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Geography & Travel
Maps, routes, places and the practical puzzles of getting somewhere.
Maps, routes, places and the practical puzzles of getting somewhere.
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Geography & Travel
Borderless Watersheds
Follow rivers across an invented map from tributary to bay to ocean, then test divides, nested basins, inland lakes and alternate place names.
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City-Region-Country Relay
Pass real cities to their provinces, estados or states, sort those regions into Canada, Mexico or the United States, then complete city-region-country chains across all three countries.
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Detour Diary: Prairie to Pacific
Work through a fictional prairie-to-coast drive with route, ferry, fuel and landform puzzles solved from the data given. Your answer to the first question decides which final question appears.
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Fair Midpoint Meetup
Work through invented travel-time tables together to find the venue with the shortest longest journey, then discuss which compromise your group would choose.
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Flat Map, Round World
Read four schematic map diagrams to spot which property a projection distorts, then compare four globe routes using supplied angles and distances.
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Hear the Landscape
Decode short original tone sequences as terrain profiles using a fixed pitch-to-elevation legend, then match, order and classify invented routes by what you hear.
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Itinerary Sanity Check
Repair invented day plans by checking travel-time tables for clock clashes, then ordering stops to cut backtracking.
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Landscape Knowledge, Landscape Taste
Answer four landform and drainage questions for an accuracy score, then make four taste choices that place your own preferences on two scales: Intimate scenes to Panoramic vistas, and Linger and observe to Roam and explore.
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Layered Place Names: An Invented Gazetteer
Read invented gazetteer entries and archive snippets to sort place names into language layers, then check a few real city and region links.
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Long June Days or Short December Ones?
Compare June and December daylight for Canadian and Mexican cities using supplied rounded latitudes and a stated daylight rule, then apply that rule in ordering, matching and grid tasks.
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Mexico Beyond the Beach
Match inland Mexican cities to their states, check how Mexico is divided, then read invented elevation and drainage maps to sort highlands from lowlands.
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Named Winds and Lake Snow: An Invented Map
Match four invented named winds to their regions, work out what causes each, then read weather-station records and a causal chain to identify the event behind them.
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One River, Three Clues
Solve four invented river puzzles by narrowing four candidates with three clues each, choose the clue that settles two bonus puzzles, then check basic watershed ideas.
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Passenger Seat Rules
Choose between road-trip rules and rank your own stopping and passenger duties to see where you land on two descriptive travel scales.
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Postcard Perspective Puzzle
Read tiny invented maps, track which way each window faces, and decide which postcard views are possible and which are contradictions.
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Rain Shadow Road Trip
Plan a drive across an invented mountain range: pick the drier stops, order route legs by expected rainfall using supplied rules, and match landforms to their weather effects.
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Read the Climate Chart
Read invented monthly temperature and rainfall tables, then name each climate pattern and match it to a kind of place. Every chart comes with its full data in text.
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Same Distance, Different Numbers
Convert distances between kilometres, miles, metres and feet using supplied factors, then check map scales and elevation labels in eight short tasks.
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Seen From Orbit: Why It Looks That Way
Read eight satellite-style scenes, given as original diagrams and text descriptions, work out what caused each pattern, then match patterns to land use and drainage. Score out of 8 with every pattern explained.
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Seven-Hour Layover Lab
Eight quick layover choices, from scenarios to rankings and pairs, place you on two descriptive preference scales: rest versus activity, and familiar surroundings versus sensory variety.
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The Altitude Ladder
Climb a three-rung ladder of invented survey stations: sort elevations into bands, link mean temperatures to profiles, then complete full point-to-band-to-profile chains.
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The Missing Transit Stop
Solve six clue grids about invented transit lines, finding dropped stops and rebuilding stop orders, then finish with a clue-ordering task and a distance puzzle.
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The Time-Zone Rendezvous
Solve eight clock puzzles using fixed October 18, 2026 UTC offsets: convert meeting times, check availability windows, and sort cities by local clock time.
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Twin Cities Across the Line
Pair invented border towns from clues and schematic diagrams, then match real Canadian and Mexican cities to their provinces and states.
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Wayfinding Style: Landmarks or Lines
Eight quick scenarios and habit pairs place your own preferences on two scales: Landmarks to Street Geometry, and Asking Directions to Self-Checking.