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MemberScoreTimeDate
1 gecian 100% 0:31.5 min. 3 Sep, '12
2 BoboLo 100% 0:38.5 min. 30 Aug, '12
3 makropulos 100% 0:50.9 min. 27 Aug, '09
4 Eiwob 100% 0:53.6 min. 12 May, '08
5 tickman 100% 0:57.7 min. 9 Feb, '08
6 Sab 100% 1:10.2 min. 1 Sep, '12
7 aliqali 100% 1:26.5 min. 31 Aug, '09
8 fengniubee 100% 1:33.7 min. 6 Sep, '12

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sugarmonkey , 3 days ago
Not Where You Think

Not Where You Think

created by tickman, 5 years ago in Geography

Sure you know the names of these places, but I've chosen lesser-known cities with the same names (no duplicates, though).

Map by the US Department of Interior

Tags geography, place-names, usa

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Comments (8)

hfgxg

hfgxg

Guessed Los Angeles right!

8 months ago

BoboLo

BoboLo

Such a clever game - the ultimate in counter-intuitive!

8 months ago

makropulos

makropulos

This is delightful in a rather confusing way !

1 year ago

slaaty

slaaty

Cute, but I appreciate BoboLo's concern. If they were the secondary cities of said name, that would be one thing, but usually these are tertiary, quaternary or worse.

3 years ago

tickman

tickman

Hi Geodude:

You asked:

"Is there any logic in this or is it random?"

The logic is that each of these city names is well known. The trick is that I've chosen relatively unknown (or at least lesser-known) cities which correspond to these names. In most cases, I had numerous choices of alternate cities to pick from. I tried to spread them out around the map.

Really, it's nothing but learning the off-locations as they appear in the game. Not very logical, just kind of a challenge.

4 years ago

geodude

geodude

Is there any logic in this or is it random?

4 years ago

BoboLo

BoboLo

I'm scared to play this in case I forget where the better known cities are located! (Call me a wimp ...)

5 years ago

tickman

tickman

I found the map here:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:US_map_-_states.png

It is in the public domain.

5 years ago