A USA Geographical Puzzle that is a bit tricky

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Here's a USA geographical puzzle that is a bit tricky to do. I scored 84% with an average error of 65 miles. How'd you all do?


http://jimspages.com:80/States.htm (http://jimspages.com/States.htm)

[Bob Genovesi]

Neat game to test the memory!

I scored 90% with an average error of 16 miles...

[Bob Lloyd]

98% 1 mile 593 secs

[Bob Vavricka]

92% and average error of 28 miles, guess my goeography skills are better than I thought.

[Brian Kent]

90%. Average error 24 miles. That's a tough one!

[Shannon Kruse]

Score:94%, Average error: 12 miles. And that is just recently out of college!

[Bob Moyer]

100% with 6 miles; Mrs. Gunther my geography teacher would have been proud. I did one of these on the Middle East now that was a different story!

[Ben Rafael]

94% avg. 6 miles avg.

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OK, someone has to post something worse than I did!!!! I did have a couple of mouse drag and drop click errors in there that may account for 2-3% error rate. But I did score higher than LOML did. She did have a reply back that some of the smaller states are smaller than some of our counties in our state:D:D:D

[Rick Moyer]

96%, 4 miles. I only played once. Do the states come up randomly in a different order each time? That would make some difference as placing an interior state without a border to match up with is a lot harder. That's where I had my only problems.

[Tom Veatch]

92%, 8 mi, 333 sec

[John Schreiber]

Not a very meaningful test. The states appear to come up in a random order. Florida is always easy to place exactly, but if you get a bunch of interior states like Colorado, Missouri & West Virginia first without an existing state to reference them, you will come out much worse.

[Mike McCann]

first try was 84% and 82 miles

[Darius Ferlas]

I was defeated miserably.:(

[Rod Sheridan]

86%, 48 miles.............All those motorcycle vacations seem to pay off........Rod.

[Craig Summers]

1st Try
92% (46 of 50 perfect) Avg Error 10mile Time 323 seconds

[Steve Sawyer]

90% 8 Miles

[Irwin Fletcher]

80%, 60 miles. I need to go back to 4th grade.

[Mark Patoka]

92%, 6 miles. Getting some coastal states early definitely helps. So does traveling cross country a couple times.

[Brian Effinger]

I got 98% score - 2 miles average error - 284 seconds.
The only hard ones were Montana & Colorado, because nothing was around them. I got Montana, but I had to adjust Colorado.

[Lee DeRaud]

96%, 4 miles. I only played once. Do the states come up randomly in a different order each time? That would make some difference as placing an interior state without a border to match up with is a lot harder. That's where I had my only problems.Yup: second or third state in for me was Kansas, with no bordering states for reference...missed by 36 miles. Then my twitchy touchpad betrayed me and dropped Georgia in the ocean out around Bermuda while I was moving it. Net result, 96%, 15-mile average error.

[Mitchell Andrus]

96%, 7 miles.

[Jim Kountz]

90% error of 27 miles. 348 seconds

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

86% 44 miles 421 seconds

[Mark Hix]

96% 3 miles.

[Greg Cuetara]

96% 3 miles....missed a few in the middle of the country.

[Martin Shupe]

92%, 9 miles...first state was Iowa....missed it by the most. No reference for where to drop it.

[Mike Cutler]

813 seconds, 100%, 0 avg miles. I'm glad they didn't give me Arkansas, or Kentucky first.:eek:

[Lee Schierer]

98%, 412 seconds, I missed Iowa by 50 miles since it was very early and had no point of refeence. Since I've been in 49 of the states, I should know where they are.

[Roy Wall]

96% -- 3 mile error

That was fun.........

Colorado and Nevada came up early. Any interior states are difficult to get on the money without references for sure. Good game!

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Yep, those interior states are hard. My test had IIRC six interior states to begin with. Without a bordering state it gets a little difficult to do accurately.

[Chris Padilla]

I got started off with Tennessee...tough one!

[Richard M. Wolfe]

92% 10miles 394sec
Wyoming was the third or fourth one with nothing else around it. Boo hoo :rolleyes:

[Jerome Hanby]

84%, 32 miles, 449 seconds

Should have been a little better, I let the mouse button slip and it cost me one huge penalty.

92, 22, 273 second try

[Bruce Shiverdecker]

86% 24 miles

Bruce

[Mike Blessing]

98%, 1 mile. The only one I missed was Wyoming. I know where it is - I live 40 miles south in Colorado, but I had no other states nearby to go by.

[Dave Lehnert]

82% 49 miles

[Chuck Saunders]

96% 3 miles missed 2, Missouri with no reference and there was some place called Rhode Island? that I missed on the east coast by 26 miles. My mouse cursor was bigger than that state.

[Chris Padilla]

Try number 4. :D I got Missouri and Utah as my first two states!! I was shocked that I nailed them both.

[Art Mulder]

Not a very meaningful test. The states appear to come up in a random order. Florida is always easy to place exactly, but if you get a bunch of interior states like Colorado, Missouri & West Virginia first without an existing state to reference them, you will come out much worse.

This.

Oh, and WV, and MD have got to have some of the weirdest shapes around.

(Canadian here...)

[Chris Padilla]

Art, agree. Notice that the shapes and state sizes get a lot more simpler the further West one goes. :D