Countries With 18 Letters
Every one of the 3 countries whose name is exactly 18 letters long, spaces and hyphens not counted. 1 minute on the clock.
Just start typing — a country is added the moment it's recognised, no need to press Enter. Common short names and spelling variants are accepted, and each one lights up on the map as you name it.
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About Countries With 18 Letters
Every other game here shows you four options and asks you to recognise the right one. This is the opposite: a blank box and a clock, and nothing comes up unless you can actually produce it from memory. That is a much harder and much more honest test of what you know.
Common short names and spelling variants are accepted — type USA, America or United States and all three count, and the same goes for Ivory Coast, Czechia, Myanmar and a handful of other countries with more than one widely used name. There is no partial credit for a near-miss spelling of a name the list does not recognise, so precision still matters.
Most people stall somewhere between twenty and forty countries, usually after clearing the obvious ones — the large countries, the countries in the news, the ones they have visited. The next fifty come from Africa, the Pacific and Central Asia, and that is exactly the geography the rest of the site's games are built to fill in.
Scoring
Your score is how many of the 3 countries you name correctly before the 1 minute runs out. There is no penalty for an unrecognised entry beyond the time it costs you to type it, and duplicates are ignored rather than counted twice. Stopping early locks in whatever you have found so far.