Find The Mystery Country Using Hints - Randomized!
To start, name any country. Use the colour clues in the map legend to find the mystery country. When you guess the mystery country, the quiz is over - you win!
To address a few questions repeatedly asked in the comments:
- A landmass is any contiguous piece of land, such as Afro-Eurasia, Borneo, Hispaniola, etc.
- Names as in the Countries of the World quiz are used, so the last letter of the USA is S (United States)
- French Guiana is an overseas department or France, not an overseas territory. Therefore France is on both the landmass of the Americas as well as Afro-Eurasia, while it's continent is still Europe
Originally there was a little bit more explanation but that seems to have been removed once this was featured. The quiz works as follows:
- Type any country. The country will show up in one of 12 colours. Say we type China.
- Use the legend on the bottom left of the svg to see what the colour means. For example, China shows up in yellow, meaning the mystery country is on the landmass of Afro-Eurasia, but not in Asia, doesn't start with C, and doesn't end with A.
- Using that info, we type the next country. Let's say we pick the DR Congo, which shows up in black. This means the mystery country is in Africa, doesn't end with O, but starts with D
- We then pick Djibouti, with which the quiz ends as it was the mystery country :)
Takes a little to learn what all the colours mean but once that's down pat its mostly straightforward
I also hate when I forget the one other country that starts with the same letter in the continent. In africa i forgot Madagascar existed, had every other african country starting with M covered.
Ok, I LOVE the idea of this. But the results this time were super confusing to me.
After not getting it the answer was apparently South Sudan, which is bright green for some reason? Is green the color for both "First Letter" and the mystery country?
Also, why were all the stans in Central Asia showing up as light blue? Is Africa considered part of the same landmass as Eurasia despite the Suez Canal??
Finally, after the whole map is revealed most of the countries show up as red, as if they're all on the same continent. Is red at the end just anything I didn't guess in addition to indicating the same continent?
If you don't guess the mystery country it shows up in default JetPunk green, if you do guess it it shows up in gray. I'll change this during the next update since I see where that can be confusing. All the Countries you didn't guess show up in default JetPunk wrong answer red, which doesn't have a specific meaning.
As for the landmass, I indeed ignore man-made canals, so the Suez canal and the Panama canal are excluded
I have no idea how to do this. I guessed a bunch that were white, then got to some red and time ran out. I still don't know what the correct answer was, as my red ones were Australia and New Zealand. The time isn't long enough, either - or maybe once I understand this more, it will be ok. Why isn't the answer shown, though?
The instructions are really unclear. It should tell you that the color in the key tells you what the mystery country has in common with the country you typed.
bro I got it in 3, i start this quiz by guessing usa, uk, then uae because it is easy for me to type all of them quickly, it turned out that uae was the correct answer. I got it in only 0:04.
Great quiz ! I'd love it if we could see the correct answer clearly written out when the time runs out, with some smaller countries it's very hard to see what the solution was :)
I guessed Jordan while the answer was Thailand, and jordan was only red, instead of purple as it has the same last letter. otherwise, this is my favourite quiz on this website.
Due to the 10,000 answer limit I can only have 51 possible answers at any given moment, which have an equal chance. I do swap out the possible answers every few months
I enjoy this quiz quite a bit. The answers do not seem all that random, though. Norway, Seychelles, Guinea Bissau, Grenada and Tuvalu come up much too frequently.
Thanks! I can see it when it is a bigger country, it's the small ones that are tough to ID. Also, the color looks a lot like the FL & LA color (to my eyes).
Hmm it should look more like just First Letter when you don't guess it. In any case I'm thinking of turning it grey like when you do guess it, I'll do that some time soon to avoid all the confusion
I love this, but am having troubles with a couple of the colours. I'm colour blind. Is it possible to make the FL and LL more distinct? Just a suggestion, it's pretty hard to navigate, but I understand if it's a lot of work.
