Find the 12 countries hidden in the word search grid. As with typical word searches, words may be forwards or backwards in any row, column, or diagonal.
There are no answer boxes on purpose! The responsive grid is your only resource to find countries
Yes. Well they used to be part of the quizzes but we removed all acronyms and abbreviations as there was too much debate as to where to draw the line (should NZ for New Zealand or CAR be added? What about FSOM or ROK for South Korea). So we decided just remove them all.
Could you mention in the rules that a word could be within another word? (AKA: Oman within Romania) I think many people do not know that is a part of the rules so they do not look for it and that is why it is the least guessed.
Now the quiz has been featured I've modified it to remove Romania, since this was leftover from when these were originally made many years ago. (The JetPunk Word Search minigame puzzles do not have embedded words anymore either - since I learned my lesson when re-releasing those!)
Yesterday I made a comment criticising the decision to feature this, given that it's not even a quiz. But now an admin has deleted it. That's really disappointing, juvenile behaviour.
I did not delete it, but thanks for blindly accusing me. I can see from the logs though that several other people reported the comment, and is presumably why Quizmaster removed it.
Also, this quiz was featured via nominations, i.e. chosen by the users of JetPunk. Therefore by saying this quiz is not worth being featured is to claim your opinion is far better and more important than the community as a whole.
Then that decision to remove it was wholly unjustified. As Jetpunk itself says when trying to report something - "report" shouldn't be a "disagree" button.
And my comment expressed the fact, not an opinion, that this isn't a quiz (i.e. a test of knowledge). I think it's a real shame that, given how few quizzes get featured each week and given that there is already a very large "word search" section elsewhere on the website, this puzzle has taken the place of an actual test of knowledge.
I respect the fact that this puzzle got lots of nominations. Equally, you'll notice that there's no way to "downvote" a quiz that's on the nomination leaderboard, and so the only way I can express my dissenting opinion on it is here in the comments. Do you think it's wrong for me to do that?
It really is startling to come across people who think that constructive criticism is taboo. Any community that doesn't have parrhesia is doomed to fail.
You have the right to criticize. We have the right to criticize the critic. Your view is wrong. Especially since this quiz was way earlier than the word finding game made here.
Also, the definition for quiz is:
"a test of knowledge, especially as a competition between individuals or teams as a form of entertainment."(Oxford Languages) And this tests our knowledge of the countries of the world finding them in a grid. So it's definitely a quiz. And I can actually see this in a pub quiz kind of place.
See, it's remarks like this that I find bizarre. You're very welcome to disagree with me. But it's extremely juvenile to express that disagreement with comments like "Wrong!", "Whiny!", "You think your opinion is far better and more important than the community as a whole!", etc.
> "This tests our knowledge of the countries of the world finding them in a grid ... so it's definitely a quiz".
I respectfully disagree. I agree that there's a knowledge element to this puzzle, but I would contend that the skill element is predominant. For example, some people with dyslexia may know all 196 countries of the world but be completely unable to do this puzzle, if their dyslexia is of a certain type/severity.
> "Especially since this quiz was way earlier than the word finding game made here."
Yes, but it was *featured* well after many puzzles were added to that game.
This quiz has now been updated with a flashy new SVG wordsearch that reacts to your input! Enjoy!
Acronyms like UK are not accepted.
That one at the top is a malicious red herring :)
But I'm so surprised that Oman is harder than rOMANia
Also, this quiz was featured via nominations, i.e. chosen by the users of JetPunk. Therefore by saying this quiz is not worth being featured is to claim your opinion is far better and more important than the community as a whole.
And my comment expressed the fact, not an opinion, that this isn't a quiz (i.e. a test of knowledge). I think it's a real shame that, given how few quizzes get featured each week and given that there is already a very large "word search" section elsewhere on the website, this puzzle has taken the place of an actual test of knowledge.
I respect the fact that this puzzle got lots of nominations. Equally, you'll notice that there's no way to "downvote" a quiz that's on the nomination leaderboard, and so the only way I can express my dissenting opinion on it is here in the comments. Do you think it's wrong for me to do that?
Also, the definition for quiz is:
"a test of knowledge, especially as a competition between individuals or teams as a form of entertainment."(Oxford Languages) And this tests our knowledge of the countries of the world finding them in a grid. So it's definitely a quiz. And I can actually see this in a pub quiz kind of place.
I agree.
> "Your view is wrong."
See, it's remarks like this that I find bizarre. You're very welcome to disagree with me. But it's extremely juvenile to express that disagreement with comments like "Wrong!", "Whiny!", "You think your opinion is far better and more important than the community as a whole!", etc.
> "This tests our knowledge of the countries of the world finding them in a grid ... so it's definitely a quiz".
I respectfully disagree. I agree that there's a knowledge element to this puzzle, but I would contend that the skill element is predominant. For example, some people with dyslexia may know all 196 countries of the world but be completely unable to do this puzzle, if their dyslexia is of a certain type/severity.
> "Especially since this quiz was way earlier than the word finding game made here."
Yes, but it was *featured* well after many puzzles were added to that game.