I volunteer for North America - U.S.A., Antarctica, the Arctic Ocean or the Pacific Ocean. I'm ok with letting other people take any of those, I'm not sure what the demand will be for which regions
just to confirm, this won't be due for a couple of weeks, right?
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The missing European countries have already been assigned or ... did I miss some war?
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Yea ^^ I love how he managed to make Europe without Germany, England, Swiss, Netherlands, Austria and probably more. Well, taking in every country is to big scale. So the decision is understandable.
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Its not set in stone-- We can still change Europe-- that is one Im having difficulty splitting up as all of each country is so cool!
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1 - Scandinavia - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
2 - Western Europe: Austria, Belgium, England, Germany, Ireland, Lichtenstein, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Switzerland, Wales; France
3 - Southern Europe - Portugal, Spain, Italy, Malta, France
4 - Eastern Europe - Belarus, Czech, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Moldova, Lithuania Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine
5 - Balkans - Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
Note:
A - France can be part of either Southern or Western Europe. the country is culturally and geographically ambiguous
B - The Baltic Countries (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) can be moved from Eastern Europe to Scandinavia (then it should be called Northern Europe)
Or you could go by language group:
1 - Germanic languages: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, Germany, Iceland, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland
2 - Romance Languages: Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain
3 - Slavic Languages (north): Belarus, Czech, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine
4 - Slavic Languages (southern): Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia,
5 - Other: Albania, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Ireland, Wales (yep, this is all over the place) Greek and Albanian are extant languages, meaning there are no similar languages; Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian are Uralic languages, Gaelic and Welsh are both Celtic languages, as is Breton which is spoken in part of France
Belgium and Kosovo both have official languages that are in different language groups
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I like the grouping you're offering. I'd suggest that France be stuck with the southern europe group just to make the groups more balanced.
Also i've never been called culturally and geographically ambiguous but i love it ;)
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Thing is, culturally, France (and Ireland) shares traits with the Germanic countries and it shares traits with the southern countries. France is also a bit of a mix.
Itt has the Basque, which are culturally closer to Spain, Provence that has more in common with northern Italy, Alsace/Lorraine which is part-German, and Normandy with its strong English influences. Burgundy was historically aligned with the low countries, though that is more apparent by the cultural divide of Belgium than the other way around. It would be too simple, and woefully inaccurate, to say that the alp region is like the swiss, but there are traits shared across the border. Brittany shows its strong Celtic roots, which it shares with Ireland.
If we look at a more economic perspective, France shows the industriousness of northern europe, and the joie de vivre more common in southern europe. politically, it also shares traits of both, but I don't want to insult, well, everyone, so I won't mention it here
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Oh, I totally knew what you meant, I just liked the terms you used :3
I was just saying it would make more "balanced" groups (in terms of numbers) to stuff us with the southern group totally not partial because i live in the south :p
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I like this grouping although I' m missing Cyprus. Problem with such large groups is however how to get them all covered in more or less in one quiz. So you have to either blow the quiz(zes) out of proportion or trying to find shared traits.
In this context the language assignment may be useful. This could make for an either pretty interesting or evilish difficult puzzle. You could also try to group them by cultural traits. However, Europe is pretty diverse .....
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Its not set in stone-- We can still change Europe-- that is one Im having difficulty splitting up as all of each country is so cool!
Maybe can get rid of 5 Oceans and give more slots to Europe??
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What if I list all European countries separately and wait till we have 8 countries picked by 8 people then close that continent?
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It could be divided into 4 macro-areas: eastern, western, northern and southern... and the fifth slot may be used for the seas
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Have a bump. I'd love to make one but can we have an idea of the deadline ?
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Thanks, I'll sit this one out then (not the solving but the puzzle making) because i'll have a busy month and i'll be away for a whole week too. If you need some help with testing tho, feel free to ping me on steam ;)
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I'm interested to help out with Southern Africa but I am travelling for the next couple of weeks starting next week and won't have much time to organise things. As such I need to know deadlines/time lines to be able to commit.
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OK. If ill think of some cool questions i might take Ukraine. But right now its so hot in here my brain is melting... So i'm to lazy to think...
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If you're okay with my boring puzzles, like the one I made for science event (too lazy to think of anything creative), I'm willing to take Nordic stuff or Estonia ( possibly both if you go by dingbat's B suggestion) but if Estonia gets added to East, I'll not take that because I don't even know where to start. Slavic culture is way more different and foreign to me than Nordic.
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It really is unfair that the baltic states get comingled with the slavic countries. Linguistically it may be similar, and during the cold war they were part of the Soviet bloc, but historically the Baltic States were much more closely alligned with eastern Scandinavia and northern Germany
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Actually, my language is very far from Slavic. It has more connections to Finnish (most similar) and German than any Slavic language.
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I have to apologize. I was certain that Slovene was a slavic language (it is), before remembering you're Estonian, which is a uralic language (together with Finnish and Hungarian. I'll edit my post above
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Have a bump for another great - as I can imagine already - event :) Though I'm not able to make any puzzle during june or july :(
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Thank you for reminder :) Sadly, I'm very busy for next few weeks :( I hope I end my things before end of the event...
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Im into the main designing of it now and the event won't be ready to go on SG until mid August... so no worries... You should be ready by then...
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Hey Jeff :3
I don't have the time to create any puzzles atm sadly
But i could sponsor some lil bundled games, if you need
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Wow jeff, do you ever take a break from puzzling? :P
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Sure I do... I have to got to the bathroom every now and then... Lol!
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That's a nice idea for an event!
I missed your last one due to school, but this time I'm in!
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I really want to help, but my month may be turning upside down and I don't want to commit and then fail to deliver
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I'm interested to help with the puzzles. Taking a trip next weekend, though. Hopefully I can help in a meaningful way :-)
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interesting thing, i wish i could help but i dont understand a thing how this should work :D
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You just keep on coming up with new ideas, don't you? =)
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ooo this sounds like fun, I may be able to contribute but I've been quite busy so we'll see :)
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Well, I can't help in design or giveaways, because I'm not smart and I can do only region-restricted GAs, but I will gladly take part in solving. ^^,
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UPDATE:
Teaser Puzzle has been completed and you can solve it HERE
I only had a handful of people interested in doing a 30 puzzle designer event on Countries, Continents and Oceans.. So I've dropped the idea of doing a large many puzzle designer event and will be making the next one mainly by myself. I would, however, appreciate a few who want to help me with the project I'm working on now.
The theme will be World Landmarks... And instead of quizzes about the landmarks it will be a hunt for them using latitude and longitude... Recognizing the landmark from top down view using google maps, recognizing the landmark by photographic frontal view and then matching them with icons in a game matching landmarks and icons...
It will be a LOT of fun, highly educational and a fantastic seek and find event. I'm doing a lot of fun games to crack hidden ITH links, and to get access to hidden GAs.
IF you are interested in helping me put together this project then let me know here... Also I will need many GA contributors... I have about 400 bundle games to add to the event but would be interested in more bundled and also non-bundled for higher parts of the pyramid climb.
Goal date to go live: MID-August
Goal for finishers of event: 80
Goal for GA amount: 600+
Goal for comments in Thread: 1800
GA level for bundled GAs is Level 2, non-bundled varies from 3+ (so if you're at a low level now... Get busy upping your level!)
Last large puzzle event was a huge success with 70 conquerors!
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