I love the way that the countries become different colors based on different factors. My fastest time is actually 5 seconds, as I guessed the USA, which glew red, then I guess Mexico and it was right!
i think I'm going crazy, can you please explain this scenario, i guessed china, got me FL and LL, then i guessed sweden, got me the continent, turns out the country was north macedonia, perhaps you used a different name for china, or another name for north macedonia?
Hmm China should have been cyan for Last Letter and Landmass then (LL & LA), and it's using China and North Macedonia indeed. I'll check to see if my algorithm did something weird there, thanks for letting me know!
Edit: the code is assigning LL & LA to China for that one, not sure what happened. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Also I get Suriname quite often, like 1 in 3 rounds, so I feel like there might be something wrong with how the country is randomized. Might be something to look into
There's only 51 options due to the way the quiz is set up, so countries will reappear sooner than expected. Other than that the randomizer is something I cannot influence :)
I absolutely love this quiz, but the scoring doesn't really make sense at the moment. A win automatically awards you 196/196 or 100% and 5 points, and then you can't improve anymore. It would probably make more sense to base scoring on time or something.
Did it again. First guess, USA. Second guess, Brazil. Third guess, Venezuela. Fourth guess, Columbia. Fifth guess, Guyana. Sixth guess, Bolivia. Seventh guess, Argentina. Win!
This is a fun game but when I lose I often cannot see the correct answer. Some countries are so small, and some colors are close in shade. Can it be improved by a simple text at the end "the correct answer is --____"
- A landmass is any contiguous piece of land, such as Afro-Eurasia, Borneo, Hispaniola, etc.
- Names as in the Countries of the World quiz are used, so the last letter of the USA is S (United States)
- French Guiana is an overseas department or France, not an overseas territory. Therefore France is on both the landmass of the Americas as well as Afro-Eurasia, while it's continent is still Europe
Hope this helps :)
- Type any country. The country will show up in one of 12 colours. Say we type China.
- Use the legend on the bottom left of the svg to see what the colour means. For example, China shows up in yellow, meaning the mystery country is on the landmass of Afro-Eurasia, but not in Asia, doesn't start with C, and doesn't end with A.
- Using that info, we type the next country. Let's say we pick the DR Congo, which shows up in black. This means the mystery country is in Africa, doesn't end with O, but starts with D
- We then pick Djibouti, with which the quiz ends as it was the mystery country :)
Me thinking
Types Germany
Game Finished
Takes a little to learn what all the colours mean but once that's down pat its mostly straightforward
I also hate when I forget the one other country that starts with the same letter in the continent. In africa i forgot Madagascar existed, had every other african country starting with M covered.
Once again great quiz!
After not getting it the answer was apparently South Sudan, which is bright green for some reason? Is green the color for both "First Letter" and the mystery country?
Also, why were all the stans in Central Asia showing up as light blue? Is Africa considered part of the same landmass as Eurasia despite the Suez Canal??
Finally, after the whole map is revealed most of the countries show up as red, as if they're all on the same continent. Is red at the end just anything I didn't guess in addition to indicating the same continent?
As for the landmass, I indeed ignore man-made canals, so the Suez canal and the Panama canal are excluded
Now I'll go on a run of nothing rights.
Thanks Albania
I replay it so much, but I often get the same answer. Is there a way you can make it so all the 196 countries got the same chance?
Cause i guessed Haiti and it was red so I skipped the Dominican R...
Thanks for the fun game
I give this quiz 5/5 stars!
I think thats pretty good haha
Edit: the code is assigning LL & LA to China for that one, not sure what happened. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Serbia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Slovakia have at least one country that shares each possible colors
France is the best possible country to start with/get, while Vanuatu is the worst.
Second guess: Mexico = win!
second guess: Russia
win
lol
(and I did it in 5 seconds because whenever I get none on Canada I guess Tuvalu xD)
I will stop for a bit so I dont break the streak lol