Can you name the tripoints between US states? by DJC_83

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United States Tripoints Quiz

by DJC_83

Created Mar 31, 2010 in Geography
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	DJC_83:	Mar 31st, 2010 at 04:08 GMT		2 points
	A tripoint (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoint), as used here, is a geographical point where the borders of three states intersect. To play this quiz, enter the postal abbreviations of each group of 3 US states which meet at a tripoint. For example, if the borders of Maine, Texas, and Washington happened to intersect at a tripoint (which, of course, they do not), you could type in METXWA, MEWATX, TXMEWA, TXWAME, WAMETX, or WATXME. The order of states within each group of three doesn't matter. Questions are welcome. Good luck!

	ctbrainiacs:	Mar 31st, 2010 at 04:27 GMT		0 points
	Why won't it accept the states in any order other than alphabetical?

	hartfan:	Mar 31st, 2010 at 04:29 GMT		0 points
	It's not alphabetical. It only accepts a certain order.

	DJC83:	Mar 31st, 2010 at 04:35 GMT		2 points
	You have to name three states which meet at a particular tripoint for each answer (using their postal codes). Within each 3-state group, the order doesn't matter, but you have to list all three.

	teffty24:	Mar 31st, 2010 at 06:45 GMT		0 points
	Yea Iowa-Illinois-Wisconsin greater tri-state area!

	Anne13:	Mar 31st, 2010 at 14:46 GMT		3 points
	Good quiz! I appreciate the effort put into this.

	DJC_83:	Mar 31st, 2010 at 15:06 GMT		3 points
	@Anne13: Thanks! I was going to make a quiz for international tripoints as well, but it would have been too big for Sporcle to handle.

	Pit_trout:	Mar 31st, 2010 at 15:29 GMT		2 points
	@DJC_83: would it still be too long if you did it for the continents separately? Africa, Asia, Europe would each surely be quite good individually; I guess the Americas don't have many and Oceania has none... Lovely quiz!

	DJC_83:	Mar 31st, 2010 at 15:37 GMT		3 points
	@Pit_trout: No, the problem is that each answer is too long. I tried doing this one using all combinations of the full names of the states in each group, but it was more text than you can input for each answer. For the fake example I gave in the first comment, the full text that I'd have to put in for the answer would be "Maine-Texas-Washington/Maine Texas Washington/Maine Washington Texas/Texas Maine Washington/Texas Washington Maine/Washington Maine Texas/Washington Texas Maine." That's why I had to use the postal abbreviations instead. Since countries don't have any well-known abbrevations like the US postal ones, I can't include all permutations of each group of three countries. The only other way around it would be to force users to input the countries alphabetically, which I think would be a source of much frustration. And given the low turnout for this quiz, I'm not sure it's worth it. But thank you kindly for your support.

	park022:	Aug 4th, 2010 at 11:18 GMT		1 point
	Awesome quiz... I enjoyed it! Maybe less time would make it more challenging...

	BoomRShine:	Jan 18th, 2011 at 14:55 GMT		3 points
	This quiz is missing the Illinois-Indiana-Michigan tripoint and the Michigan-Minnesota-Wisconsin tripoint. Map: http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4128/tripoints.png

	BoomRShine:	Jan 21st, 2011 at 15:12 GMT		1 point
	The map above is incorrect. The Illinois-Indiana-Michigan tripoint is a bit further south. Also, there is an additional missing tripoint - the Illinois-Michigan-Wisconsin tripoint. Here is a better map: http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/4128/tripoints.png

	tahitiwahini:	Apr 27th, 2011 at 15:21 GMT		1 point
	@DJC_83: This is an absolutely fantastic quiz, a terrible shame it hasn't received the plays it deserves! Like the water border bonuses and the DC bonuses, but would have handled the Four Corners quadripoint differently. A quadripoint satisfies all the requirements for a tripoint, just as a square satisfies all the requirements of a rectangle. On that basis, I would have liked to see AZ-CO-NM, AZ-CO-UT, AZ-NM-UT, and CO-NM-UT as regular answers. Anyway: Favorite, 5 globes, and nominated.

	pcs123:	Oct 12th, 2012 at 00:12 GMT		1 point
	Good quiz, just a shame that the answers have to be in a certain order.