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    A USA Geographical Puzzle that is a bit tricky

    Here's a USA geographical puzzle that is a bit tricky to do. I scored 84% with an average error of 65 miles. How'd you all do?


    http://jimspages.com:80/States.htm
    Been around power equipment all my life and can still count to twenty one nakey

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    Neat game to test the memory!

    I scored 90% with an average error of 16 miles...

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    98% 1 mile 593 secs

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    92% and average error of 28 miles, guess my goeography skills are better than I thought.

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    90%. Average error 24 miles. That's a tough one!
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    Score:94%, Average error: 12 miles. And that is just recently out of college!

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    100% with 6 miles; Mrs. Gunther my geography teacher would have been proud. I did one of these on the Middle East now that was a different story!

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    94% avg. 6 miles avg.

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    OK, someone has to post something worse than I did!!!! I did have a couple of mouse drag and drop click errors in there that may account for 2-3% error rate. But I did score higher than LOML did. She did have a reply back that some of the smaller states are smaller than some of our counties in our state
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    96%, 4 miles. I only played once. Do the states come up randomly in a different order each time? That would make some difference as placing an interior state without a border to match up with is a lot harder. That's where I had my only problems.

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    92%, 8 mi, 333 sec
    Tom Veatch
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    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.
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    first try was 84% and 82 miles

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    I was defeated miserably.

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    86%, 48 miles.............All those motorcycle vacations seem to pay off........Rod.

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