This challenge holds all 23 countries in North America, and you have to type every one of them from memory, with no clues and nothing to pick from.
Every state of North America, Central America and the Caribbean. The challenge is complete at 23 out of 23.
GeoMemory counts 196 countries: the 193 UN member states plus Vatican City, Palestine and Taiwan. Dependencies and overseas territories are excluded, so Greenland, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong and New Caledonia are never answers. Microstates are included in full, which means San Marino, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Andorra, Nauru, Tuvalu and Palau each count for one. Every country sits in exactly one continent, and that is what gives the totals of 54 for Africa, 48 for Asia, 45 for Europe, 23 for North America, 12 for South America and 14 for Oceania. The capitals challenges run on the same list, one capital per country. Central America and the Caribbean belong to North America here. Territories are excluded, so Greenland, Puerto Rico and Bermuda are not answers.
The mainland goes fast and then the Caribbean decides it. Half of this set is islands. Recall is the whole game: nothing on screen reminds you of a name you have not typed yet.
GeoMemory is free recall, not recognition. There is no list of options, no map to click and no first letter given away: you type a name and it either belongs to the set or it does not. Spelling is forgiving (one wrong character is accepted, accents and punctuation are ignored), a timer runs while you play, and the run ends with a completion percentage you can share. A multiple choice quiz asks whether you recognise the right answer among four. A map click quiz asks whether you can point at it. This one asks whether you can produce it.
23. You need all 23 for a complete run, and your percentage is counted against that number.
Yes, up to a point. One missing, extra, swapped or transposed character is accepted, and accents, punctuation, capitals and spaces are ignored. Two mistakes in the same word are not accepted.
It is free and there is no account, no sign up and no install. Your best time for each challenge is kept in your own browser.
These are the answers that decide a run. Most answers are lost in the Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Dominica and the Dominican Republic are two different countries, and both are in the set. Greenland and Puerto Rico are territories, so neither is an answer.