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Duncan Young wrote:
Top 22%!
I am a surrender monkey!
Rand Simberg wrote:
Pretty good, Duncan. Get out your white flag and cheese.
My biggest downfalls were confusing Austria and Hungary (and I put Belgrade too far north), and not knowing that that German-sounding place was in Sweden. Must be a(n otherwise undistinguished) Lufthansa hub.
As I said, if one had endless time to waste, it would be possible to fine tune to a very high score. Sadly, I suspect that most people (especially Americans, but probably Asians and Africans even more) wouldn't even be able to find the continent on a globe.
Pete Zaitcev wrote:
I've got 12239 of 108864. Am I supposed to divide them (11.2%)?
Rand Simberg wrote:
Am I supposed to divide them (11.2%)?
Yes, or at least that's what I did. Good for you, especially considering you're doing it from Down Under.
Karl Hallowell wrote:
Oh well, 27595/109099. I feel so inadequate compared to you guys. ;-)
If I'd been an actual pilot on some of those flights, I would be in Gitmo now for the number of hijackings and crash landings I perpetrated. And yet I still scored almost 25,000 points, so...
27411. Sad, since I've actually been to about half of the targets.
Leland wrote:
21573, which I think is good since I've never been to Europe.
Habitat Hermit wrote:
Hmm I bet you're talking about Gothenburg Rand (Gøteborg in Norwegian and Göteborg in Swedish). I guess the umlaut only makes it look even more German to those unfamiliar with Swedish.
Second largest city in Sweden, not known as a Lufthansa hub at all ^_^
Habitat Hermit wrote:
Sorry about the weird characters, they displayed correctly in the preview. In the Norwegian name it's o with a slash and in the Swedish name it's o with an umlaut (sounds the same).
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This page contains a single entry by Rand Simberg published on February 7, 2008 1:47 PM.
Top 22%!
I am a surrender monkey!
Pretty good, Duncan. Get out your white flag and cheese.
My biggest downfalls were confusing Austria and Hungary (and I put Belgrade too far north), and not knowing that that German-sounding place was in Sweden. Must be a(n otherwise undistinguished) Lufthansa hub.
As I said, if one had endless time to waste, it would be possible to fine tune to a very high score. Sadly, I suspect that most people (especially Americans, but probably Asians and Africans even more) wouldn't even be able to find the continent on a globe.
I've got 12239 of 108864. Am I supposed to divide them (11.2%)?
Am I supposed to divide them (11.2%)?
Yes, or at least that's what I did. Good for you, especially considering you're doing it from Down Under.
Oh well, 27595/109099. I feel so inadequate compared to you guys. ;-)
If I'd been an actual pilot on some of those flights, I would be in Gitmo now for the number of hijackings and crash landings I perpetrated. And yet I still scored almost 25,000 points, so...
27411. Sad, since I've actually been to about half of the targets.
21573, which I think is good since I've never been to Europe.
Hmm I bet you're talking about Gothenburg Rand (Gøteborg in Norwegian and Göteborg in Swedish). I guess the umlaut only makes it look even more German to those unfamiliar with Swedish.
Second largest city in Sweden, not known as a Lufthansa hub at all ^_^
Sorry about the weird characters, they displayed correctly in the preview. In the Norwegian name it's o with a slash and in the Swedish name it's o with an umlaut (sounds the same).