Random Point on Land to Country

You are given 20 random points on land. Can you guess what countries they belong to in 60 seconds?

What matters is the centre of the circle

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Last updated: October 7, 2020

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First submitted	July 10, 2020
Times taken	150,429
Average score	80.0%
Rating	4.99

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+57

Level 78

Jul 10, 2020

This quiz took a week to create and I am very happy to submit it now. There are 3419 possible answers.

I will gladfully read your feedback if you have something to say, whether it be about the content (potential mistakes) or the form (especially the time limit).

You might get a lot of dots in Russia – blame them from both owning 11% of the world's land area and benefiting from the projection, not me!

I hope you'll have fun taking this quiz :)

+33

Level 55

Jul 10, 2020

Wow! Arguably one of the best quizzes on the site! Nominated!

+13

Level 78

Jul 10, 2020

Thank you so much! <3

+12

Level 57

Jul 10, 2020

Five of mine were in Russia.

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Level 78

Jul 10, 2020

refer to the sticky comment

Level 75

Sep 16, 2020

Five of mine were in Canada

Level 68

Oct 7, 2020

4 Canada, 6 Russia.

Level 40

Dec 8, 2022

I had none in Canada, but 6 in Russia

+13

Level 67

Oct 7, 2020

I got four of them in Denmark, of all places - and only one because of Greenland! But that's all the fun of random quizzes.

Level 28

Sep 14, 2021

lol

Level 59

Dec 12, 2022

I wonder how many times you'd have to play to get a map with no dots in Russia, Canada, China, the U.S., Brazil, or Australia? Usually it seems at least 4 of those 6 make the quiz on any given cycle!

Level 78

Dec 12, 2022

Those 6 countries amount for 1607/3411 dots which is 47%. So the probability has the same order of magnitude as getting 20 heads in 20 coin flips. So you'd have to play 2^20 times which makes it a 1 in a million shot

Level 51

Jul 10, 2020

Excellent quiz! Good job! Nominated!

Level 57

Jul 10, 2020

Good quiz! Would it be possible to show the whole country's shape, after it is guessed?

+20

Level 78

Jul 11, 2020

I mean, I could do that, but I'm not sure I want to. Doesn't it ruin the point of having a borderless map?

Level 67

Oct 13, 2020

What if you add the borders once the quiz is finished? to prove to me that the dot I thought was in laos is actually in thailand.

Level 55

Feb 17, 2021

And the dot in PNG wasn't on the Solomon Islands.

Level 58

Mar 23, 2021

Bougainville?

Level 78

Mar 23, 2021

Yeah probably. It won't matter anymore when Bougainville becomes independent :)

Level 63

Jul 11, 2020

Not so hard, depends a lot on what you get.

And great idea, too. Thanks!

Level 81

Jul 11, 2020

Wow... creative and fun-- great job! I also like the thumbnail. Nominated.

Level 78

Jul 11, 2020

Thank you! The thumbnail is a true sculpture that can be found in Arles, France.

Level 57

Jul 13, 2020

Awesome idea

Level 69

Aug 7, 2020

a dot in lithuania didnt show up

Level 78

Aug 7, 2020

Thanks! I've spotted the issue and corrected it.

Level 23

Aug 27, 2020

Could use a little bit more time if I'm honest. Otherwise, a great quiz!

Level 64

Oct 7, 2020

I think to be able to do it quickly is kinda the point of this quiz.

Level 65

Jun 9, 2021

I like this quiz but I really needed twice as much time

Level 68

Sep 1, 2020

I got a dot in Syria that is not showing up. Great quiz nonetheless!

Level 78

Sep 1, 2020

Thanks... I'll try to fix this but it'll be hard without my computer. Edit : fixed.

Level 56

Sep 3, 2020

Is there a way you could make it so the borders appear after the quiz is over?

Also I think it's kind of funny that I got Russia for 10 of mine my first time playing, and none for U.S., Canada, China, Brazil, Australia or India.

Level 78

Sep 3, 2020

Not sure it's possible but even if it is it'd require a complete svg revamp

Level 68

Oct 7, 2020

10 Russia? That's some luck.

Level 70

Sep 4, 2020

Beautiful! Just curious, are the possible dots evenly distributed on the map?

Level 78

Sep 4, 2020

Thanks! I made it so that within each country, every single point would be part of at least 1 circle (sometimes 2 if they overlap) even if they're not necessarily the centre (which would obviously be impossible). So yes, dots are evenly distributed for that projection

Level 44

Sep 7, 2020

I just randomly encountered a mistake, there was no dot anywhere, but the results were saying it was on south africa. Dont know what caused it, since I've already played it a couple of times with no problems. Anyways it's a really nice quiz!

