I'm sure we recycled more place names from Britain and Ireland than from anywhere else, but Birmingham, AL is probably the most successful example, so naturally I think of it rather than the English city when I hear the name.
I don't know, how about New York?
Or Washington, or Boston. But I'll admit that as far as unchanged names which are major cities in both countries go, Birmingham might top the list. Washington and Boston aren't exactly major cities in the UK. I'm not sure it won't backfire as a marketing tool; I only played it three times (finally getting close to 25k) because once it starts recycling locations the game gets to be more like Concentration than Risk.
I dunno, it looks like a fairly impressive list of destinations to me, including a few I doubt most Americans have heard of. But of course there are more challenging geography games out there, at least one of which has been posted about here (or on wotmania) before.
EDIT: Confirmed; first time out after this morning my score's already up to 26.5k, and even in the third round I was able to get within 30 miles of a couple cities. Obviously there are some gimmes (Istanbul) but if an American can place a Belgian city within 30 miles despite the absence of even national borders, there aren't enough destinations to make for a viable game. Trust the Germans to know how to find Belgium....
In fairness, if you can be 30 miles off for Brussels, that circle would cover most of Belgium.
(Yes, that was an exaggeration. But not by much.)For me as a European geography buff, the challenge is mostly in pinpointing the exact location of cities, particularly those in Central and Eastern Europe after the country borders disappear - that's fairly tricky. But with the red dots I'm fairly sure I could do all of them without mistakes, yes, which I can't say for more serious geography games.
Neat game from Lufthansa
- 07/09/2010 09:09:16 AM
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The game's broken; Birmingham's not on the map (it doesn't go farther west than FL. )
- 07/09/2010 01:18:09 PM
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- 07/09/2010 01:18:09 PM
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Probably just an advertizing thing - to show people all the cities they fly to from the US. *NM*
- 07/09/2010 06:02:07 PM
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I was just teasing the Brits a bit.
- 08/09/2010 05:30:22 AM
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- 08/09/2010 05:30:22 AM
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I got that, yes.
- 08/09/2010 10:21:56 AM
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28626, but I got a few lucky breaks (like Malta in the third round). *NM*
- 07/09/2010 06:00:25 PM
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21818 *NM*
23.160
- 07/09/2010 06:42:42 PM
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There's only three of them! The German ones are harder. *NM*
- 07/09/2010 06:47:40 PM
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- 07/09/2010 06:47:40 PM
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Pretty sure it's random. I didn't get a single Portuguese city. *NM*
- 07/09/2010 10:04:45 PM
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Sure, but the red dots in the first phase indicate all the cities they're ever gonna ask. *NM*
- 07/09/2010 10:22:36 PM
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Weird. I could have sworn I got two 
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- 08/09/2010 05:30:10 PM
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- 08/09/2010 05:30:10 PM
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You got asked two? Or you only saw two red dots on the map?
- 08/09/2010 05:31:52 PM
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18101. ...yeah. A few of those were stupid mixups, though, like reading Venice instead of Vienna. *NM*
- 07/09/2010 10:04:02 PM
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