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Country Word Search #2

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
Previous Wordsearch (#1), Next Wordsearch (#3)
Acronyms like UK are not accepted.
Quiz by Stewart
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Last updated: November 19, 2018
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First submittedFebruary 5, 2016
Times taken38,902
Average score75.0%
Rating4.53
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scambigol
+16
Level 76
Feb 5, 2016
Don't know if it's deliberate but Russia is listed both under Asia and under Europe. You also have 'Oman' (within rOMANia)
Stewart
+9
Level 68
Feb 5, 2016
Yes, the russia was intentional as it is technically in both continents? And thank you for spotting that, I didn't notice it till now!
NOTKimJongUn
+1
Level 74
Feb 5, 2016
And you have Laos near the bottom left corner
Stewart
+6
Level 68
Feb 5, 2016
Where? It has to be in a single row, column or diagonal. It cannot curve round.
kiwirage
+8
Level 62
Feb 5, 2016
Nice again. Yeah, NOTKimJongUn is confusing this with Boggle rules.
Stewart
+2
Level 68
Feb 5, 2016
Thank you! And yeah, I suppose the setup is a bit similar.
Stewart
+7
Level 68
Jun 13, 2017
Updated!

This quiz has now been updated with a flashy new SVG wordsearch that reacts to your input! Enjoy!

cafrance1089
+3
Level 66
Sep 20, 2017
Great quiz. I would support more of these quizzes
Lemonized
+2
Level 48
Jan 24, 2019
There is also USA on top. I thought that was the last one i needed D:
Stewart
+6
Level 68
Jan 24, 2019
As mentioned in the caveats:

Acronyms like UK are not accepted.

That one at the top is a malicious red herring :)

overtired
+1
Level 84
Apr 14, 2019
Was UAE at the bottom right malicious too? I notice the E is one of the few letters not being used, like the A in USA!
Stewart
+4
Level 68
Apr 14, 2019
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.
lilipop
+1
Level 30
Jan 30, 2020
This is such a good quiz! So original. Hope it gets featured. Nominated!
jghastings
+2
Level 71
Aug 21, 2020
Not a country, but you can also get Arabs from this (SE to NW diagonal).
turnbacktwo
+1
Level 42
Dec 7, 2020
find these words man, log, bales, pain, gem, pan and in
SpencerGT
+2
Level 67
May 6, 2021
Urua...no.
Angbo
+2
Level 65
Jun 2, 2021
Cool!

But I'm so surprised that Oman is harder than rOMANia

Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 60
Jul 2, 2021
Yeah, I got Romania and moved on ;)
JWatson24
+1
Level 71
Oct 13, 2021
Am I the only person who got Oman before Romania?
stylus
+1
Level 76
Oct 13, 2021
is it deliberate that the answers you've already got don't show up in a list? i know i can see them on the grid but that's not so helpful
Stewart
+3
Level 68
Oct 13, 2021
Yes it is deliberate
music99
+1
Level 53
Oct 15, 2021
Oh man....
ariffarhan2310
+1
Level 15
Nov 21, 2021
i missed oman and palau
Kylllroy
+6
Level 51
Dec 18, 2021
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.
FlabberBapper
+1
Level 74
Jul 10, 2023
Was certainly why I didn't guess it
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Jul 10, 2023
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!)
OvenBobat
+1
Level 52
Nov 26, 2022
anyone notice Arab in there?
TheRatmeister
+3
Level 85
Jan 17, 2023
"UK" is an initialism not an acronym
Neodymium
+1
Level 59
Jul 10, 2023
If this is really a problem, it can be changed abbreviation to cover both.
Tris1326
+1
Level 27
Jun 27, 2023
I thought USA was one but then I looked at the description
sumguy
+2
Level 84
Jul 10, 2023
That's dirty pool hiding Oman inside Romania!
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Jul 10, 2023
As mentioned above, the quiz has now been updated to remove this cruel addition
Koopa
+1
Level 77
Jul 11, 2023
I was actually looking for some of those, assuming the quiz-maker might have done something like that.
b1094
+2
Level 68
Jul 11, 2023
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.
Stewart
+6
Level 68
Jul 11, 2023
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.

b1094
+2
Level 68
Jul 11, 2023
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?

Dimby
+3
Level 77
Jul 22, 2023
There’s no way to downvote whiny comments either, so here we are.
b1094
+2
Level 68
Jul 22, 2023
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.
himan232
+4
Level 64
Jul 22, 2023
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.

b1094
+2
Level 68
Jul 22, 2023
> "We have the right to criticize the critic."

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.

FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Jul 18, 2023
Just missed Palau
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Jul 18, 2023
Once you've gotten a bunch of them it's hard to search cuz all the lines get in the way and distract you
mikeyheath92
+1
Level 48
Jul 24, 2023
All but Peru. Argh!
SMFlex
+1
Level 50
Jan 17, 2024
I was thinking there had to be something around the bottom right corner. Then I run out of time and Cuba is right where I was looking the entire time.
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