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US MAP GAME: Can you place the states in the proper spot on a blank USA map?

Seeded on Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:17 AM EDT
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  • 1 vote
Reply#1 - Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:18 AM EDT
Jack TX

That's really cool.

    #1.1 - Sat Aug 1, 2009 12:08 AM EDT
    frostyone

    90% 18miles 419sec 1 attempt. I'll have to try it again after sleeping alittle

    Rhoad Island got me

      #1.2 - Sun Aug 2, 2009 8:09 AM EDT
      looselucy

      RI is so small the cursor almost completely covered it.

        #1.3 - Sun Aug 2, 2009 9:57 AM EDT
        USAF Vet-923294

        Yeah. I am using my daughters computer, because mine is down and her curser is huge.

        • 1 vote
        #1.4 - Sun Aug 2, 2009 7:16 PM EDT
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        Kate In Greensboro

        That was fun! Thanks.

        I scored 92%, Average error 17 miles, time 450 sec.

        I'm going to forward the link to both of my sons.

        • 1 vote
        Reply#2 - Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:19 AM EDT
        looselucy

        Yes, that was fun.
        96%, avg error 4 miles, 506 seconds (though I did walk away for a few to tend my 2 year old) :)
        Kansas was the one that got me, I was actually very close considering only WI, CA, and NC were already in place, had it slightly too far west (98 miles), and I placed Delaware slightly too far south, but did mostly overlap where it was supposed to be.

        • 1 vote
        #2.1 - Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:41 AM EDT
        Kate In Greensboro

        It is hard to place some of those land-locked states correctly when there's nothing around them to guide their placement! Vermont got me. I guess, based on what you said, the order is different each time. I might just try it again!

        • 1 vote
        #2.2 - Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:56 AM EDT
        redsfan

        wow...the only one I was far off on was tennesse...it was early in the session and I put it way too far south and west.

        • 2 votes
        #2.3 - Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:06 AM EDT
        spiffie

        I may have gotten lucky. I got a fair number of border states in the early rounds, but finished with 100%, avg error 0 miles.

        • 2 votes
        #2.4 - Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:41 PM EDT
        puffin prophet

        92%; 6 miles; 344 sec

        I suppose that was kind of fun. A couple of early on landlocked States got me.
        Zom Zom's comment is hilarious.

          #2.5 - Sat Aug 1, 2009 6:46 AM EDT
          Uncle Nick

          96%, 6 miles... didn't check the time (1600 something secs), had to take the dogs out in the middle of it.

          • 1 vote
          #2.6 - Sun Aug 2, 2009 12:41 AM EDT
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          Zom Zom

          Yeah right. Like anyone knows where Kansas is, for goodness sake. And since when was Iowa a state? And they straight-up invented "Kentucky." That isn't a state--it's a fast food place.

          F this game. :)

          • 2 votes
          Reply#3 - Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:46 PM EDT
          iconoclasm

          LOL that's where I had the advantage knowing which way the river runs. Now those rectangle states, can't place them can't name them.

          • 1 vote
          #3.1 - Tue Aug 4, 2009 10:05 PM EDT
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          MJV in Wisconsin

          96%
          5 miles
          319 seconds.

          I missed on wyoming and missouri (the first two I had to place)

          • 1 vote
          Reply#4 - Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:22 PM EDT
          USAF Vet-923294

          I got 90%. The ones missed were like Kansas. They give it to you as the very first one with out any reference, so you are 20 or 30 miles off. I LIVE IN OKLAHOMA - MY WIFE'S FAMILY IS FROM KANSAS - I KNOW WHERE KANSAS IS. LOL

          Other then that frustration (they did the same with Kentucky and North Dakota) it was a bit fun.

          • 1 vote
          Reply#5 - Sun Aug 2, 2009 2:00 AM EDT
          Uncle Nick

          I had that problem with Connecticut... I didn't have any others in that area yet, and I was (or at least I thought I was) fairly close, just a few miles off.

          • 1 vote
          #5.1 - Sun Aug 2, 2009 2:32 AM EDT
          Soovivers

          I KNOW WHERE KANSAS IS

          lols Ben - at least you got Oklahoma...

          Tricky little thing huh? I got 39 right but several were in the area but not 100% in the space provided. But I'll take 39 - not bad for an old lady....

          • 2 votes
          #5.2 - Sun Aug 2, 2009 8:24 AM EDT
          Desertzonie

          Yeah -- I knew where everything went but missed perfect placement on a few -- especially the little ones -- missed RI 3 times just couldn't get the mouse to put it where I wanted it -- must be gettin OLD.

          • 1 vote
          #5.3 - Tue Aug 4, 2009 10:17 PM EDT
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          Jack TX

          98%

          1 mile

          364 seconds

          I missed Kansas by 19 miles on the very first one.

          • 1 vote
          Reply#6 - Sun Aug 2, 2009 2:08 AM EDT
          redsfan

          Kansas on the first one...that's almost not fair.

          • 3 votes
          #6.1 - Sun Aug 2, 2009 9:50 AM EDT
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          cookin mama

          Had trouble with the east coast.

            Reply#7 - Sun Aug 2, 2009 2:33 AM EDT
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