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!

That is such an addictive game. But edumacational also.

Damn, Thellie how did he get that score? And those that got over 500000?!?!?!

Is there a high score for getting the closest to the destination? I think my 17km's from Singapore would take some beating.

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..



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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...

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.

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.

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??

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!!!

THEY HAVE A BIG SCREEN , FOR SURE !!!

my finger hurts, and i should be wandering into busan to sort out my broken camera... stupid addictive game...

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........

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.

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...

yeah it's those little african countries, and the newer states in eastern europe and around the caspian sea that always get me too...

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.

But it IS very dense. And that must average it out somehow. (It's the only reason I count as a person!)

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!

Haha nice touch... If one forgets to play, it goes to 99999, and says on the comment titlebar : "bueller? Bueller?"

Love it.

God damn it my knowledge of Canada/USA sucks!!! Couldn't finish level 11.

New closest for me: 9km's from Galway, Ireland

Jan Mayen, Jan Mayen!!! What the hell is that! I thought it was near Jamaica.

14th baby!!! Still can't complete round 12. Too much random Russia.

Yep, North America kills me.

Haha Rich, look at the ranking, I'm ahead of you!!!
And I got 7km from Dili.

Gosh I have to get out of here... buy a huge wall world map and come back, hahaha

Erm...kinda like me? I suppose we could start a club...

I just played once today. Enjoyed the new countries / places that are in there - some of which I have never heard of and enjoyed playing stage 11.

But that is it. Only one time per day from now on.

Well I guess you would never be a candidate for TIQCA....

TICQABC????

Travellers IQ Challenge Anonymous.... your not invited.

Scince we don't value moderation here at TP, we can't have someone resonable like Paul helping us with said addictions now, can we?...

You're right. I guess I am just jealous that I haven't had a chance to play since the thing launched. You guys are keeping us so busy with developing new levels!!!

And I mean moderation i more than one sense

Did you add the Ferris Bueller reference? At any rate, I'm so impressed about the game, you can be the 'god' of the game, as it were. We bow down before you, you have no need to prove your worthiness!

But I guess if you're devloping it, you belong to TIQCDA!

No way! I will NOT take responsibility for this This is the combined effort of many! Though I will admit my contribution...how else would Edmonton get on the map?

Ha ha, the city I know the best, and yet I was 300km away! The full map is deceiving!

Ah, excuse me - but I was the one who suggested the Traveller IQ anonymous thing. Why am I now not invited???

Damn you all.

Your allowed but you must be the facilitator since YOU don't seem to have a problem...

OK. The first step is admitting your problem. I admit I have a problem, but I am working on it.

It is tempting to play it again, but instead I am going to go eat Thai food (for 20 Baht).

Paul, will you play the guitar for us and console us on our deep problems by relating obscure stories of your past meant to convey pity and some sort of moral direction?

If it is Pad Thai, I don't think I am goiing to speak to you for a very long time. Or at least, for the next hour anyways, while I sit and pout.

Yeah, if there is some money to be made doing that. Perhaps I can get you addicted to attending group sessions and spending money on me helping you.

Not sure if it will be Pad Thai - there is such a massive selection of good food to choose from.


?????? Hmmm, what will I eat today?????

Ok, let's say, 20 Baht.

Baht is for me. $ are for you. $20 OK?

Paul drives a hard bargain...but his services may be well worth it.

If he can pull himself away from the game long enough to eat....oh wise master...how is it done?

Is it very cheaper? And how do I know if you are same same? No, Baht, baht, no joking me, you. 20 baht ok? Very cheaper for me, good for you.

Seriously though...where do these Geography Majors come from? I swear some of these scores are insane. I think the next level has to come without the country...it makes it too easy for these earth experts.

You could reverse it - show the map pin, and have themm tell you the name of the place...

Yes....certainly an evil idea if I have ever heard one....I like