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.
We think it is cute you can't come up with many of your own place names. Bless
I can remember someone posting to say were in Jersey caused confusion here, as several Americans asked how long they were in the US for
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'm guessing the fact that it has been posted here and you have played it three times means it is doing rather well as a marketing tool. It would only have failed if no one heard of it. Like the Quantas version
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Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
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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Heh,
- 08/09/2010 10:58:12 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*
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- 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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