http://www.sporcle.com/games/tjconn728/cities_interstate (http://www.sporcle.com/games/tjconn728/cities_interstate)
here's a nice little game - guess the cities by what Interstates pass through them or into them. see how fast it takes you. :happy:
I was done with 6:37 to spare.
I could get more time remaining than 7:02 if I could spell decently without spellcheck :)
While fun, the game takes too many liberties or is completely wrong with some cities.
I had 7:09 to spare. The real limit on performance is how well you can type quickly, not knowing the cities. I'm sure every roadgeek worth his/her salt has no trouble identifying the towns. And Revive 755 is right: it does take some liberties with the "passing through" part, like I-80 in Chicago.
I did it with about 6 minutes to spare, the hardest part for me was trying to spell Albuquerque.
I did it with 7 minutes to spare. Like jdb, my hardest one to spell was Albuquerque.
7:26 (but i can type faster than most)
25/25 with 8:11 to spare. :sombrero:
25/25 with 8:17 remaining
25/25, 8:26
8.58
would've beaten 9 had I realized that, apparently, I-59 goes to New Orleans these days.
(and I-95, to Boston. Hah!)
8:16 to spare :) Great game.
I had 6:45 to spare. I struggled a bit to figure out where I-91 and I-95 intersected.
Some more...
California Counties (http://www.sporcle.com/games/counties_california.php)
Oklahoma Counties (http://www.sporcle.com/games/scott5114/okla_counties)
Texas Counties (http://www.sporcle.com/games/texascounties.php)
Most repeated county names (http://www.sporcle.com/games/counties.php)
I got it with 7:10 to spare. Had to copy Albuquerque from here because it seemed too hard :-D
Here are some others that were recently posted to the roadgeek group:
> Naming cities by the interstates that go through them:
> http://www.sporcle.com/games/tjconn728/cities_interstate (http://www.sporcle.com/games/tjconn728/cities_interstate)
> (harder for me than it should have been!)
>
> Trivia about interstates:
> http://www.sporcle.com/games/mathias1979/interstate_trivia (http://www.sporcle.com/games/mathias1979/interstate_trivia)
>
> Intrastate interstates:
> http://www.sporcle.com/games/Jman14/intrastate_interstate_highways (http://www.sporcle.com/games/Jman14/intrastate_interstate_highways)
> (can brute-force this one but it's more fun not to)
>
> Largest cities not served by an interstate:
> http://www.sporcle.com/games/Brad/NoInterstate (http://www.sporcle.com/games/Brad/NoInterstate)
Since when did I-29 go into Omaha?
I think you need to consider the urban area, not precisely the city proper.
Anyway, what's so hard about Albuquerque? I always think like: "Albu - quer-que". Quite easy.
Quote from: Chris on October 10, 2009, 02:50:38 PM
Anyway, what's so hard about Albuquerque? I always think like: "Albu - quer-que". Quite easy.
I always start out "Albe"... the ambiguous schwa is the toughest spelling to intuitively guess at in the English language. It cost me a shot at going to the national spelling bee in eighth grade!
Quote from: Greybear on October 10, 2009, 12:59:02 PMSince when did I-29 go into Omaha?
I-70 hasn't entered Pittsburgh since the early 60s, and I-76 and I-79 haven't since the early 70s.
25/25 with 6:54 left
There was also another Sporcle game about recognizing American cities by their suburbs :cool:
http://www.sporcle.com/games/suburbs.php (http://www.sporcle.com/games/suburbs.php)
I got them all in 1:14 minutes. :colorful:
3.47 left. took a total guess on Cleveland.
Quote from: Chris on October 10, 2009, 05:28:30 PM
There was also another Sporcle game about recognizing American cities by their suburbs :cool:
http://www.sporcle.com/games/suburbs.php (http://www.sporcle.com/games/suburbs.php)
I got them all in 1:14 minutes. :colorful:
I gave up on San Fransico at 1:25 :angry:, I must have mispelled San Fransico cuz I tried it 3 times also tried Oakland, SanJose and Sacremento :banghead:, but I got the other 25 pretty queek :sombrero:
7:49 left. Would've done better, but got flubbed on New Haven (91-95). Couldn't think of which city in CT they met at, so I kept typing out names until I hit it.
Obviously, it's not exactly the municipality, but the general city reference people think of when going to/through a city.
Nice game. Did one for another topic before.
Sykotyk
Only 3 minutes left for me. I had forgotten about the existence of New Haven, CT.
6:26 left
Albuquerque tripped me up, too.
Thanks for the link to Sporkle Master son, I'm having alot of fun there. :biggrin:
Here's my stats (not real great but I'm enjoying the challenge). :D
Quotehttp://www.sporcle.com/user/allniter89/stats