Games & Quizzes

Globetrotter XL
Globetrotter XL is an online geography game with a twist: you’re given the name of a city and challenged to put it on the map, but your score is determined by how close to the target you can get, in kilometres — it isn’t enough, in other words, to get…   Read more →
Posted on Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 12:24 PM
Categories: Games & Quizzes
Gerrymandering as Computer Game
The Redistricting Game is a surprisingly addictive Flash-based, online game that illustrates the state of electoral redistricting in the United States. It is, in a nutshell, gerrymandering as computer game: your missions include stacking the deck on behalf of your party, protecting all incumbents, and creating a minority district —…   Read more →
Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 at 4:21 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps, Games & Quizzes
SF Chronicle Geography Quiz
Finally, a geography quiz that isn’t a variant of pointing to a country on an interactive map. This quiz, though, isn’t interactive; it’s simply the online version of a feature that appeared in yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle, so it’s just a list of questions followed by a list of answers….   Read more →
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Posted on Monday, December 19, 2005 at 10:05 AM
Categories: Games & Quizzes
A Google-Powered Map Game
I’ve posted those interactive geography games and quizzes before, and I’ve posted Google Maps-based sites before, but I think that Find the Landmark is the first map game that is powered by Google Maps (rather than Flash). Here’s how Geoff Menegay, who developed it, described it to me: A game…   Read more →
Posted on Monday, August 1, 2005 at 9:40 PM
Categories: Games & Quizzes, Hacks & Mashups
The Mapquiz
Marc de Kam writes to plug his map quiz site, called, oddly enough, The Mapquiz: “The mapquiz shows you a series of mapfragments, and each time the question is: where is this? Some fragments are placed in a different perspective, others ripped out of their context. Just for fun.” In…   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at 8:25 PM
Categories: Games & Quizzes
European Capitals Quiz
Another damn geography quiz (see previous entry): this one, from the German version of RTL, requires you to throw a dart on the capital cities of various European countries; you’re scored based on how off the mark you are. In German, with German grades (one to six, with six being…   Read more →
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Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 at 10:00 AM
Categories: Games & Quizzes
Another U.S. States Quiz
Another geography quiz — this one requires you to drag and drop each state onto a map of the U.S. Harder than it looks: if you’re off by even a bit, it’ll mark it as wrong. Via Travel Writers. (See previous entries: U.S. States Geography Quiz; Geography Olympics; Geography Quizzes.)…   Read more →
Posted on Thursday, December 9, 2004 at 4:32 PM
Categories: Games & Quizzes
U.S. States Geography Quiz
Another Flash-based geography quiz (see previous entry) has been posted to MetaFilter: this one tests your knowledge of the 48 contiguous states of the continental U.S….   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 at 9:13 AM
Categories: Games & Quizzes
Geography Olympics
Another geography quiz — the Geography Olympics — has been posted at MetaFilter. While I generally stand by the comments I made in this entry back in April 2003, this one at least has a good, Flash-based user interface. Still, the Pacific islands got me every single time (you have…   Read more →
Posted on Thursday, September 2, 2004 at 2:44 PM
Categories: Games & Quizzes

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