How well do you know the world? Every game here shows you a place -- a state, a country, a capital or a flag -- and you type it as fast as you can.
A state lights up on the map -- type its name. Start with the big, well-known ones and work up to all 50.
A state lights up with a star on its capital -- type the capital. From Boston and Denver to Pierre and Montpelier.
A country lights up on the globe -- type its name. One continent at a time, an easy or a hard half of one, or all 197.
See the country, its flag and the star on its capital -- type the capital. From Paris to Ngerulmud.
A flag comes up -- type the country it belongs to. From 10 easy flags to every flag there is.
These aren't just quizzes. Every game is built to take you from "no idea" to knowing every place by heart -- a small chunk at a time, with as much help as you need and no more.
Turn on Learn and the answer appears in grey for you to type over. Level 1 shows the whole name; level 2 the first two letters, then one more each second; level 3 the first letter, then one more every two seconds. You see it, type it, remember it -- nothing is scored.
From Beginner -- a handful of the best-known places -- up through Easy, Intermediate, Advanced, Elite and Insane to Legendary, which is all of them. Each step brings in harder places, so you are never facing all 197 at once.
Practice just the Northeast, just Africa, or just the Caribbean. Europe, Africa and Asia also split into an Easy and a Hard half, so you can drill exactly the places you keep getting wrong.
Press Tab and the next letter appears. It costs you five seconds, so you'll want it less and less -- which is exactly the point.
The map turns to each place and names its neighbours -- or, in a region, shows the whole region at once -- so you learn where things are, not just what they're called. Tiny places get a ring, and far-flung islands a dot on every island, so you can always find them.
A box on the map can show the country's flag and its capital -- or the state's capital in Type the States, and "Capital of ..." in the capitals games -- so you learn two things at once. Keep it on while you learn, then switch it off to test yourself.
When you think you know them, turn on Big Brain: just the shape -- no names around it, no flag or capital, and no clue how long the answer is. If you can do Legendary in Big Brain, you really know your geography.
Every mode keeps your best times, and there's a high score board for each one. Achievements reward finishing harder and harder difficulties at a good pace.
You're typing the whole time, so your speed and accuracy improve as you go. On the map games your speed counts only the time spent typing, not the time spent finding the place.
Log in and every place you needed a hint for, or were slow on, goes on your practice list -- one list for each game, just under it. Add any others yourself with the bookmark button on the game, set what matters most, and play rounds of just your list (they don't count on the score boards). A place comes off once you get it three times in a row without help, so the list keeps shrinking to exactly what you still need to learn.
Choose one region -- the Northeast, or Europe Easy -- or the Beginner difficulty. Eight to thirty places is plenty for one sitting.
Turn on Learn at level 1 and play the round. Each answer is shown for you to type, right on the map where it belongs.
Move to level 2, then level 3: the letters come more slowly, so you start finishing the names from memory.
Turn Learn off. Use Tab for a letter when you're stuck -- every place you need a hint for, or are slow on, goes on your practice list.
Play rounds of just your practice list until it's empty, then play the chunk again until it's quick and clean -- and move on to the next region or the next difficulty.
Switch off the flag-and-capital box, try Big Brain, and finally take on Legendary -- every place, no help at all.
Getting ready for a states-and-capitals quiz or a world map test? Learn one region a night in Learn mode, work through your practice list, then check yourself with Big Brain before the test. Ten focused minutes beats an hour with flash cards.
Put a game on the projector as a warm-up, or have the class work through the same region and compare times on the score board. The difficulties and regions make it easy to match a lesson -- and students practice their typing at the same time.
Planning a trip, sharpening up for trivia night, or finally learning where all those countries in the news actually are? A few rounds a day and the map stops being a mystery.
Ready? Start with a game you know a little -- and work up to the ones you don't.
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