Can you name the code(s) obtained by completing this African puzzle? by tobley

Can you name the code(s) obtained by completing this African puzzle?

created by tobley

Enter a code in the box below
Correctly named codes will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Some wrong answers will appear in red
Western Sahara included. By doing better on the puzzle, you will get better codes. After you are done, enter the code(s) in the sporcle to submit your score. Fixing rotation/size will be penalized.
Also try: African Capital per Letter
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At least 10
At least 15
At least 20
At least 25
At least 30
At least 35
At least 40
At least 45
All gotten
Above 30 minutes
Under 30 minutes
Under 20 minutes
Under 15 minutes
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No rotation fixing
No size fixing

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☀ African Puzzle ☀ Quiz

by tobley

Created Nov 20, 2011 in Geography
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	ambition:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 02:35 GMT		24 points
	Excellent work. Anyone who can do this without rotation and size fixing must be some sort of witch.

	coulraphobic123:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 02:51 GMT		8 points
	I can do this without rotating and resizing...but how can you? When I try to place the countries where they should be, they don't "snap" into place...it seems it only lets you place them by resizing and rotating them.

	ambition:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 02:53 GMT		9 points
	@coulraphobic: I think if you manually resize and rotate with the arrow keys that's not the same as clicking 'r' or 's' to automatically change all of them. Not positive, although I don't know how else you could finish the puzzle since as you say they don't snap into place automatically.

	coulraphobic123:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 03:01 GMT		2 points
	Nevermind...I figured it out...I think you mean "largeness" instead of "largness" for the top prize ;-) great idea for a game.

	tobley:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 03:24 GMT		15 points
	Thanks! Yeah, you use up and down to make the countries bigger or smaller and you use left and right to rotate counterclockwise and clockwise. Right now, the countries have to be within ±6 pixels for both the x and y direction, within ±9 degrees for the rotation, and within ±3% for the size. I think that works pretty well without being too easy, though some of the smaller countries are a bit harder to get just right (zooming in is possible). And I did indeed mean largeness.

	Nobbe:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 05:20 GMT		14 points
	Wow - a quiz that truely deserves five globes! Took me some time to understand, but highly entertaining in the end. Now I have to try until I can get it without fixing size and / or rotation. And - please - more of them (Europe, The americas, Asia, some countries)!

	tobley:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 06:06 GMT		10 points
	@Nobbe I do plan on doing other ones at some point, though they will take a bit of time. Tracing the borders for this alone took about 3-4 hours (with coding taking another 5-6, though that part would be mostly reusable for any other quizzes).

	ArtFever:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 08:00 GMT		10 points
	Swaziland, Burundi and Rwanda really are tough. This was genius though, instant nomination.

	A_is_for_Addict:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 10:05 GMT		20 points
	This is, without a doubt, the best user made quiz on this website. I remember doing puzzles of the continents on other websites before I discovered sporcle, but they never had the changing dimensions and rotation aspect to the quiz. I could rave on and on so I'll stop! Excellent job, tobley, Thank you!

	gttrsnp:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 10:09 GMT		6 points
	this is african amazing quiz!

	WCRoentgen:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 10:37 GMT		13 points
	I hate to admit this, but: I have no idea how to play this quiz. I'm clearly missing something obvious, but what? Little help, anybody?

	RobPro:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 10:38 GMT		2 points
	Absolutely amazing!

	Tobsodan:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 12:51 GMT		15 points
	Indeed a truly awesome quiz. My only quibble, if you could even call it that (and I don't think you can), would be that I think you should get more credit for not using the fixators, as they make the quiz puzzle so much easier. I think it is easier to finish the puzzle within 10 minutes with the fixators on, then within 30 minutes with the fixators off (whereas in the latter you would score less). This doesn't change how extremely fun it is to play though!

	balatjr:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 13:57 GMT		1 point
	What is going on? Nothing loaded when I played. Are there images?

	ArtFever:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 14:00 GMT		4 points
	balatjr, this requires Flash.

	4tothe4th:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 14:51 GMT		1 point
	Did without resize or rotation help but I had to zoom in to get rwanda, lesotho, etc in place correctly

	otis89:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 16:59 GMT		4 points
	This quiz was amazing. I officially hate Swaziland now though.

	Andiyan:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 19:35 GMT		1 point
	You have to place all the countries to get the codes for no rotation/size fixing or for within a certain amount of time?

