Suggest to make small countries more discoverable. There are some countries I couldn't locate during the "memorized" phase. I'm on mobile so the screen size may be limited

I like the concept. Even though I wouldn't bother with flags, but trying to locate a country based on its name is a very good exercise for everybody.

Here's a tip:

You should never have a button suddenly change functions underneath a user's cursor without any warning -- ESPECIALLY while doing a repetitive task.

The Anki deck Ultimate Geography is pretty much this game and more:

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2109889812

It works on the phone with AnkiDroid too.

This is great Carl! Glad I follow you on Twitter as I missed this on HN.

I too have really wanted something like this for a long time (have some ideas about extra difficult parts like learning to draw the outline of a country) and really enjoyed playing it! I just did one round and got to a score of 123 but had a wonderful time. Well done on the great game!

A few suggestions: 1. This is mentioned already and I see you're aware, but it can be very hard to find somewhere like British Indian Ocean Territory 2. The dropdown options seems to be correct on the default option a good bit more than you would expect by chance. 3. The app doesn't seem to keep a long term history of ones I've seen, so got shown some—Comoros and Papau New Guinea were particular offenders for me 4. Sometimes I think you can cheat using the hover tooltips? 5. Dropdown options are sometimes pretty easy as there is only one option that you have actually encountered. 6. The flag dropdown could be bigger—some flags are hard to distinguish when they're small

And the final suggestion that is (presumably, though I could be wrong) out of your control: There are too many Guineas! C'mon planet earth, get creative.

I also did really enjoy hunting for the small (but not too small) islands and think that will lodge them better in my brain! And thanks again for making and sharing your game—really appreciate it and I learned a lot!! :) Think I'll be coming back for more!

I watched Cheers religiously when it was on and there was an episode where Coach was helping Sam study for a geography test. His trick was to remember facts with songs and because of that episode, I know Albania borders on the Adriatic, is mountainous, and chief export is chrome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F_tT-q8EF0

Just a little remark, a few times I was just clicking "memorized" for several countries and didn't notice when it was actually a question, and clicked "submit" by error.

I think there should be more difference between the "memorized" and the "submit" buttons.

The game also considers French overseas territories as "countries" and uses some local flag for some.

Keep up the awesome work, Carl!

I absolutely also loved your house building post. For people that didn't read it yet: https://carltheperson.com/posts/my-house/

Your world view is awesome and I especially admire it from a person your age.

In grad school in a class on the Semantic Web, we created a very simple iOS flashcard game that used flags, animals, monuments, and a few other details to help kids remember details about countries. It was a good exercise to pull all of these bits together using Linked Data, although I am not sure how well it would have scaled.

I have a video of it somewhere ...

ETA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vev_2MATqNQ

Thank you. I think I'll actually use this. A small suggestions: when asking to recall a country name (or flag), only show choices from the already presented countries.

Kinda fun.

A couple suggestions:

1. It would be great to add Capital Cities and perhaps population numbers also. And make each data-type optional. Eg, so that one could learn/quiz about Countries and Capital Cities only (no flags, location, or population) if desired.

2. The map needs to zoom in when showing a country. Sometimes I couldn't even see the country.

Does anyone remember a 90s Encyclopedia CD-ROM that featured a game where the player is presented with photos from different countries and has to guess the origin? That game was foundational for me and I can't find any reference to it.

Here is similar project https://youtu.be/sLqXFF8mlEU

Cool project, you can also add the option to guess the population and have a scoreboard of who was the least wrong.

Why do the Flags not show up ?