Category — Microblog Mondays

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One more game that I’ve been playing for months and seemingly never wrote about is Neighbourle. You get a country highlighted on a map, with its neighbours in grey, and you have to state the names of all of the countries that border the daily country.

I can usually guess a country based on the number of kilometers and the direction, but this is harder because you have to know the names and shapes of every country that touches it. Even if it’s just a small piece of the border.

Enjoy.

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I can’t believe I haven’t yet written about Metazooa, but it’s one of my favourite evening games. You guess an animal (I always start with a guinea pig), and then it tells you the taxonomic rank to get you closer and closer to the animal of the day.

I was terrible at first, but you start to remember which animals are classified together and start making educated guesses over which two birds would have more in common than other birds, for example.

Enjoy.

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I’ve been using a master packing list for years. It has everything I usually pack for every type of trip. I hit duplicate, delete the things I don’t need for the upcoming trip, and then cross off items as they go into the suitcase.

The app I had been using changed to a subscription model years ago, but as long as I didn’t update the app, I was able to keep using it for free. Unfortunately, when I changed phones, it installed an updated version on the new device. This is when I learned that I could recreate the list in the Notes app, change the whole thing to a checklist (look in the bottom left order for the checklist symbol), and then keep duplicating it by pressing down my finger in the table of contents screen (that shows all of your notes) until the duplicate menu popped up. Free option that works even better than the old option because I can check a box and easily see which items are still unchecked.

I may still forget to pack pants, but it won’t be the app’s fault.

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I have no memory of how I found this site, but it pulls up the most popular page on Wikipedia the day before. It’s interesting to try to figure out why everyone was searching for it. Sometimes it’s easy — it’s the World Cup, and it’s a football player — but other times it feels sort of random. And then strange when you see that 300,000+ people all had the same thought.

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Landmarkr has become a new joy because it’s not only a fun game, but it has given me travel ideas. The idea is that you’re given a picture of a landmark, and you need to name the country or city (it tells you which one). If you guess the correct continent but the wrong country, it will tell you that you’re at least in the correct general space. And then it gives you another landmark and another until you guess correctly.

The landmarks get increasingly obvious as you move through guesses. For instance, if the city were Paris, they may show you an obscure statue for your first guess, but by the time you get to your sixth guess, they’re showing you the Eiffel Tower. Landmarks can be buildings or items or natural formations.

Enjoy!

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