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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 #743 • 2024-08-12 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Myanmar)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #742 • 2024-08-11 ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Gabon)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #741 • 2024-08-10 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Sweden)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #740 • 2024-08-09 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Nepal)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #739 • 2024-08-08 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Brunei)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #738 • 2024-08-07 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Antarctica)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #737 • 2024-08-06 ✅✅❌❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↙️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↖️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: El Salvador)
What a formless lump of a country.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #736 • 2024-08-05 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Denmark)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #735 • 2024-08-04 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Antarctica)
A travel dream of mine.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #734 • 2024-08-03 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Libya)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #733 • 2024-08-02 ✅✅❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: American Samoa)
This has tripped me up before--and it shouldn't, because this a territory of my home country. American Samoa looks like one of those silly mall-ninja decorative knives.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #732 • 2024-08-01 ✅✅✅✅🤏⬆️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬇️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Latvia)
There are only 3 Baltic states; how hard can this be?
Where In The World? • Puzzle #731 • 2024-07-31 ✅❌❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Costa Rica)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #730 • 2024-07-30 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Djibouti)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #729 • 2024-07-29 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Puerto Rico)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #728 • 2024-07-28 ❌❌❌❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬅️ ✅✅✅❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌➡️
(Answer: French Polynesia)
Where's Tahiti?
Where In The World? • Puzzle #727 • 2024-07-27 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Papua New Guinea)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #726 • 2024-07-26 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Azerbaijan)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #725 • 2024-07-25 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Christmas Island)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #724 • 2024-07-24 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Saint Kitts and Nevis)
The exclamation mark strikes again!
Where In The World? • Puzzle #723 • 2024-07-23 ✅✅✅✅🤏↖️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Guinea-Bissau)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #722 • 2024-07-22 ✅✅❌❌❌↗️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Taiwan)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #721 • 2024-07-21 ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Equatorial Guinea)
It wasn't Guinea. It wasn't Guinea-Bissau. It was Equatorial Guinea. How many Guineas do I have to guess?
Where In The World? • Puzzle #720 • 2024-07-20 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Morocco)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #719 • 2024-07-19 ✅✅✅✅❌⬆️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↖️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Kuwait)
Kuwait sure looks weird when seen in isolation!
Where In The World? • Puzzle #718 • 2024-07-18 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Albania)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #717 • 2024-07-17 ✅✅✅✅🤏↗️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Andorra)
I think I went through these exact steps the last time Andorra was the target country. Andorra looks like a small version of the Iberian peninsula, so my first guess, which I knew was wrong, was Spain.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #716 • 2024-07-16 ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Kyrgyzstan)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #715 • 2024-07-15 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Puerto Rico)
Make Puerto Rico the 51st US state.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #714 • 2024-07-14 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Saint Lucia)
I'm unashamed to admit that I only got this one because I looked at notes from a previous day.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #713 • 2024-07-13 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Moldova)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #712 • 2024-07-12 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Svalbard and Jan Mayen)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #711 • 2024-07-11 ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Cocos Islands)
I knew the Cocos Islands were somewhere near Indonesia and Australia, but I wouldn't be able to say exactly where. This was more a lucky guess than anything.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #710 • 2024-07-10 ✅✅❌❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↖️ ✅✅✅❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬆️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬆️
(Answer: Rwanda)
My last guess was Burundi. I figured this one out just a little too late.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #709 • 2024-07-09 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Armenia)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #708 • 2024-07-08 ✅✅✅✅❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Congo)
This gets me every time! I see the "Y" shape of the country and immediately assume the answer is Mozambique.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #707 • 2024-07-07 ✅✅✅✅❌⬆️ ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Armenia)
Armenia is a tricky country in isolation, because the exclave of Artsvashen looks like it might be an island.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #706 • 2024-07-06 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Australia)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #705 • 2024-07-05 ✅✅✅✅❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Palau)
I knew this one was either Nauru or Palau--I just couldn't remember which.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #704 • 2024-07-04 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Chile)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #703 • 2024-07-03 ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Kenya)
I was so sure the answer was Libya.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #702 • 2024-07-02 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: South Africa)
Lesotho was an answer just a few days ago, but in the WitW pictures of South Africa, Lesotho is included. I find that interesting.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #701 • 2024-07-01 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Tokelau)
I only recognized Tokelau because I'd mentioned in a previous result that it appears only as six dots in the Unicode picture of the country.
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[Last updated: 2024-08-11]