Another little time waster game. How to get between a named pair of countries, with the fewest border crossings.

https://travle.earth

Ta, I’ll have a peep at it tomorrow.

party_pants said:

Another little time waster game. How to get between a named pair of countries, with the fewest border crossings.

https://travle.earth

Got it.
I expect I’ll be good at this. What time does it update?

dv said:

party_pants said:

Another little time waster game. How to get between a named pair of countries, with the fewest border crossings.

https://travle.earth

Got it.
I expect I’ll be good at this. What time does it update?

I don’t know. my sister recommended it to me only just a few hours ago. I got her on to Wordle a while back, and now she is repaying the favour. This was my first day at it too.

I think once I master a route through central America and the Middle East I pretty much be done with it.

Probably will take me a couple of weeks but by then there will be not much of a challenge.

party_pants said:

I think once I master a route through central America and the Middle East I pretty much be done with it.

Probably will take me a couple of weeks but by then there will be not much of a challenge.

Maybe add west Africa and the the ‘stan countries to the list.

Using Google earth is cheating.

I’m… not finding this difficult yet.

Like you, if there is a route that has to go through coastal West Africa, then I might get the order mixed up but will still get there in minimum turns. I’m a bit of a geog nerd.

dv said:

I’m… not finding this difficult yet.

Like you, if there is a route that has to go through coastal West Africa, then I might get the order mixed up but will still get there in minimum turns. I’m a bit of a geog nerd.

I too have spent an inordinate amount of time on Seterra’s World Map.

But I still can’t sort Venezuela from Colombia, or Hunduras, Guatemala and that other one… what’s…it.called..

Also I didn’t read the rules properly so Bolivia got me an orange square, but interestingly following up withPeru got me a green tick, so this thing is adaptive.

Some unexpected (but, on closer inspection, quite correct) aspects:

Canada has a land border with Greenland, because they divided Hans Island up between them.

Zimbabwe does not have a border with Namibia. I thought four nations met at a point but that is not the case. There are instead 2 tripoints separated by about 100 metres.

For Western Sahara, they have used the area under defacto control of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, which is reasonable.

They also recognise Somaliland, which is nice. This means for instance that Somalia has no border with Djibouti.

I had a little bit of trouble with the ‘stans on today’s challenge.

dv said:

Some unexpected (but, on closer inspection, quite correct) aspects:

Canada has a land border with Greenland, because they divided Hans Island up between them.

Zimbabwe does not have a border with Namibia. I thought four nations met at a point but that is not the case. There are instead 2 tripoints separated by about 100 metres.

For Western Sahara, they have used the area under defacto control of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, which is reasonable.

They also recognise Somaliland, which is nice. This means for instance that Somalia has no border with Djibouti.

Inasmuch, it appears that Botswana and Zambia have the shortest border in the world