I Suck at Geography, and Can’t Fly Either
by KTKJuly 9th, 2008
Lufthansa has an amusing (though logo-filled) Flash game on their Web site: You get a map of North America and Europe, and a graphic of a Lufthansa aircraft flying from JFK to somewhere across the Atlantic. The name of the destination city flashes on the screen and you have a few seconds to click on the appropriate location for the plane to land before it crashes. Then it tells you how far off from the correct location you were. The first round shows an unlabeled map with country borders and dots representing numerous cities - one of which will be your destination for each “flight”. The second round shows country borders but no cities. The final round just has you staring in panic at a blank landmass in all its shocking emptiness.
The game’s a bit finicky - it will dock you points for being as little as 3 miles off-target, which is a pretty small target to hit on a map of all of Europe and Russia that’s about 6 inches wide. It also seems to have a relatively small number of target cities - play it a few times and you quickly start to see the same ones over and over. On the other hand, you quickly learn some geography that way, too.
As I already knew, I am teh suck at geography. But this is embarrasing.
(My best out of three tries. Oy.)
that’s not “finicky”. that’s less than a single pixel, which is more into “fictional” than “finicky”.
I barely beat you, albeit on my first try.
Second try was significantly better, but that involved a fair bit of luck. (”That sounds vaguely Eastern European, I’ll try here!” — 40 miles away.)
I guess I don’t feel so bad - I got 25806 on my first try. (It’s not posted ’cause I didn’t feel like giving the airline my email addy.)
Nobody said you had to give them a real one.