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whereshegoes	Jun 25 2007, 09:54 AM Post #1
Journeyer Group: Members Posts: 3458 Joined: 19-September 03 From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Member No.: 5 Nominate me as a Local Expert	So as some of you have already noticed, we here at TravelPod have developed a new game to help test your Traveler IQ. I will warn you, it is VERY addictive. I thought I knew geography but turns out I don't know JACK compared to some of you Earth savvy TravelPodders! If you wanna get in there and try your hand at this fun new application, click the following: Link to install app: http://www.facebook.com/install.php?v=1.0&...3328528a14406a6 Link to info on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.p...3328528a14406a6 More info on TravelPod: http://www.travelpod.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?t...news.1182727987 Have fun and....GOOD LUCK! -------------------- Carmella That's all She wrote

Paul	Jun 25 2007, 10:13 AM Post #2
Navigator Group: Members Posts: 1321 Joined: 9-November 04 From: Thailand Member No.: 98 Nominate me as a Local Expert	That is such an addictive game. But edumacational also. Damn, Thellie how did he get that score? And those that got over 500000?!?!?!

rbisset	Jun 25 2007, 04:21 PM Post #3
Planet Pioneer Group: Local Expert Posts: 2215 Joined: 3-May 06 From: Guildford, UK Member No.: 692	Is there a high score for getting the closest to the destination? I think my 17km's from Singapore would take some beating. -------------------- My Travelogue Rich

kris	Jun 25 2007, 07:48 PM Post #4
Pathfinder Group: Local Expert Posts: 417 Joined: 28-November 05 From: NW London Now_living_in: Jamaica Member No.: 370	this game is good fun, first attempt i didn't get into the 500k club but i got 14kms away (with a little hit-and-hope) after rbissets challenge.. 14clicks --------------------

thellie	Jun 25 2007, 08:56 PM Post #5
Pathfinder Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: 22-August 06 From: far far farang away, but home all the same... Member No.: 13877 Nominate me as a Local Expert	haha paul! i've got so much crap knowledge stored in my head, it's scary. yeah, it's damned addictive... i got to within 7km of tel aviv (i think it was there). i'd like the map a little bigger, but apart from that it's fantastic...

Paul	Jun 25 2007, 09:19 PM Post #6
Navigator Group: Members Posts: 1321 Joined: 9-November 04 From: Thailand Member No.: 98 Nominate me as a Local Expert	Thellie - I beat your score today - just. But the then it wouldn't let me update. NO!!! Closest I've come to things has been about 20 something km. Damn, I am going to have to play again. Hmmm, interesting to learn that my knowledge of Canada is very very bad. And it is such a huge place that when I get their cities wrong it costs a lot of points. Otherwise knowledge of Africa is OK, but a bit hazy in places, USA - know some of, and Europe same. Rest of the world I am pretty happy with. Oh - Brazil is another big country that costs when you put cities in the wrong place.

thellie	Jun 25 2007, 09:41 PM Post #7
Pathfinder Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: 22-August 06 From: far far farang away, but home all the same... Member No.: 13877 Nominate me as a Local Expert	sorry paul, just upped again to 443,000+... why are there only a couple of girls in the top 25? it can't be that their knowledge is worse, can it? or is it just that girls don't like computer games...? discuss.

Paul	Jun 25 2007, 09:48 PM Post #8
Navigator Group: Members Posts: 1321 Joined: 9-November 04 From: Thailand Member No.: 98 Nominate me as a Local Expert	I see your personality is as addictive and competitive as mine. Damn that is a good score. And I was wrong before, the thing did update my other score. Girls - ???? Maybe they are doing what they should be doing, instead of procrastinating like us??

whereshegoes	Jun 25 2007, 10:10 PM Post #9
Journeyer Group: Members Posts: 3458 Joined: 19-September 03 From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Member No.: 5 Nominate me as a Local Expert	Well I am busy making the game better for you guys...that's my excuse and I am sticking to it. Stay tuned for more levels!!! -------------------- Carmella That's all She wrote

peacefrog	Jun 25 2007, 10:11 PM Post #10
Pathfinder Group: Members Posts: 476 Joined: 23-March 06 Member No.: 581 Nominate me as a Local Expert	QUOTE(Paul @ Jun 25 2007, 05:13 PM) And those that got over 500000?!?!?! THEY HAVE A BIG SCREEN , FOR SURE !!! -------------------- A day back around the world « Sans curiosité on meurt et sans courage on ne vit pas. » [ Hugo Pratt ]

thellie	Jun 25 2007, 10:20 PM Post #11
Pathfinder Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: 22-August 06 From: far far farang away, but home all the same... Member No.: 13877 Nominate me as a Local Expert	my finger hurts, and i should be wandering into busan to sort out my broken camera... stupid addictive game...