Level 78

Sep 7, 2020

Thanks for letting me know, I am aware that such mistakes can happen even if they're "rare", it will be corrected as soon as I find which dot is problematic (I have to test them manually)

Edit : it is now fixed, thanks! Basically when I created that quiz, I used a spreadsheet with more than 3000 cities and their coordinates to generate the dots, then I equally distributed them on the map manually. Some countries like South Africa had more dots than I needed, so I deleted some dots (about 1000 overall). Then I had to create new paths for countries like Russia which required hundreds of new dots. When deleting a dot without removing the entry in the spreadsheet, it causes the problem you have encountered

Level 57

Sep 10, 2020

I had one where the dot didn't show up too, and it was supposed to be in Colombia. Great quiz though!

Level 78

Sep 11, 2020

Thank you, I have managed to find it.

Level 74

Sep 7, 2020

I had three in Azerbaijan

Level 78

Sep 7, 2020

there are only 4 dots in Azerbaijan out of ~3415 possible dots, this is incredible

Level 73

Sep 7, 2020

1 minute seriously? I'd nominate it if it had more time - I was enjoying it and doing well (I thought) until it just abruptly ended. Not such a fan of typing tests myself.

Really neat idea though.

Level 78

Sep 7, 2020

It was initially 45 seconds but I was told to add some time. It seems that 50% of people can complete this quiz on their first try (which is not something I'm extremely happy with btw), so if it's hard for you, well take it as a challenge and try again! Maybe you'll get an easier round :)

Level 73

Oct 9, 2020

Yeah, I persevered and did finally manage to complete it. Pretty satisfying :)

Level 67

Sep 10, 2020

I got a dot in cuba that didn't show up. Btw really neat quiz idea.

Level 78

Sep 11, 2020

Fixed now. Thank you very much!!

Level 74

Sep 11, 2020

Wow, in the same round, I got 6 in Canada and 4 in the USA, all ten of which were near the west coast. I got 4 in Africa, none in Russia and the only one in Asia was in Oman. Also, a dot in Germany was missing from the map.

Level 78

Sep 11, 2020

I now went through all the dots and made sure there is no ghost answer left. Looks like there were 12 in total, 8 of which were found by the community (half of which were by you iirc). I cannot thank you enough for your help, support and dedication ever since I first published this quiz :)

Level 82

Sep 14, 2020

First try I couldn't type fast enough, second try I got 6 dots in Russia :D

Level 62

Sep 14, 2020

Congrats on the feature Yev!

Level 78

Sep 15, 2020

It's all thanks to the 68 people who nominated it!

Level 71

Sep 15, 2020

Got a dot on the west of Alaska, hidden by my Ipad cover so I missed it. Annoying.

Level 78

Sep 15, 2020

I'm sorry. Here are some flowers if it can make you feel better.

Level 78

Sep 15, 2020

This is really a lot of fun, thank you! Needed several tries to reach 100%, finally made it with 5 dots in Russia, 3 Australia and 3 USA, and none in Oceania :-). It revealed some surprises for me, like Sudan reaching very far to the south. Great job!

Level 78

Sep 15, 2020

Thanks! Glad you liked it :)

Level 58

Sep 15, 2020

A point several hundred miles west of Lake Tanganyika was identified as being part of Tanzania.My best guess is that the dot is close to Kamina, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Must be a mistake?

Level 78

Sep 15, 2020

Let me have a look.

Edit : you're right! The dot was located right where Kamina is. Thank you so much!

Level 58

Sep 15, 2020

You're welcome. Fun quiz!

Level 84

Sep 15, 2020

Wonderfully creative. Thanks! I think I caught a break with 3 in Canada and 2 in Russia.

Level 78

Sep 15, 2020

Indeed, randomness induces replayability but also causes luck to become an important factor. Sadly one doesn't come without the other. I'm thankful that you still liked it!

Level 75

Sep 15, 2020

wow, amazing! well done!!

Level 78

Sep 15, 2020

I don't know how to thank you, it means a lot to me, especially coming from you!

Level 67

Oct 7, 2020

Hi! Could we have a red/blue scheme to help the colorblind? Thanks!

Level 78

Oct 7, 2020

There is a colourblind mode that you can enable here. If it doesn't work for you, I know how to change the CSS for colourblind users only, but I won't bother if it already works.

Level 30

Nov 26, 2020

Thanks for that tip. Before I turned colourblind mode on, I could tell orange from green, but it wasn't easy. Great quiz!