	RC_Cola:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 19:48 GMT		2 points
	A fantastic challenge. I'm very glad flash lets you zoom in and out, otherwise I would not have gotten the smaller countries without rotation and sizing.

	BCSwede:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 21:02 GMT		5 points
	Ah man, I didn't realize I could zoom in until I read the comments!!! Do you have any idea how long it took me to get Swaziland in place?!?!? I think I need to go see my eye doctor immediately. Great, great quiz.

	mcomisky:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 21:26 GMT		4 points
	I got them all without rotation and size fixing, but it took me over 30mins!

	manonthemoon:	Nov 21st, 2011 at 23:18 GMT		9 points
	Loved it - Europe, Asia etc to follow I hope? Thanks for the fav!

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	Tom007:	Nov 22nd, 2011 at 05:12 GMT		17 points
	@coulraphobic At least it helps for something...

	megascarp:	Nov 22nd, 2011 at 11:28 GMT		6 points
	I think my brain just melted. I never had an issue with Algeria until now.

	professor88:	Nov 22nd, 2011 at 15:18 GMT		4 points
	Best quiz ever! ...took me ages before I found Sudan since I forget about South Sudan's independence this year...

	loganite:	Nov 22nd, 2011 at 16:08 GMT		4 points
	Fantastic work, Tobley! Five globes. I hope you're going to release similar versions for other continents.

	ArtFever:	Nov 22nd, 2011 at 18:26 GMT		3 points
	The problem with the other continents is the large difference in size. Africa is relatively well balanced, and thus easier to make standards for (see comment #5, by Tobley). I will therefore instead ask for a version with the contiguous 48 US states :)

	Pit_trout:	Nov 22nd, 2011 at 19:58 GMT		1 point
	@ArtFever: if one could zoom in on the map, then the size differences wouldn’t be such an issue, perhaps? South America would definitely work well, either way. Really marvellous quiz!

	D_Mac:	Nov 22nd, 2011 at 23:36 GMT		8 points
	OMG SWAZILAND!! WHY WON'T YOU FIT?#!&?!!?

	caramba:	Nov 23rd, 2011 at 05:38 GMT		6 points
	I found out why Swaziland wasn't fitting for me - it was Sierra Leone! Superb quiz.

	RobPro:	Nov 23rd, 2011 at 12:54 GMT		6 points
	Some loser just voted this 1/5... I think Sporcle should make a new system, so that if someone votes 1/5, they must give a reason and it should be made public... It is ridiculous.

	adidag0:	Nov 23rd, 2011 at 21:49 GMT		7 points
	Please make more of these. I'd chip in $5 for your troubles. The rest of the continents, US states, Canadian provinces, the entire world in one? I also agree with the comment that you should get more credit for not using the auto zoom and resize. I finished it but it took over an hour. I used auto zoom and resize and it took 7 minutes. I think I should have gotten a higher score for the former but actually scored better for the latter.

	thedpr:	Nov 23rd, 2011 at 22:42 GMT		4 points
	Fantastic! Now, if you could create codes that let you keep stats on which countries people got, I would give you 6 stars!

	Disraeli:	Nov 24th, 2011 at 02:59 GMT		5 points
	So it took me 5 minutes to figure out, but when I did... perfection. One of the best quizzes I've played. This totally deserves to be published.

	batmann:	Nov 24th, 2011 at 07:11 GMT		3 points
	I spent like 5 minutes looking for Sudan... also Rwanda and Burundi can go **** themselves

	Chris93:	Nov 24th, 2011 at 11:53 GMT		2 points
	The whole of East Africa is cut off for me making the quiz essentially impossible. Any suggestions?

	JayZed:	Nov 24th, 2011 at 12:55 GMT		1 point
	@Chris93 - yes, me too. I'm at work so I'm using Internet Explorer - maybe it's a browser problem?

	WCRoentgen:	Nov 24th, 2011 at 13:30 GMT		7 points
	This is one of the best quizzes in all of Sporcledom. 5/5. Only complaint: It took me awhile to figure out what I was supposed to do. The quiz is unique because play begins before clicking on "Ready? Click to Start." I think the instructions should make that clear. Before I figured that out, I was going mad trying to solve the map in 1 minute!

	nymatts78654:	Nov 24th, 2011 at 13:52 GMT		2 points
	The greatest quiz ever U need to do every continent now!