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WARNING: This page may contain spoilers for the current challenge in the geography guessing game "Where in the World?" by acidus. If you want to figure out the answer for yourself, you may wish to stop reading here.
You can play "Where in the World?" at the link below:
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #642 • 2024-05-03 ✅✅✅✅❌⬆️ ✅✅✅✅❌↗️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬆️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬆️ ✅✅✅✅❌↗️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬆️
(Answer: Tunisia)
Holy cow, I feel stupid for not getting this. I think Tunisia has even been featured on WitW before, and I got it right on the first try.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #641 • 2024-05-02 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Cameroon)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #640 • 2024-05-01 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Azerbaijan)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #639 • 2024-04-30 ✅✅✅❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Peru)
My first guess was Liberia. Right placement of the country relative to the larger continent, but wrong continent. I didn't realize Peru was so much bigger than Liberia!
Where In The World? • Puzzle #638 • 2024-04-29 ✅❌❌❌❌⬅️ ✅❌❌❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↙️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Bahamas)
Hey, at least I eventually got it.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #637 • 2024-04-28 ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Syria)
I should have known this one! I knew I recognized the shape, but I couldn't remember if it was Iraq or Syria.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #636 • 2024-04-27 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Gibraltar)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #635 • 2024-04-26 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Brazil)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #634 • 2024-04-25 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: New Zealand)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #633 • 2024-04-24 ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️ ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬆️ ✅✅✅❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌➡️
(Answer: Samoa)
I'm still terrible at my tiny Pacific and Caribbean islands. American Samoa was a very close guess, though; I should have stayed on that track!
Where In The World? • Puzzle #632 • 2024-04-23 ✅✅✅✅❌⬆️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
I first thought this country might be Kenya, and that the large cutout to the northeast could be the border of Somalia. How wrong I was! Instead, the cutout is Jordan's border with Saudi Arabia.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #631 • 2024-04-22 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Oman)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #630 • 2024-04-21 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Mongolia)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #629 • 2024-04-20 ✅✅❌❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌↙️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬆️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Rwanda)
This is a new one to me! With all the recent fuss about the UK's Rwanda plan, one would think I'd know the country a little better by now.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #628 • 2024-04-19 ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Nigeria)
I didn't trust my instinct, so I picked Côte d'Ivoire first. I should have gone with my gut.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #627 • 2024-04-18 ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬇️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬇️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Albania)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #626 • 2024-04-17 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Colombia)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #625 • 2024-04-16 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Mongolia)
When places like Singapore appear in WitW, their tiny size greatly magnifies curves in the coastline and other geographical features. Mongolia has the opposite problem: the country is huge, but the WitW image makes it look small for some reason.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #624 • 2024-04-15 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: United Arab Emirates)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #623 • 2024-04-14 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Cambodia)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #622 • 2024-04-13 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Papua Ne Guinea)
A place I'd love to visit but would not want to live in.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #621 • 2024-04-12 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: China)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #620 • 2024-04-11 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Switzerland)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #619 • 2024-04-10 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Lebanon)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #618 • 2024-04-09 ✅❌❌❌❌➡️ ✅❌❌❌❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↗️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Kyrgyzstan)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #617 • 2024-04-08 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Angola)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #616 • 2024-04-07 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Bahamas)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #612 • 2024-04-03 ✅✅✅✅❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Burkina Faso)
Some of these West African countries have pretty similar shapes, but rotated, flipped or scaled. I find it difficult to identify them in isolation.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #611 • 2024-04-02 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Greece)
Just yesterday my wife and I discussed how lovely it would be to holiday in Greece. Maybe this is a sign.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #610 • 2024-04-01 ✅❌❌❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Christmas Island)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #609 • 2024-03-31 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Albania)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #608 • 2024-03-30 ✅❌❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅❌❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Seychelles)
I would never have gotten this one without the directional clues. I always forget about the little islands off the east coast of Africa!
Where In The World? • Puzzle #607 • 2024-03-29 ❌❌❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Barbados)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #606 • 2024-03-28 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Pakistan)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #605 • 2024-03-27 ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Armenia)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #604 • 2024-03-26 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Uzbekistan)
I knew this one was a central Asian country, but I wasn't sure which one. My gut, however, told me Uzbekistan, and my gut was right. Uzbekistan has a highly-varied eastern border with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, but its northern and western border with Kazakhstan has a lot of straight lines--most notably the western border, which runs straight north-to-south.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #603 • 2024-03-25 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Cameroon)
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