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Where In The World? • Puzzle #400 • 2023-09-04 ✅❌❌❌❌↘️ ✅✅✅❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬇️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Réunion)
What a featureless lump of an island.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #399 • 2023-09-03 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Gibraltar)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #398 • 2023-09-02 ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↙️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Albania)
Albania looks like an elongated shield.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #397 • 2023-09-01 ✅✅✅✅❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Palau)
I'm glad I got this one right from memory. Tight cluster of islands to the northeast with a scattering of other islands so small they don't show up in the ASCII representation at all? Gotta be Palau.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #396 • 2023-08-31 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Ireland)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #395 • 2023-08-30 ✅✅✅❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅❌❌⬆️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↙️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Montenegro)
My first guesses were Myanmar and Kenya, which were both wildly off. They did, however, clue me into the fact that I needed to got Europe. Serbia, my third guess, actually shares a border with Montenegro.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #394 • 2023-08-29 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Poland)
NOT TODAY.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #393 • 2023-08-28 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉```
(Answer: Saint Kitts and Nevis)
FINALLY! I recognized this one from a previous day, and while I did reference my notes to give me a hint, I don't consider that cheating.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #392 • 2023-08-27 ✅❌❌❌❌➡️ ✅✅❌❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬇️ ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↖️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Puerto Rico)
Yes, I cheated on this one. No, I don't care or have any regrets, especially since it's yet another island in the Caribbean, and Puerto Rico isn't even its own country. Better to just look it up, note its defining features (a shape that resembles a plastic drink bottle lying on its side, with two notable smaller islands to the east and one to the west, for future reference), and move on.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #391 • 2023-08-26 ✅✅✅✅❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↖️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↖️ ✅✅✅✅❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️
(Answer: Guinea-Bissau)
Come ON! It's been an extremely long time since I've failed getting three countries in a row in this game. This one was particularly frustrating, though, since I knew immediately that Sierra Leone bordered it to the south and Senegal bordered it to the north. Can't I get half-points if I know exactly where on the map it is, but I just can't remember its name?
Where In The World? • Puzzle #390 • 2023-08-25 ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️ ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅✅❌❌↙️ ✅✅❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅❌❌➡️
(Answer: Cocos Islands)
I confused the Cocos Islands with Turks and Caicos, which is in the Caribbean. It's a fair assumption that if the country in question is a very small island that I don't recognize right away, I'm going to get it wrong.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #389 • 2023-08-24 ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ❌❌❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬇️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬆️ ✅✅✅❌❌➡️
(Answer: American Samoa)
Well this is embarrassing, especially since American Samoa is a territory of the country of which I am a citizen. Honestly there's not much to go on for next time, except possibly the winding shape of the eastern half of the island.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #385 • 2023-08-20 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Madagascar)
The island of Madagascar looks oddly like a bottle opener to me, probably due to the hook shape of the northeastern Masoala Peninsula.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #384 • 2023-08-19 ✅✅✅✅🤏↗️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Finland)
I have no excuse for not getting this right on the first try.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #383 • 2023-08-18 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: India)
This map considers Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, and Arunachal Pradesh to all be part of India. Of course that's the case de facto, but I'm sure China and Pakistan are not that happy about it.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #382 • 2023-08-17 ✅✅❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↗️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↙️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↗️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Poland)
I have no trouble identifying Burkina Faso, Turkmenistan or New Caledonia, but give me a major European country and I falter! Two things threw me about this depiction of Poland. First, the map projection used for "Where in the World" made Poland look much flatter than it really is. Second, the high-resolution image made the large waterways of the Gdansk region look like small docks like in Gibraltar or Hong Kong, making me think the country was tiny.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #381 • 2023-08-16 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Oman)
Oman has shown up a number of times now.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #380 • 2023-08-15 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Qatar)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #379 • 2023-08-14 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Austria)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #378 • 2023-08-13 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: South Africa)
Where's Lesotho?
Where In The World? • Puzzle #377 • 2023-08-12 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Belarus)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #374 • 2023-08-09 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Democratic Republic of the Congo)
In my opinion, one of the most recognizable countries in Africa.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #372 • 2023-08-07 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Singapore)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #370 • 2023-08-05 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Oman)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #369 • 2023-08-04 ✅✅❌❌❌↗️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Belgium)
Belgium is my arch-nemesis in this game.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #368 • 2023-08-03 ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬆️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬆️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬇️
(Answer: Guadeloupe)
Oh COME ON! the Caribbean, my arch-nemesis, strikes once again. What's so frustrating about this one is that I know I've seen it on WitW before, and I recognized the shape as being somewhere in the Caribbean, but I couldn't remember which country it was. There are just so many tiny island nations down there!
Where In The World? • Puzzle #367 • 2023-08-02 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Niger)
Interesting that Niger would be the pick for today. The country is currently facing a military putsch, which has dominated international headlines for the past week.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #366 • 2023-08-01 ✅❌❌❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️ ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬇️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️
(Answer: Aruba)
My weakness strikes again: Caribbean islands!
Where In The World? • Puzzle #365 • 2023-07-31 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Cambodia)
Where In The World? • Puzzle #364 • 2023-07-30 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Belarus)
I knew this country's shape was familiar! My brain was screaming that this was a European country, but for some reason my mind said Bulgaria at first. I thought about it more and then remembered Bulgaria's shape, so I started in central Europe and mentally worked my way up and around. It was only then that I realized the answer was Belarus.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #363 • 2023-07-29 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Mauritania)
I only recognized this one because I noticed that Western Sahara slots perfectly against the country's northwest border.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #362 • 2023-07-28 ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Haiti)
I had absolutely no idea until I guessed Antigua and Barbuda, just to get my bearings. The eastern border of the country threw me off, as it looked like a shoreline to me. As soon as I realized it was in the Caribbean, it dawned on me.
Where In The World? • Puzzle #361 • 2023-07-27 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉
(Answer: Western Sahara)
Western Sahara is considered by the United Nations to be a non-self-governing territory. It is the most populous such territory and the largest in area by far. Also it looks like a gun.
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