was missing Brunei.
Very challenging, it challenges my memory. I thought I typed in Italy but I didn’t and also same with Uganda and Singapore, Belize I just completely forgotten
missed micronesia, tried to list all of oceania at the start, and spent few minutes trying to remember what i could have missed before giving up. great quiz tho!
a trick for Oceania is to do the countries that end in U (Nauru, Palau, Tuvalu, Vanuatu). Then start with Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga (FST, sounds like Fast). Then do the countries ending in Islands (Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands). Then end with Micronesia, Australia and New Zealand (M.A.N). So basically: You fast island man.
I do the ones in the north first from left to right (Palau, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Kiribati) then I go to the ones that veer southeast from Papua New Guinea (Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji), then I do Nauru, Tuvalu, Samoa, Tonga
Very hard quiz but a lot of fun. I managed it by doing North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania then Asia trying to picture the maps. Brilliant quiz.
I have my normal path for countries of the world, but this quiz makes me think more. By the time I got to egypt I had 141 so I missed one and when done with africa I missed another which was Cameroon cus I thought I typed it. But the other one I missed... was very obvious. aka freaking China.
A technique I use is to work through the countries systematically, continent by continent (e.g. North America to South America to Africa e.t.c). And I try to picture a world map in my mind to remember the islands. That’s how I always do it.
I did it like: North America, Caribbean islands, South America, African islands, Africa, Middle East, Oceania, Asian islands, East Asia, ‘Stan’ countries, any others, European islands, Europe.
195/196 with more than 10 minutes left, took another 6 minutes to find Bosnia because I got all the countries around it without realizing I had missed it.
Got them all. I do them continent by continent and I usually work my way around the edge, stopping to do a few landlocked ones. I also start with the islands otherwise I know I will forget them.
First try. Got 193 pretty quickly and had to go back through and think of what I forgot. Then I got Laos, Botswana, and PNG in like 5 minutes of thinking.
Missed Madagascar, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Kazakhstan. For Kosovo and Montenegro I knew something was missing there but couldn’t figure it out. Kazakhstan I literally thought to myself I’ll do that with the other “stans,” and I didn’t. Madagascar just didn’t make it onto my mental map.
I think a good way to do mapless COTW is to keep track of how many countries you'd normally have at a given point, and use it to determine if you missed any before moving on.
first try, carefully treaded through, gave up when i couldnt remember the two countries i had missed (bosnia and croatia), then though id try again just now and 'smashed' through it, with thirteen minutes left, i had one missing. it took 8 minutes to finally, on a whim, type in france out of despiration. I now hate the French
Why did my brain deny the existence of Mexico???
195/196
dang
great quiz :)
i went through every other oceanian country three times each and i didn't get fiji
I forgot Italy, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Tajikstan, and a couple more
I wrote nearly every country two times because of South Africa.
Ireland, Fiji, Ghana, and North Macedonia of all things, and then Tuvalu and Vanuatu. I have no idea how I missed these.
*Forgets that big ass country and gets 195/196
Spent like 10 minutes trying to think of what I missed only to realize with like a minute and a half left that I had never typed Ivory Coast
in my case I do the americas first, to get 35
then I do Europe to get 80
then Asia to get 128
then Oceania to get 142
and then Africa to get 196
im ukrainian..
193/196
Missed Andorra (makes sense, small country), but how did I forget THAILAND and BANGLADESH, two massive nations?