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Where In The World? • Puzzle #650 • 2024-05-11 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Egypt
Where In The World? • Puzzle #649 • 2024-05-10 ❌❌❌❌❌⬅️ ✅❌❌❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅❌❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅❌❌↖️ ✅✅✅❌❌↖️
(Answer: Guam)
Holy cow, that's embarrassing.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #648 • 2024-05-09 ✅✅✅✅🤏↖️ ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬆️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬇️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Saint Lucia)
Made it just under the wire again!
Where In The World? • Puzzle #647 • 2024-05-08 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Greenland)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #646 • 2024-05-07 ✅✅✅✅🤏↖️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Gambia)
There are too many countries in Africa whose names begin with the letter "G".
Where In The World? • Puzzle #645 • 2024-05-06 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Antarctica)
It's hard to mistake the big continent at the bottom lf the world.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #644 • 2024-05-05 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Guyana)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #643 • 2024-05-04 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Armenia)
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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