Level 61

Oct 7, 2020

*One* second remaining... Amazing quiz though!

Level 78

Oct 7, 2020

Thanks and congrats!

Level 65

Oct 7, 2020

The two American cities which I got were both in Alaska.

Brilliant quiz!!

Level 59

Aug 25, 2021

Cities?

Level 63

Oct 7, 2020

Great quiz, well done.

Level 75

Oct 7, 2020

Great quiz. 19/20 both times I've taken it. Slovakia timed me out as did Uzbekistan. 3rd time 17/20, and 4th time lucky, finally got 20/20. This is a quiz you can do again and again. It was a week well spent creating this masterpiece, Yev.

Level 75

Oct 7, 2020

Just a suggestion Yev, and it is certainly not a criticism, but would it be possible for you introduce into your algorithm a maximum number of dots per country? Or even per continent?

Level 78

Oct 7, 2020

It's a great idea, I actually thought about it before publishing the quiz. I'm not sure there's a way to do this on JetPunk, in fact I'm pretty sure you'd need to completely rework the code for that. May be feasible for someone else. But I can't

Level 75

Oct 6, 2021

It is a work of art in any case. I got 18 this time.

Level 60

Oct 7, 2020

Man, that was not easy for a colorblind person

Level 78

Oct 7, 2020

I'm trying to add something for colourblind people right now!

Level 57

Oct 7, 2020

Can you tell me quizmakers how is Crimea considered Russia? Why do you support Russian propaganda?

Level 78

Oct 7, 2020

JetPunk recognises the fact that Crimea is in Russia's hands, and it is, regardless of your opinion. It doesn't mean it's legitimate, but it's the truth.

Level 66

Oct 7, 2020

Finally got it on about the 20th attempt. This is a very, very good quiz, well done.

Level 78

Oct 7, 2020

Thanks)

Level 57

Oct 7, 2020

fun quiz :D

Level 74

Oct 7, 2020

Dang, on my first run I had 6 in Russia, 5 in Canada, and 3 in the US. Three answers and I'm 70% of the way there!

Level 84

Oct 7, 2020

First of all, I LOVE this quiz! However, I "missed" a Portugal guess when it was very much into the Atlantic Ocean.

Level 78

Oct 8, 2020

Azores

Level 65

Oct 7, 2020

Great quiz 20/20 on the 4th go including 14 different countries :)

Level 65

Oct 8, 2020

This is a great quiz! I'd nominate it but it has already been featured (and rightly so)

Level 45

Oct 8, 2020

I had one point in France, and it was in Mayotte. WHY

Level 74

Oct 8, 2020

I believe that you now have the record for most takes for a single quiz in a single day. Good job.

Level 78

Oct 8, 2020

I do, indeed! The former record was GeoPhilia's "Save Humanity" (14311 takes if I recall correctly). This quiz got 16880 takes. Thank you!

Level 74

Oct 8, 2020

COTW actually got 16,476 on December 22, 2019, but you still have the record nonetheless

Level 78

Oct 8, 2020

oh right, I excluded COTW from the algorithm because its spikes are mostly unrelated to FPs

Level 57

Oct 9, 2020

It was actually Save European which had the crown before this quiz. Save Humanity was on top before Save European. And, here we usually talk about takes quizzes on front page got in one single day, as Stewart told me sometime in 2014, COTW got 75k takes in one day. And I doubt if any user quiz can achieve that while on FP...

Level 74

Oct 9, 2020

75,000 takes in a day!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Level 78

Oct 9, 2020

Yup Hines, Stewart told me the same. Before 2014 Facebook would give CotW huge spikes, it once got 1M takes in a month. (33.3k per day on average)

Level 55

Mar 8, 2021

@HinesBrothers - funny you said that because YOU now have the record! :)

Level 27

Oct 10, 2020

I tried England and Wales but neither was accepted. The UK is not a country.

Level 75

Oct 14, 2020

Ha ha, here we go again.

Level 59

Aug 25, 2021

Don’t bother arguing. You can’t change minds or quizzes by just stating your problem and just like that assuming it will be “fixed”.

Level 68

Oct 26, 2020

Would be cool to see a 'Random points on land to nearest capital'. Same format just with naming the nearest capital city

Level 78

Oct 26, 2020

Damn that's a great idea actually

Level 54

Nov 24, 2020

This was really satisfying - thank you! Much to my amazement I got them all right. Probably helped that about half of them were in Canada.

