US States location game

Test your knowledge of US state location - it's a lot harder than it looks because you have to get the location exactly right!

Click here to play!!!

for better or for worse, my parents didn't like video games, so they bought Atari's States and Capitol's game to investigate the evils of the computer era.

i had an average error of 13 miles. pretty embarrassing that i missed West Virginia by half a state though.

45 perfect out of 50 turns
Score 90%
Avg Error 32 Miles
Time 347 Secs

anybody care to see if they can name all 50 states and match them with their capitols?

88%, 21 miles, time 337

Connecticut was a baffler with no other new englanders to clue me. And my Wyoming drifted east....

47 out of 50 perfect
Average error 9 miles.

Now that my exam is over... I got to play the whole thing - this wasn't my exam - it was actually on real estate finance.

My results:
94%
Average Error: 7miles
47/50

22 miles because I didn't realize they wanted it perfect. What the hell is the sense of using a computer if you have to put it right on the money. :p

I think it makes a big difference what order they happen to come up in. There are a ton I know I would have gotten wrong if two or three bordering states weren't already in place.

49 out of 50, 98%, Avg. error 3 miles

But this is tricky...it depends on what order you get the states. I played again and got a bunch of the big square states right in the beginning, with nothing around them. I got creamed.

I screwed up tennessee big time... and i've played twice and that one messes me up each time!

47 out of 50 ... I think I had a 13 mile avg. error. I did this at work, and forgot to email myself the results.

My excuse is that I have a Bachelor's Degree in Geography. Really.

46 out of 50 with a 12 mile error. I slipped with the mouse on one and dropped it half a state away.

I was damn lucky to place Nebraska perfectly with no border states present.

Score 90%
Avg Error 20 Miles

86% 42 miles error, 265 seconds. And I completely blew Connecticut (placed it by New Hampsire)

94%, 11 miles, 339 seconds. Got Rhode Island and Delaware's locations switched. Lucked into Connecticut and Vermont, though. How do you people keep track of those little tiny eastern states? I would be utterly lost within 3 hours.

mrnoodle wrote:

...How do you people keep track of those little tiny eastern states? I would be utterly lost within 3 hours.

It's easy, in 3 hours you could traverse most of New England. Plus we express distances up here by time traveled rather than miles, Boston is about an hours drive from here, Vermont is 2 hours, Maine...give it about 2 and a half hours to the border. ;)

404Error wrote:

It's easy, in 3 hours you could traverse most of New England.

Try adding 7 hours to that. Maine is big (for New England.) And that's ignoring Vermont completely.

I guess your car isn't as fast as 404's. :rollhappy

Actually, traverse was probably the wrong word. I meant you could reach most of the NE states borders from where I am in CT in about 3 hours.

44 out of 50, 386 seconds, 26 miles. If you get states in the middle of the country in the beginning, it's tough. Plus I accidentally slipped up with the mouse button on California, which was really bad.

90% perfect, 31 miles avg error, 631 seconds -- first try, will try again after I finish 6th grade geography.