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Questions

Questions you get wrong are asked again at the end of the round.

Plates are blurred as they are in the game, and only plates you can still recognise are asked.

Tells you whether the state uses front plates before you answer.

The wrong choices look like the right answer instead of being random.

Practise

Place names are real towns and regions. Letters asks single letters, the weakest most often.

Answer by

Typing takes any accents and small spelling slips (Nizhny for Nizhniy). Multiple choice gives four readings to pick from.

Letters to work on

Your weakest letters in this script, with how many times you've read them right. Saved in this browser.

Places

The country's largest towns and cities, by population.

Zooms the map in on one region and greys out the rest of the country. Asks the region's places among the ones above (or its own largest, if few of them are there).

Counts as right within

How close your click has to be to the place. Points go up the closer you get either way.

Map look

Show the names of places, roads and rivers on the map. Easier, but some names give the answer away.

Shows how long each round takes.

After you answer

Time after correct answer
Time after wrong answer

How long the answer stays on screen before the next question. "Manual" waits until you press Next or Enter.

Names on the map

Map

Map style

Colours draws the areas in flat colours. Real map shows them over an OpenStreetMap map, with its place names hidden.

Label size
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Gives each part of the country its own colour.

Photos and tips adapted from Plonk It (US plates chart by Keaton), licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Street View imagery © Google.

Language tips for Sri Lanka, Israel and the West Bank, the UAE, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Russia adapted from Plonk It, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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