How Well Do You Know Your World?

February 20, 2008 9:24 AM

How Well Do You Know Your World? Because you should have to wait until Friday for Flash Fun.
posted by armoured-ant (12 comments total)

By 'should', I meant 'shouldn't', obviously.
posted by armoured-ant at 9:25 AM on February 20, 2008

I'm pretty sure this is a double.
posted by inconsequentialist at 9:29 AM on February 20, 2008

if not a triple
posted by dontoine at 9:33 AM on February 20, 2008

I saw this linked off of SharpBrains last week, and played. It's fun.
posted by cashman at 9:34 AM on February 20, 2008

they still haven't enlarged the map, I notice.
I'd play more if they did. considering it's all about how close you are with your pushpin, the puny size is a tad aggravating.
posted by Busithoth at 9:41 AM on February 20, 2008

WHY! WHY? Why don't people who make fully-articulated vector-based flash thingies embed them on web pages in such a way that you can resize them with your browser window? Unplayably small! Boo. Hiss.
posted by damehex at 9:49 AM on February 20, 2008

Damn, only got 53439 out of 55000 on level 11. The map size is annoying.
posted by GhostintheMachine at 9:59 AM on February 20, 2008

Workaround, if you like this game but don't like squinting:
Install firebug or any other dev tool that lets you edit html on the fly, or save the page locally and edit it. Search/replace 625 to 1250 and 500 to 1000. Voila!
posted by damehex at 9:59 AM on February 20, 2008

Yeah, it's a triple, but still fun.
posted by inconsequentialist at 10:02 AM on February 20, 2008

Huh. Just did it again, and the easy world places included Westminister, Buckingham Palace, AND Big Ben. Interesting randomization there.
posted by GhostintheMachine at 10:06 AM on February 20, 2008

I got to level 10, and missed proceeding by just 100 points.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 10:14 AM on February 20, 2008

It's just as annoyingly difficult to put the pin in teeny countries as it was the first three times, dang it.
posted by rtha at 10:18 AM on February 20, 2008