Title says UK
Game only has England
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Fair, my despicable anglocentrism is showing :) I guess the question applies equally to scotland, wales, and NI though. I'd imagine that counties are more well-known in those places, but maybe not.
In Northern Ireland they are. But we only have six. We have an acronym for it: FAT LAD
Fermanagh
Armagh
Tyrone
Londonderry
Antrim
Down
I got 59%, which I think is good for a first attempt! To be fair, going from Historic counties to Ceremonial counties in the 1990s did make it more difficult for people.
Let's see how many times I can do this until I consistently get over 80%:
- 37%
- 48%
- 76%
- 79%
- 94%
- 98%
Some fun tips to remember:
- Berkshire is where the Berks live, lying horizontal like the berks they are.
- Warwickshire is doing pincer-like war tactics.
- Bristol is Gloucestershire's penis.
- Wiltshire has a bird on it, and the queen is a bird so the one that looks like the queen victoria's head
- Lanca is left, and Linca is right in my made up head language
- Rutland looks like a runty little thing
I reckon I could give a general area for 90% of them, but Iβd probably get less than 30% accurately. And thatβs England - Iβm terrible with Wales / Scotland and havenβt really the foggiest with NI. I donβt think many people would be able to get above your score really and almost nobody would be able to recite them all from memory. Incidentally travle has a British mode that is great for this!
In Northern Ireland, we have a saying: FAT LAD.
Fermanagh
Armagh
Tyrone
Londonderry
Antrim
Down
This put a smile on my face. Thanks for that!
oh yeah I haven't any hope with wales/scotland/NI. Even just trying the english ones made me feel quite stupid lol. And like I say, I think you'd score higher than you think just by cheesing it a bit with some guesswork and some process of elimination. But I'd say my county knowledge is absolutely terrible - I only really know a few confidently from places I've lived or visited relatives in, or places which are the capital city :)
I got them all, but to be fair I've been playing Travle for a while now specifically to improve my county knowledge (and I still mess up on Scotland)
I think most people know the ones they're near, perhaps by latitude. I'd probably be fine with everything North of the Midlands, but I'd struggle with all the little bits down south, unless I'd invaded them in Crusader Kings II or something.
I got them all, but to be fair I've been playing Travle for a while now specifically to improve my county knowledge (and I still mess up on Scotland)
No ... but I recently learned that Sussex is further divided into "rapes".
Thanks for the link - would have been interesting to see, but the site uses html-load.com to detect adblocking DNS, so itβs unusable :(
oh, oof. I have ubo and a pihole and it worked ok for me.
This one is pretty similar though - I searched around and there are like a thousand of these. Although some of the ones I found just seem to want you to list the county names rather than match them with the map location, which is much less interesting.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/EmmaLH/locate-the-counties-of-england