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Comment by kelseydh | Hacker News Reader

This is a great idea, though I feel like if you guessed the country accurately the first time I would like it move on to another country. That or a button that lets me skip to new countries. I know where Australia and it's a bit tedious to be forced into spaced repetition for it three times.

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I'm surprisingly bad at the first 5 countries suggested but I managed to guess the general region well enough to hit it correctly on the global map.

At the same time, I feel like a lot more people know where Australia is compared to (say) Laos.

I love the zooming in; Did I just know that country was in Europe or did I really know which map-feature was the country?

interesting perspective, as well.

that's really the core struggle with learning games: not being too boring, not being too repetitive, not introducing stuff too fast, enabling user choice but also making sure learning is achieved...

will take both your point and parent poster's point into account :)

Also: After you guess one, a button to jump to Wikipedia to learn more.

Today I learned Lesotho is the largest sovereign enclave; there are two smaller on the Italian peninsula.

That's a good idea.

I had the same experience. I played for a few minutes, and the only repetitions I got were countries I already identified on the first guess. I didn't get repeats of any country that I missed initially.

Good idea, will implement soon, thanks

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