Fun on Monday: Geosense

Becca does a great Casual Game Friday series of posts about casual video games you can find online. Today's Fun on Monday is encroaching on that area a bit, so I hope she doesn't mind too much. Geosense is a very simple geography game that you can play by yourself or against other people online. It gives you a city and country and you have six seconds to find it on a map. And these aren't just the country's capitals -- the questions could be any major city in any country. And as I soon found out, there are a lot of cities that I have heard of but only have a vague notion as to where they are located. Once you click a location on the map, you see a blue target where you clicked and a yellow target where the city is actually located. It's always embarrassing when those circles don't even overlap.

Geosense is fun in a kinda nerdy way. It's basically a bunch of information that you really ought to know as an informed citizen, but don't. After a round of 10 you can see how fast you respond and how many kilometers away from the actual cities you were on average. I've been getting my average error rate under 250 kilometers lately, which I consider to be pretty good. Some of them I can get pretty close, but I am pretty far off on places like Ammassalik, Greenland. So encourage your inner nerd and give it a try. If you really like it you can play against other people online, or even get a free account and track your improvement.