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Where In The World? • Puzzle #550 • 2024-02-01 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Thailand)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #545 • 2024-01-27 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Vietnam)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #544 • 2024-01-26 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Brunei)
Brunei is a very oddly-shaped country. Its biggest geographic giveaway is the exclave of Temburong, which is quite large relative to the rest of the country. The smooth northern border of Brunei's western half is the northern coast of Borneo. I'm happy I got an obscure one like this!
Where In The World? • Puzzle #542 • 2024-01-24 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Ethiopia)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #538 • 2024-01-20 ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅✅✅❌↖️ ✅✅✅❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅❌↖️
(Answer: Nauru)
No hope--not when an island has that few defining features and simply appears as a formless blob.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #537 • 2024-01-19 ✅✅✅✅❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Burkina Faso)
My first guess was the Central African Republic, and I was so sure of my answer that I actually thought the game suffered from a glitch when I got it wrong. I opened up Google Earth to confirm, and lo and behold, the answer was Burkina Faso, not CAR. That was a tricky one!
Where In The World? • Puzzle #536 • 2024-01-18 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Italy)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #535 • 2024-01-17 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Argentina)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #531 • 2024-01-13 ✅✅✅✅🤏↖️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Myanmar)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #530 • 2024-01-12 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Maldives)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #528 • 2024-01-10 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Cayman Islands)
Correctly identifying two Caribbean island nations in a row on the first try!? I'd better not get cocky, but I'm proud of the fact that I'm beginning to recognize these countries on my own.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #527 • 2024-01-09 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Bahamas)
I'm impressed I got this one!
Where In The World? • Puzzle #526 • 2024-01-08 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Austria)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #525 • 2024-01-07 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Cameroon)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #524 • 2024-01-06 ✅✅✅✅🤏↖️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↖️ ✅✅✅✅❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Guinea-Bissau)
Guinea-Bissau has tripped me up before. I really did not want that to happen again today.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #523 • 2024-01-05 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Zimbabwe)
I find the history of Zimbabwe, particularly in the second half of the 20th century, to be quite fascinating.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #520 • 2024-01-02 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Cambodia)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #518 • 2023-12-31 ❌❌❌❌❌➡️ ✅✅❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅❌❌↗️ ✅✅✅❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↖️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Malaysia)
WOW, this is embarrassing. I completely forgot that a large part of Borneo belongs to Malaysia; I assumed I was looking at two relatively-small islands in the middle of an ocean somewhere.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #517 • 2023-12-30 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Iran)
I feel pretty good for getting this one right.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #515 • 2023-12-28 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Kazakhstan)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #514 • 2023-12-27 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Latvia)
I'm glad I made a note to myself that Latvia looks like a vulture. That's the only reason I got this on the first try.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #513 • 2023-12-26 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Cyprus)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #512 • 2023-12-25 ✅✅✅✅❌⬆️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️
(Answer: French Guiana)
I was fooled by the first clue, saying the target country is north of Brazil. French Guiana is indeed north of Brazil!
Where In The World? • Puzzle #511 • 2023-12-24 ✅✅✅✅❌⬇️ ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Nigeria)
I feel a little silly I didn't get this one right away.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #505 • 2023-12-18 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Somalia)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #504 • 2023-12-17 ✅❌❌❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Réunion)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #503 • 2023-12-16 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Morocco)
Morocco has one dead giveaway: the straight southern border that separates it from Western Sahara. I mostly know Morocco from its pavilion at Walt Disney World's EPCOT park, which is a massively-underrated pavilion, for the record.
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