Donate clean water by playing a game? I can do that.

[icarus]

From squishtoy:

Well, if I'm bummed out, at least I can do something for world. Donating clean water by playing a game? I can do that. squishtoy did much better than I did (I didn't realize that you had to put the flag not just in the right country, but near the city they give you -- and then I did worse when I started doing that, ha). WG is going to blow this game away. He can list all those countries in Africa.

Though I'm quite proud I nailed Thimphu, Bhutan. (Psst. It's tiny and next to Nepal.)

Comments

[squishtoy.livejournal.com]

african countries destroyed me in my first round, along with the central asian 'stan' countries. still, water! :)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I get the 'stans by random guesses, but WG gave me a crash course in northern Africa. And I can get Sierra Leone! Woo!

Australia's a dead loss for me. Sydney's about all I know.

[ackonrad.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link - I hadn't had that much fun on the computer for a while!

(http://www.freepoverty.com)</

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I've been having a blast with this, even though I don't see how anyone can donate cups of water. :D

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

I was trying for 500 cups and then my browser crashed. Damn.

This exercise has proven to me that my African and Australian geography SUCK. And that I think Santa Fe is somewhere in southern California.

Re: Gotta brush up on my Algerian geography!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Wildernessguru scored 368 in one session of this thing.

He rocks on Africa and the most obscure places. East Timor? Samoa? Belize? Swaziland?

We both get killed on Australia.

Re: Gotta brush up on my Algerian geography!

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Belize I could probably get. East Timor, maybe. Samoa would require some wild stabbing in the Pacific. Swaziland, inevitably, would be a Wrong.

I couldn't believe I got the Seychelles. I gibbered, clicked somewhere in the ocean...and got a 10. I should have screencapped that one, I'll never find 'em again. *grin*

Re: Gotta brush up on my Algerian geography!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

WG wants to know what your high (single session) score. (Boys. ;)

Re: Gotta brush up on my Algerian geography!

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I don't remember. I just scored 325 on Super-hard, but that wasn't my highest. My highest was 450-mumble.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Australia kicked my ass. And I don't don't know the difference between Algeria and Albania.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Algeria's bigger and farther south of Greece.

I was astonished that I didn't mix up Macedonia and Albania. I knew they were both north of Greece, so I panicked and clicked randomly both times, and both times managed to hit the correct square millimeter of country on the map. I don't know how I did it.

[dingdongdevious.livejournal.com]

Ok, that game was really addicting. I am clueless regarding African geography. I also apparently have no idea where anything in Canada is located . . .

Here's another addicting game: http://www.freerice.com/