strange shaped countries

[darkoshi]

Opening the Worldle page,
staring at the strange shape and wondering what (in heck) country it could be,
thinking a few minutes,
then typing in a guess...
and getting it right on the first try is such a rush of glee.

Sometimes getting it right on the 2nd or 3rd (etc) try is also a rush of glee.

Other times, it's a country I thought I was familiar with, but would've sworn its outline didn't look like that.

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Today someone on my current team at work said I looked familiar (from my profile photo I guess, as we haven't done any video meetings... unless he worked in the same office before it got closed down... which is also possible) and asked if I went to the university (which I did go to) and if I was in the Engineering building (which I was). He graduated a couple years after me and thinks he remembers seeing me in the halls.

How is that even possible!? Remembering someone's face from 27ish years ago, someone you only saw in passing however many times? Especially if the recognition is on the basis of comparing those memories to a single profile photo of me taken 20 years later!?? If so, he must be one of those super-face-recognizers.

I can barely remember someone's face right after I see it.

Comments

[frith]

My facial recognition skills are also poor. On Saturday I saw an ex-coworker I know very well and the vet with a third person hailing me from the Petting Zoo section. At first I didn't recognize the coworker at all and it was several minutes before I realized that the vet was one of the two current ones and not a vet from years ago. Later on I remembered her name too. 8^D

As for Worldle, I don't think I've _ever_ guessed which country it was. Last week the answer was an island out in the middle of nowhere off Antarctica!

[darkoshi]

Yes, Bouvet Island was obscure. With my first 4 guesses I determined it had to be an island south of South Africa and not Antarctica. Not knowing the names of any such islands, I typed an 'A' into the search box and scrolled through all the entries, trying to guess which of the listed places that are unknown to me it was most likely to be. So I got it right on my 5th try, though I consider that partial cheating. I've had to do that several times, usually with islands.