This is a VERY confusing quiz. I am very knowledgeable in world geography and I couldn't understand what I was supposed to do. Please re-write the instructions.
I think you have to click on a section of the map and then click the answer. Don't just hover over the screen, actually click a section where you know a country is and then click the answer in the side column. It was confusing for me at first but I eventually found my way around it.
OK you got me, I clicked where Russia would be and a map of Turkey came up in red, I clicked on Turkey and I got a zero and a map of Kenya came up........... then I made a comment and left the scene.
Did you click when your mouse was the little click hand rather than just a cursor? because it's based off of when you are actually hovering over the country, otherwise it will just go to whatever country it randomly started on.
Just what I experienced, sometimes even when I was sure I clicked in the right position. Can't miss Libya when I already got Egypt, I thought... well, a bright red Madagascar showed up...
Some of the clickable areas are definitely off base. Clicking some very obvious locations, like Canada after you've already gotten the USA, will generate "wrong" guesses all over the map, Australia, Chile, Algeria, Yemen, all came up "wrong" when I wan't even close to those points of the map.
Good quiz, fun quiz, but needs a little more debugging.
I just don't get this quiz. I click in the map area and what? There are no reference marks. And even if after trying this quiz a couple times and I know where Canada or the US should be and click the name and move onto the next country like Mexico it randomly pops up with an incorrect country shape like Afghanistan! WTH? Do I need some kind of telepathic ability to know what country this quiz has decided is next?
All of these with the slide bar answers take too long to look around for the name that you know and this one will not go back up to the top for Argentina. A regular list in as many columns as you need below the map would work better. Map is way too small for configurations as well. Nice idea presentation needs work.
Also knowledgeable about geography and maps in particular. But the quiz doesn't work the way the directions state. If I click on the blue (in an area where I assume a large country like Russia or the US to be) it does NOTHING at all. If I reverse the directions and click on a country it counts it wrong and another country shape - in red - shows up (Libya when I clicked on Afghanistan, Egypt when I clicked on Russia). I could not find any other way to make this quiz work. Wish it did, sounds like fun.
You have to click the country in the blue first (make sure the cursor is a hand) and THEN click the appropriate name in the list.
For example, I could take my cursor to the top left of the blue and click. THEN I would search for Canada on the list and click it, making Canada appear green on the map.
I really like this quiz! It was definitely a more challenging variation of this quiz style that really forced me to think about geographical relationships. I know other people said there are bugs, and I think those should definitely be fixed, but otherwise I think this would be a great addition to the front page! Nominated!
I thought I was doing so well! Just 4 countries remaining, then one country turned green instead of red. It turns out that all the countries were supposed to be green and not red. Oh.
I was confused for the first two clicks, then realized what I was supposed to be doing and enjoyed it. Maybe the instructions should read:
Hover over the blue where you think a listed country should be. Click when the cursor becomes and hand, then select your guess from the country list. Rinse. Repeat. Note: avoid scrolling by typing the first letter of your guess.
I challenge you all to try this on a mobile phone or iPad. That is the real test. I did it on my iPad, I did well I guess, but it’s very hard not knowing if you’re even clicking a country. A few times I happened to click the ocean, and when I guessed the country, it said it was wrong but for a completely different country.
This was a good quiz once I figured out how to play it. I didn't notice at first that only the 50 countries are clickable on the map and present in the list, so I was being more careful than I needed to be.
Good quiz, fun quiz, but needs a little more debugging.
For example, I could take my cursor to the top left of the blue and click. THEN I would search for Canada on the list and click it, making Canada appear green on the map.
Anyway, like other people, I struggled a lot to understand the instructions... could you maybe explain them better?
Also, i was a bit confused by the map: which projection did you use? it seems a bit too much vertically stretched
Hover over the blue where you think a listed country should be. Click when the cursor becomes and hand, then select your guess from the country list. Rinse. Repeat. Note: avoid scrolling by typing the first letter of your guess.