Level 83

Feb 9, 2021

Somehow got Liechtenstein and San Marino. I'm curious to know exactly how this quiz works, because that seems extremely unlikely on the face of it. Great quiz though. I enjoy those that I can do many times over.

Level 78

Feb 9, 2021

You just got incredibly unlucky haha. You can copy this quiz to see how it works.

Level 75

Mar 2, 2021

Fun quiz, great idea! Thank you so much for making this!!

Level 78

Mar 2, 2021

You're welcome!! What a heartwarming comment))

Level 38

Mar 8, 2021

Great quiz!

There was one time I got 6 in Russia and 5 in Canada. And there's another time where I got Saint Kitts, Eswatini, Turkmenistan, and a total of 18 different countries.

It's fun!

Level 43

Mar 11, 2021

Why do you changed your name?

Level 78

Mar 11, 2021

Yev is my deadname and I completely stopped using it, in order to finally accept myself as a transgender woman

Level 52

Mar 17, 2021

I copied this quiz and removed the randomness (so all the dots appear at once), and it looks incredibly, incredibly weird.

Level 78

Mar 17, 2021

Well. Yeah.

Level 59

Aug 25, 2021

It’s a beehive! (That was extremely mad at Russia)

Level 48

May 3, 2021

France in between Mozambique and Madagascar, okay.

Level 26

May 5, 2021

Teehee

Level 56

Jul 1, 2021

I got one in the caribbean, and after guessing every country on there, it turned out to be France :(

Level 58

Dec 8, 2022

lol Guadeloupe

Level 77

Jul 22, 2021

I had 6 in Canada. Nice!

Level 66

Sep 26, 2021

I had 2 in Barbados.

Level 28

Nov 3, 2021

I had 5 in Ukraine somehow 2 were also in Crimea

Level 38

Dec 3, 2021

got 10 from just russia and 10 from iran so i do it in 4 sec

Level 59

Dec 24, 2021

Since the chance of getting russia is roughly 1/10, and the chance of getting iran is roughly 1/100, the chance that you got 10 of each is roughly 1/10^18, you are lying.

Level 43

Jun 12, 2022

I mean it's always possible

Level 57

Dec 8, 2022

Is it though? If 500 people took this quiz every day for one million years, the chance of it happening would be 0.000018%.

Level 38

Dec 6, 2021

6 Greenland 7 France

Level 38

Dec 20, 2021

1 reunion 5 French Polynesia 3 French Guiana 3 Martinique 3 Guadeloupe 3 Mayotte 1 St Pierre and 1 New Caledonia

Level 26

Jan 26, 2022

how the hell did i get lichtenstein???

Level 38

Apr 3, 2022

I got 5 on USA and 2 on both Canada and Russia

Level 43

Jun 12, 2022

I got all with 0:00 in my 2nd try

Level 47

Dec 7, 2022

8 of mine were in Bulgaria

Level 78

Dec 7, 2022

There are only 4 dots in Bulgaria, why do you lie?

Level 47

Dec 8, 2022

lol, I wondered what type of reaction I would get if I said that.

Level 50

Dec 8, 2022

Great quiz

Level 50

Dec 8, 2022

Fun quiz!

Level 57

Dec 8, 2022

Managed to get 3 in both Canada and the USA, but just one in Russia.

Level 26

Dec 8, 2022

I managed to get one without any dots in all of Africa.

Level 33

Dec 8, 2022

got 8 Russias lol

Level 29

Dec 8, 2022

Got one south of yemen, turned out to be an island owned by yemen i didnt know existed lol.

Level 78

Dec 8, 2022

it's called Socotra, you can find beautiful trees there :)

Level 54

Dec 10, 2022

I got Aruba or Curacao, so I had to guess Netherlands!

Level 58

Dec 10, 2022

I was amazed when one of my dots was in Andorra. I thought "what are the chances?" But then I thought, "why not Andorra?"

Level 45

Dec 11, 2022

Note: It may be a good idea to not include disputed territories in the list. The moment a dot went straight onto the Falkland Islands I realized I'd need to make an extra guess.

Level 19

Dec 12, 2022

I got a Fance dot in the middle of the ocean on the south a south America.

Level 68

Dec 12, 2022

Could have been French Guiana (a subdivision of France) in South America, or New Caledonia over by Australia, or Reunion near Africa, or other French islands in Caribbean.

Level 78

Dec 12, 2022

There is one dot on Tahiti too (Southern Pacific Ocean)

Level 56

Mar 13, 2023

Very nice quiz! Got a bit lucky with 9 dots in Russia and 4 in Brazil haha

Level 22

Mar 17, 2023

i got one with china australia usa canada brazil and russia

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