I was quite pleased with my score. See if you can beat me...
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6/10 and one silly mistake so ... 7/10
A dotted line to show location of the missing country would help
I got all 10. 8 of them were easy, the other two were got by a process of elimination. 
Saint posted:6/10 and one silly mistake so ... 7/10
A dotted line to show location of the missing country would help
Since the point was to see if YOU noticed the missing country, a dotted line would be counter productive and would just be 'name this country'.
8/10 Which is amazing for me as Iâm rubbish at geography.
Baz posted:8/10 ....got caught by Iran and North Korea
I got caught by Korea too.
Yogi19 posted:8/10 Which is amazing for me as Iâm rubbish at geography.
Surprised yourself. 
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:Yogi19 posted:8/10 Which is amazing for me as Iâm rubbish at geography.
Surprised yourself.
Yes but there were a couple of lucky guesses
Yogi19 posted:Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:Yogi19 posted:8/10 Which is amazing for me as Iâm rubbish at geography.
Surprised yourself.
Yes but there were a couple of lucky guesses
Me too, but I tried to eliminate what I knew and hopefully in the process finding the answer.
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:Yogi19 posted:Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:Yogi19 posted:8/10 Which is amazing for me as Iâm rubbish at geography.
Surprised yourself.
Yes but there were a couple of lucky guesses
Me too, but I tried to eliminate what I knew and hopefully in the process finding the answer.
I did that with the Cuba one
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:I got all 10. 8 of them were easy, the other two were got by a process of elimination.
Coming into this a bit late, but I got 10/10 too.
The only one that I had to be careful with was the Caribbean one: the map appeared so small on my screen that I had to zoom in to see the islands correctly.
I do have some sympathy for New Zealand: not only is their flag often confused with Australia's but they really are often left off of maps: notoriously, they didn't even make it onto the original Risk game map...
As an aside:
One of the questions reminded me of the old joke about those maps that show only EU countries, and how Scandinavia looks a bit, erm, "odd" without Norway...
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Saint posted:6/10 and one silly mistake so ... 7/10
A dotted line to show location of the missing country would help
Since the point was to see if YOU noticed the missing country, a dotted line would be counter productive and would just be 'name this country'.
Yeah
Saint posted:6/10 and one silly mistake so ... 7/10
A dotted line to show location of the missing country would help
Oh .. and a silly mix up with Denmark, Sweden and Finland ... but who knows the arrangement up there anyway (interchangeable and no one would notice, lol) so . . .
8/10
Country in Africa
C _ _ _
_E_ _ N
Saint posted:Country in Africa
C _ _ _
_E_ _ N
Pretty certain I've got the answers, but I'll leave it for a while to let others have a go...
Continuing on from New Zealand's problem with some maps, see how long it takes you to spot what's wrong with this map that appeared in Gardens Illustrated:
[BTW, I know Shetland and the Channel Islands are missing, but I'm giving GI a "bye" on those as both would appear "off the page", as it were... ]
I can see the problem Engenie
AI
Saint posted:I can see the problem Engenie
AI
There are at least two major problems, Saint...
IoM and Cumbrae
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:IoM and Cumbrae
Looked again and I can just make out Cumbrae! 
So it's IoM and A
IoM I saw was missing within a few seconds - A took longer!
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:IoM and Cumbrae
Looked again and I can just make out Cumbrae!
So it's IoM and A
Blimey: you've got cracking eyesight if you can make out Cumbrae on that! 
TBH, at that scale I wouldn't get too bothered about them missing out the really small islands such as the Scilly Isles - it's leaving out the islands that are bigger (in one case, more than twice as big) as the Isle of Wight that is unbelievable! 
And yes - the two you're referring to are the ones I had in mind. 
Eugene's Lair posted:Saint posted:I can see the problem Engenie
AI
There are at least two major problems, Saint...
Yes I know
A - Anglesey
I - Isle of Man ... hope it's ok to say them now
Baz posted:Baz posted:Saint posted:Country in Africa
C _ _ _
_E_ _ N
Chad ?
Benin?
Well done !!! BOTH correct . . . did you look them up?
Saint posted:Eugene's Lair posted:Saint posted:I can see the problem Engenie
AI
There are at least two major problems, Saint...
Yes I know
A - Anglesey
I - Isle of Man ... hope it's ok to say them now
Ah, right. You were a little too cryptic for me there, Saint: I thought "AI" meant "Anglesey Island". I had picked the map to show Anglesey missing (which has become a common, local, version of the "New Zealand effect"), but then noticed just before posting that the IoM was missing too.
I can sort-of understand why the Isle of Man sometimes gets left off maps, but the way in which Anglesey is often left off just seems plain weird to me. When I was young, I thought it was just part of the mainland (in the same way that a lot of people don't realise that Portsmouth - or more, accurately, Portsea - is an island), so it seemed doubly strange for it to vanish from maps.
This example - from the Royal Horticultural Society - has got to be the weirdest. Virtually all of Anglesey has disappeared, but they've left Holyhead on!
8/10 - didn't get the middle east one and the Caribbean one