rbisset	Jun 26 2007, 03:42 AM Post #12
Planet Pioneer Group: Local Expert Posts: 2215 Joined: 3-May 06 From: Guildford, UK Member No.: 692	damn I thought my 17km's was pretty good I'm determined to get on the leaderboard but I am useless at USA/Canada. I get ALL of the Canadian cities wrong (except Quebec and Vancouver) by at least 3000 km's! Also I put the Soloman Islands in the Caribbean and was out by about 22000km's........ -------------------- My Travelogue Rich

Paul	Jun 26 2007, 03:47 AM Post #13
Navigator Group: Members Posts: 1321 Joined: 9-November 04 From: Thailand Member No.: 98 Nominate me as a Local Expert	I got 7km from Helsinki, which was impressive. Never been anywhere near there. Ha ha - I am getting better at Canada. But it is pretty much the Canadian cities and the occasional African country that throws me. Oh and sometimes an island where you just have to put it somewhere in the middle of the ocean, like Micronesia. I really should give up that bloody game now.

thellie	Jun 26 2007, 03:47 AM Post #14
Pathfinder Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: 22-August 06 From: far far farang away, but home all the same... Member No.: 13877 Nominate me as a Local Expert	i'm down to 6km with the battle of waterloo, although i managed to bugger up guinea and new guinea, which are 1000's of miles apart...

thellie	Jun 26 2007, 03:50 AM Post #15
Pathfinder Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: 22-August 06 From: far far farang away, but home all the same... Member No.: 13877 Nominate me as a Local Expert	yeah it's those little african countries, and the newer states in eastern europe and around the caspian sea that always get me too...

Paul	Jun 26 2007, 05:32 AM Post #16
Navigator Group: Members Posts: 1321 Joined: 9-November 04 From: Thailand Member No.: 98 Nominate me as a Local Expert	7 km from some castle in Germany. Ha ha??? Yeah, damn those stans - it is hard to remember one from the other. OK, that is enough. I am going to try to give up. Anyone want to join Traveler IQ anonymous with me? By the way - does anyone else, when looking at the map, have some serious doubts as to Europe's claim to be a continent? It's a bit pitiful for a continent isn't it? Couldn't we give it semi continent status like India? Or perhaps like Pluto, we should just down grade it to a satellite area to Africa and Asia.

fourloves	Jun 26 2007, 09:45 AM Post #17
Globetrotter Group: Members Posts: 254 Joined: 7-June 06 From: Keeanada Eh? Member No.: 2939 Nominate me as a Local Expert	But it IS very dense. And that must average it out somehow. (It's the only reason I count as a person!) -------------------- MacK the Knife "When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep" - Gibran

fourloves	Jun 26 2007, 09:52 AM Post #18
Globetrotter Group: Members Posts: 254 Joined: 7-June 06 From: Keeanada Eh? Member No.: 2939 Nominate me as a Local Expert	And damn you, travelpodders all! These stupid forums convinced me to buy a laptop for photoediting and blogging, then forced me to spend copious amounts of time posting in the forums, THEN got me started on the facebook thing, and now..! Well, I think I should just stop travelling, go home, and spend all my time online. Just develop an e-travel virtual reality facebook plugin and I'm set! -------------------- MacK the Knife "When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep" - Gibran

fourloves	Jun 26 2007, 01:18 PM Post #19
Globetrotter Group: Members Posts: 254 Joined: 7-June 06 From: Keeanada Eh? Member No.: 2939 Nominate me as a Local Expert	Haha nice touch... If one forgets to play, it goes to 99999, and says on the comment titlebar : "bueller? Bueller?" Love it. -------------------- MacK the Knife "When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep" - Gibran

rbisset	Jun 26 2007, 02:52 PM Post #20
Planet Pioneer Group: Local Expert Posts: 2215 Joined: 3-May 06 From: Guildford, UK Member No.: 692	God damn it my knowledge of Canada/USA sucks!!! Couldn't finish level 11. New closest for me: 9km's from Galway, Ireland -------------------- My Travelogue Rich

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