I got South Africa and Namibia merged, Ecuador and Colombia merged, and Chad, Sudan, and South Sudan merged. I also had Russia and China merged and that makes Mongolia look like an island.
Same thing with Russia & Ukraine the second time. Both borders between them are fully intact. I don't want to keep dropping nags, it's a great brain teaser quiz.
Did they not merge or is it just that the border shows up after? Because incorrect borders show up dark red when you finish (to easily identify which are missed)
I've made it clearer when you've missed a border now, by making it white instead of red. I can assure you borders do disappear as expected, merging the countries. It's only when you give up or run out of time that the incorrect borders show up again to make it clear what you missed.
Not 100% sure because time is up now, but pretty sure I saw the new guinea border during the quiz. One of the first places I check to see of they are merged. On chrome on tablet, will try to recreate it.
Edit: 40 tries later... couldnt get another one with new guinea/ indonesia border. No time to continue trying now, maybe later.
Thanks for testing. Do you think I should keep the borders hidden even when incorrect? That feels like the only sure-fire way of knowing what's happening.
Yeah Liechtenstein was too small for this map sadly. It's surprising how small it is! Also borders which are very small are not possible. I didn't want to make the quiz too impossible :P
More seriously, that's a funny idea. As others have said, there are a few problems but probably hard to fix... I had the two pairs CAR with the Congos, so that the frontier between the Congos didn't disappear.
Yeah the only way for this to be "fixed" would be by removing the majority of the answers, making the quiz almost boring as they'd be only around 50 possible pairs, as opposed to 214.
Technologically it could've been possible, yes. However I decided not to do this, since I believed it would make things simpler for most users. So only mainland borders of countries are considered.
South Sudan & Sudan got missed by me; apparently I'm still used to seeing them together. They split in 2011, with South Sudan remaining "the most recent sovereign state with widespread recognition," according to Wikipedia.
Does anyone else imagine you are on a game show and they've tossed a map of the world on a screen and you have 4 minutes to guess the merged countries for a million dollars and you wonder "Do they know I am a jetpunk user?"?
Just wondering, is it possible for Russia and Poland/Lithuania's borders to be merged with Kaliningrad? I have played the quiz a lot (probably over 100 times) and I've never seen this combination.
Another great quiz. I had Vietnam and China merged, which was too difficult for me to see because the border between them is small and Vietnam has a long border on its west so it looked intact :(
I wonder if some of these merges might happen one day. North and South Korea I could definitely see. I had Germany and Austria and well, that's happened before, to say the least. Also had USA and Canada, which sure isn't happening anytime soon, but with enough pressure from climate change pushing enough Americans into Canada...I mean hey, it could happen?
I hear that Alberta is frustrated with paying for other canadian provinces, and may leave Canada as a result. Not sure how prevalent that independence movement might be, but apparently one of their options was to join the US as the 51st state.
It is kinda tricky when you have four adjacent countries all merged, and you only detect the missing border between the middle ones (in my case Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina). As soon as they turn green, the outer two countries appear just fine, and you can't figure out which other countries the heck you are still missing.
It is possible for Serbia and Kosovo to be merged? Because if so, that could create some, uh, problems. Same thing with South Korea, North Korea, Sudan, and South Sudan.
All of those African countries created a West African union which looked really cool (Guinea, Ivory Coast,Chad,Libya,Tunisia,Benin, and Nigeria.) I also had as i said India and Pakistan which can probably create a war if i say anything else about those two countries
Edit: 40 tries later... couldnt get another one with new guinea/ indonesia border. No time to continue trying now, maybe later.
Poland: *sweats profusely*
Lithuania
Nice quiz
I like this creativity
Merging :)
Sweden,
Angola and
Namibia,
Bolivia and
Brazil,
Benin and
Nigeria,
Laos and
Thailand
Libya and
Tunisia
India and
Pakistan
Chad and
Libya
Guinea and
Ivory Coast
Ghana and
Togo
All of those African countries created a West African union which looked really cool (Guinea, Ivory Coast,Chad,Libya,Tunisia,Benin, and Nigeria.) I also had as i said India and Pakistan which can probably create a war if i say anything else about those two countries