Find Country on Map Game
How to Play
Find Country on Map is a simple game in which you have to click on a map to locate a country. Read the instructions below the map and when asked to find a country you should click on the map where that country is. If you get the answer correct you will then be asked to find another country. Every time you get a country correct you get 1 point.
You can always pan and zoom the map to make finding an accurate place to click more easy.
When you get one wrong or when you complete the game, you will be able to enter you name into the high score list.
Click on restart game at any time to start again from the beginning.
Difficulty Ranking
This game will record every time someone gets an answer right or wrong. By totaling up these values, it can then be determined which country's are generally harder to find than others. Then, when someone else comes along to play the game they will be presented with easier country's first, and as the game proceeds the countries will get more difficult to find.
Therefore over time this game will have a better difficulty curve that will score players in a fairer way.
High Scores
Name | Score | |
| 1 | fretyk | 33 |
| 2 | Importwein | 32 |
| 3 | Mohammed Madani | 28 |
| 4 | Importwein | 26 |
| 5 | Cam | 24 |
| 6 | jakub | 24 |
| 7 | Tony | 24 |
| 8 | Importwein | 24 |
| 9 | Elin S | 24 |
| 10 | Susana P | 24 |
| 11 | Advi | 22 |
| 12 | Filipi | 21 |
| 13 | sheilla | 20 |
| 14 | NebulaNinja | 19 |
| 15 | jakub | 19 |
| 16 | Llama | 17 |
| 17 | laz | 15 |
| 18 | MARIE MARIE | 15 |
| 19 | Mjay | 12 |
| 20 | Mag | 11 |
| 21 | Jakub | 11 |
| 22 | Matt | 11 |
| 23 | Llama | 7 |
| 24 | Cam | 6 |
| 25 | Penis | 5 |
| 26 | byd | 4 |
| 27 | Mag | 3 |
| 28 | ishan | 3 |
| 29 | Bazinga | 3 |
| 30 | sandeepa | 3 |
| 31 | Mag | 1 |
| 32 | lighting | 1 |
| 33 | New zealand | 1 |
| 34 | cvbvb | 1 |
| 35 | Mag | 1 |
| 36 | km | 1 |
| 37 | Abhi | 1 |
| 38 | Rob | 0 |
| 39 | AustrAlia | 0 |
| 40 | z | 0 |
| 41 | stan smith | 0 |
| 42 | Dhairya | 0 |
| 43 | Nev | 0 |
| 44 | mark | 0 |
| 45 | ingo | 0 |
| 46 | lera | 0 |
| 47 | 7 | 0 |
| 48 | bobbi Jay | 0 |
| 49 | frank | 0 |
| 50 | manish | 0 |
| 51 | Tom | 0 |
| 52 | malyssa | 0 |
| 53 | metin007 | 0 |
| 54 | metin007 | 0 |
| 55 | robert kett | 0 |
| 56 | ella | 0 |
| 57 | oli | 0 |
| 58 | stan smith | 0 |
| 59 | ingo | 0 |
How It Works
Put simply it uses Click for Country, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, AJAX and Google Maps API.
For any other information regarding this game or if you notice any bugs with it, please contact Daft Logic.
Version History
Version 1 (10/01/2008)
- Basic game created
Version 2 (12/01/2008)
- Added high score list
- Added Difficulty Ranking feature
Version 3 (20/01/2008)
- Scroll wheel zoom function added
Version 4 (09/10/2008
- Scroll wheel zoom function removed
- Fixed recent issue that stopped the country identification working
- Fixed issue where completing the game did not bring up a prompt to enter your name! Only getting a country wrong would make it appear
- Reset high score list
- Reset country list (it will now recreate itself automatically)
Version 4.1 (15/02/2009)
- Scores will reset every week
Version 4.2 (23/06/2009)
- Updated code for easier method to find county names
Version 4.3 (15/12/2009)
- Implemented geocoder.setBaseCountryCode('UK'); in attempt to make all country names return in the same language for all visitors.
Version 5.0 (10/11/2010)
- Implemented Google Maps API V3
Version 5.1 (15/12/2010)
- mapTypeControl is now hidden
Version 6 (18/01/2012)
- Implemented google.maps.Geocoder() which should give more consistant country names (Local language should not matter)
Previous Comments For This Page
maybe it works better if you fix the first country...australia
By better???!!! on 26/01/2012Well I rocket to the top with 41 (where's Slovakia)
On 20/01/2012Should be working better now...
By Daft Logic on 18/01/2012Doesn't work well. I know were Brazil is, yet it says its wrong. And absolutely I'm not marking another country.
By A on 17/01/2012This game is amazing I got 28 on my third shot but there is a problem with the 28th one.
By Allen liang on 26/12/2011there is a problem with paraguay location...
By dan on 21/11/2011Great game :) Got 29 and going to boost it!
By Con on 17/11/2011Country borders (but no names) should be added. Many times I know where two countries are relative to one another, but don't know exactly where the borders are (this makes small land-locked countries especially difficult e.g. Luxemborg, Liechtenstein.)
On 19/10/2011the game really doesn't know where Brazil is... that's a shame
On 24/09/2011Darren, BOlivia is "on the other side" ;)
By sebm on 03/08/2011Nice, I finished the game.
Pretty tough because you dont see the frontiers and some countries are very small or inland.
By sebm on 03/08/2011Bolivia got me. :(
Cool though. :)
By Darren on 14/07/2011game does not work... or the US mysterically disappeared from the face of the earth
On 19/06/2011does the game not work no more?
i just clicked about 20 times on the usa and the program said wrong each time
- and i know where the usa are ;-)
By snoopy on 06/06/2011I got 13, didn't know where sudan was :S
Awesome game, though!
Maybe for some future improvements:
Have countries nearer to the ip of the user at the beginning, so it's like a custom difficulty curve. Obviously, people from Europe are going to have an easier time pinpointing switzerland than people from south America, and vice-versa.
Show the location of the country the user gets wrong at the end, so they can inprove their geo skills!
On 03/06/2011i scored 45 i cant find paraguay
By jad on 01/05/2011crazyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
By mad melon on 15/03/2011Got in top 40 on first go, yay! Defeated by black hole in south american geography! lucky there weren't too many sub-sahara african ones as that is an even deeper black hole my my geopgraphical knowledge!
By Stinley on 09/03/2011hi i got 18 points and i am not gonna tell you my name haha suckers
On 19/02/2011Who ever said that this game is cheap and boring,you're cheap and boring!
On 17/02/2011This game is really fun and I only got 8 points!:)
By brayan on 03/02/2011good one to increase your geography
On 24/01/2011I love the idea of building the learning curve democratically. But you might consider building a set of curves according to the users location/ip. Also, scoring should be suspended when the user sets the map style to Map! Cool game. Cheers!
By M. McCutcheon on 15/12/2010you can just change the settings to map and then get all correct
By Hugh Jass on 12/12/2010i used to be first on 49 but its gone now :@
By NTB John on 29/11/2010It is a very nice game. I am also working on similar application using Silverlight for Windows 7 phone.Please can you tell me how to get country name using longitude/latitude?
By Junaid on 22/11/2010This game is fun, could be more fun by asking randomly and by fixing some bugs (like missing Russia????)
Oh, btw, if you choose Map or Terrain from the map layout selector every country is outlined and even labeled :D
By John on 19/11/2010According to this game I got like 10 times Russia wrong! It really has to be fixed
By S A L A M I O U Cyprus on 08/11/2010wow 33 first try
On 03/11/2010i lost three times it is boring
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