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Where In The World? • Puzzle #750 • 2024-08-19 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Israel)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #749 • 2024-08-18 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Oman)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #748 • 2024-08-17 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Portugal)
This took me a lot longer than it should have.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #747 • 2024-08-16 ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↖️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Czechia)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #746 • 2024-08-15 ✅✅❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️ ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬆️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️
(Answer: Dominican Republic)
Small islands truly are my nemesis! I don't even know how I might be able to describe it in order to recognize it later. Is it a shoe with a spike on the bottom of the heel? Is it a sideways Liechtenstein? I don't know.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #745 • 2024-08-14 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Mauritania)
Fun fact: Mauritania was the last country in the world to officially abolish slavery, in 1981.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #744 • 2024-08-13 ❌❌❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬇️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬇️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬇️
(Answer: Trinidad and Tobago)
My first guess was deliberately wrong just to get my bearings, but I didn't expect it to be almost antipodal to to actual answer. In fairness, the real answer was a Caribbean island, so how was I supposed to get it? For future reference, Trinidad looks like a fat "J" and Tobago looks like an apostrophe.
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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