You should have a different clue for the Rhine, as there are many many rivers in Europe and it could take a while to work it out. Otherwise, good quiz!
I think this is unlike normal decoder quizzes. For some clues, you have to know the hidden country before you can know the answer, although possible candidates are not that many.
I'm sorry you didn't enjoy the quiz, but these quizzes were intended to work similar to crossword puzzles, where you work back and forth from the answer to the clues and the clues to the answer to solve the puzzle. The clues taken as a whole should help determine the country, along with letters from a few of the easier clues. The rest of the clues should be easily solvable after the country is known. If you're really stuck, well there's only 43 countries with seven letters... ;)
I really liked this one ( though personally slightly on the easy side, I didnt get 100% (never heard of tet or cashbah) but the ones I did get I knew without having to think about it ( which feels more fullfilling)
To counter the one star I ll give you 5 :D I like that you can work backwards. (though I think it would be 4, 5 for the idea but 4 cause it could imo be balanced a bit better, but opinions differ, seeing how only 40%got indochina and 46% atoll to name a few lower ones that I wouldnt have thought were that hard)
Btw anyone else read desert refugee instead of refuge?
Didn't have a problem with that. Generally, you can work out enough of country to severely restrict possibilities. Vietnam is probably the toughest, having the most of those, but there aren't that many V countries, and only 2 on peninsulas. With Germany and Morocco, you have all but 1 or 2 letters to guess the country.
As Kestrana explained, the 'back and forth' between the clues and the answers is part of the fun! And, even so, I didn't find the quiz especially difficult. Would love to see more of these; and perhaps more difficult ones!
Yes and no, Vietnam was the hardest, but only ones I didnt get there were tet and agent. But Nguyen is hard to spell. And I think most would recognise mekong, but I can understand if it is hard to recall in a quiz, if you dont come across it everyday.
Besides Tet and agent only other I didnt get was cabesh
Plus all of the other question were very easy, so might not be the toughest vietnam questions, but medium questions in an easy quiz end up in the bottom ;)
My mother has a Vietnamese student this year (She's a teacher) and his name is Phuc Le, which caused a ton of trouble when making an online class because APPARENTLY everything else had been taken using those letters except for ElChup. So now this poor kid is named El Chup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarossa
To counter the one star I ll give you 5 :D I like that you can work backwards. (though I think it would be 4, 5 for the idea but 4 cause it could imo be balanced a bit better, but opinions differ, seeing how only 40%got indochina and 46% atoll to name a few lower ones that I wouldnt have thought were that hard)
Btw anyone else read desert refugee instead of refuge?
Besides Tet and agent only other I didnt get was cabesh
Though really, Indochina should be higher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule?wprov=sfti1