A USA Geographical Puzzle that is a bit tricky

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Yep, those interior states are hard. My test had IIRC six interior states to begin with. Without a bordering state it gets a little difficult to do accurately.

[Chris Padilla]

I got started off with Tennessee...tough one!

[Richard M. Wolfe]

92% 10miles 394sec
Wyoming was the third or fourth one with nothing else around it. Boo hoo

[Jerome Hanby]

84%, 32 miles, 449 seconds

Should have been a little better, I let the mouse button slip and it cost me one huge penalty.

92, 22, 273 second try

[Bruce Shiverdecker]

86% 24 miles

Bruce

[Mike Blessing]

98%, 1 mile. The only one I missed was Wyoming. I know where it is - I live 40 miles south in Colorado, but I had no other states nearby to go by.

[Dave Lehnert]

82% 49 miles

[Chuck Saunders]

96% 3 miles missed 2, Missouri with no reference and there was some place called Rhode Island? that I missed on the east coast by 26 miles. My mouse cursor was bigger than that state.

[Chris Padilla]

Try number 4. I got Missouri and Utah as my first two states!! I was shocked that I nailed them both.

[Art Mulder]

Not a very meaningful test. The states appear to come up in a random order. Florida is always easy to place exactly, but if you get a bunch of interior states like Colorado, Missouri & West Virginia first without an existing state to reference them, you will come out much worse.

This.

Oh, and WV, and MD have got to have some of the weirdest shapes around.

(Canadian here...)

[Chris Padilla]

Art, agree. Notice that the shapes and state sizes get a lot more simpler the further West one goes.