Rec of the day

[astridv]

Cool game: Name the Countries of Europe. The links for the other continents are under the Europe map.

The roommates and I had a lot of fun playing this game late at night, staying up way longer than planned. We played it with three people and pooled our knowledge, and still didn't get all of them. I would say it's also educational, except I just played the Europe map again and didn't get a higher number than the last time we tried it...

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Looks like the DDOS attack on LJ is still ongoing so I'll crosspost later. It seems that DW has been slower than usual, too, I'm guessing due to the added traffic from bereft LJers.

Comments

[ratcreature]

I only got 41 of the 47, though one of that was that embarrassingly I forgot how to spell Liechtenstein correctly, even though I tried to enter that country. The others I didn't think of were San Marino, Montenegro, Albania, Moldova and Monaco.

[astridv]

I forgot Liechtenstein entirely, I kept mispelling Luxembourg, and I wrecked my brain but the name for Ukraine just wouldn't come to me. And I always forget Vatican City. I missed eight altogether, but those were the d'uh ones.

Before this game I didn't even know that there's a country called San Marino.

[ratcreature]

I know San Marino mostly because as a kid I collected Disney-themed stamps, and aside from some tiny island nations like Antigua & Barbuda and such San Marino is one of the countries who do Disney series all the time. Though when I was little I didn't know it was inside Italy, but thought it was an island in the Caribbean like the other places the stamps came from.

[schneefink]

Does it still count if I had to use a dictionary?
Definitely educational: I don't think I'll forget the Netherlands again. *sigh*

[astridv]

Definitely educational: I don't think I'll forget the Netherlands again. *sigh*

Heh. I thought "There's a country called San Marino?" and then I remembered that I thought the exact same thing last time I played this game.

I once made a puzzle of all the states of the US that turned out to be really educational (as a side effect). I still remember a good number of them. I guess because it involved all the senses, what with the cutting of the cardboard and the painting of the tiny little states. It was a fun project.

[sholio]

Okay, that was dismal - I only got 34! Though in a lot of cases, it was because I couldn't remember how to spell it; I don't know how many different ways I tried to spell "Belarus" without hitting the right one, let alone Bosnia & Herzegovina. *facepalm*

[astridv]

I did it a second time today and still managed to miss Montenegro, Cyprus, and Kosovo.

I found that the yearly extravaganza of crackiness that is the Grand Prix d'Eurovision is downright educational. Especially since all the countries are announced in English.