Not a robot
Not a Robot: The Americas
Prove you’re not a robot: a map of the Americas without names under a grid. Click every square with part of a country that fits the clue, like “starting with C”. Three strikes, 2:30, a new clue every round.
- Squares
- 0/?
- Strikes
- 0/3
- Time
- Time left: 2:30
Start the quiz to see the map and your clue, such as “Countries starting with C”. Click every square that holds part of a country that fits, even a small part. A wrong square costs a strike, and 3 strikes end the round; a square where a country that fits only grazes the edge counts neither way. You have 2:30. Keyboard: the arrow keys move, Enter picks a square.
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How it works and how the squares are measured
Every round gives you a criterion, such as “countries starting with C”, and a map without names under a grid of squares. Click every square that holds part of a place that meets it. A right square turns green; a wrong one keeps a red cross, tells you what is there and costs a strike. Three strikes, the timer or giving up end the round, and then every place that met the criterion is named on the map, with the squares you found, missed or got wrong. A challenge link replays the same round in the same language.
A place counts in a square only when it covers a visible part of it: at least 3% of the square, and more than a thin strip along an edge (measured on the very outlines you see, on a fine lattice of points in every square). Where a place only grazes a square, that square is neutral: clicking it costs nothing and does not count. Every place has at least one square, so a small island country always counts where its ring is drawn.
Criteria: the first or last letter of the names in this language (accents aside, so É counts as E), the places that border a named one, and for countries landlocked countries, island nations and, in Europe, the 27 member states of the European Union. Borders, landlocked countries and island nations are those of our other quizzes; where a fact could be argued (a doubtful border, a country that is arguably an island), that place’s squares are neutral.
Countries are drawn from the Natural Earth 1:50m shapes; places outside the quiz are grey and never count. Overseas departments count with their country (French Guiana with France, in the world round). Asia leaves out Russia and Egypt, which are in our Europe and Africa rounds; Europe includes Turkey, Cyprus, Kazakhstan and the Caucasus, like our other European quizzes that accept them.