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Memorize Earth is a Jeopardy-style geography trainer played on a 30-tile board. You pick a tile (or press Space/Enter to take the next question in order), answer the clue, and clear tiles to build a score. The board tracks your cleared count as 0/30, and the game is explicitly designed to be very hard at the start — progress is saved in your browser over time rather than expected in one session.

Starting a Board

The board is the home screen. Each tile holds a question in a category such as countries, capitals, U.S. states, Canadian provinces, flags, oceans, or mountain ranges. A few things to know before your first pick:

• Tile selection: Click any tile, or press Space / Enter to take the next one in order.
• Score display: The header shows your score (starting at $0) and cleared count (starting at 0/30).
• New Board: Generates a fresh set of tiles. Category filter changes only apply on your next New Board, not the current one.
• Settings: Open via the ⚙ button. Changes save as you make them.

Answering a Question

When you take a tile, the question view opens with the clue and a set of controls:

The question view also shows a question counter (e.g., Question 1/60), your score, a timer, round number, current streak, and best streak. Answering correctly adds to your score and clears the tile; the board's Cleared counter updates as you go.

Modes and Board Variants

The mode selector changes how the board behaves:

• Standard Board — the default mixed-category board.
• New Stuff Only — surfaces questions you haven't seen yet.
• Type Only — answer by typing rather than selecting.
• Globe Mode — location-based questions.
• Presidents Mode — U.S. presidents.
• Drill Weak Spots — focuses on categories where your mastery is low.
• Flag Drill — flags only. The game's own warning screen suggests starting here if the standard board feels brutal.
• God Mode — the hardest variant.

Mastery, History, and Progress

The game tracks per-question history so old questions resurface over time. Two reset actions exist in Settings, and they do different things:

• Reset Question History — clears which questions you've seen so the board can re-surface old ones. Your memory and category stats stay.
• Forget Everything — wipes all progress: mastery, settings, everything.

Category filters show numbers in the form mastered · learning · unseen / total, so you can see where you stand before generating a new board. There's also a Cloud Sync option and a Disconnect Cloud Sync action in Settings.

Practical Tips for a First Session

• Expect a low score early. The game states outright that a perfect score won't happen "for a WHILE" and that progress accumulates across sessions in the same browser.
• If the standard board is discouraging, switch to Flag Drill first — it's the game's own recommended entry point.
• Use Reveal Answer freely while learning; the spaced-repetition history is what drives long-term retention, not any single run.
• Check the category mastery numbers before hitting New Board so you're not re-drilling categories you've already mastered.

Common Sticking Points

• Category changes not applying: They take effect on the next New Board, not the current one.
• Progress seems lost: Confirm you're in the same browser — progress is stored locally unless Cloud Sync is connected.
• Accidentally wiping stats: "Forget Everything" is irreversible and clears mastery and settings, not just history. Use "Reset Question History" if you only want old questions to reappear.

Memorize Earth tracks your learning in two layers: a per-question history that feeds spaced repetition, and a per-category mastery count that shows how many questions in each category you've mastered, are still learning, or haven't seen. Progress is stored in the browser, and the settings panel gives you two separate reset controls — one that re-surfaces old questions while keeping your stats, and one that erases everything.

What the mastery numbers mean

Open Settings and look at the Categories section. Each category shows a count in the form mastered · learning · unseen / total. The three states are:

• Mastered — questions the game considers solid for you.
• Learning — questions you've attempted but haven't locked in yet.
• Unseen — questions you haven't encountered.

The board itself reflects this: the site describes its spaced-repetition tracking as something that improves your results "slowly, over time, if you continue to use this browser." In other words, mastery isn't a one-time quiz score — it's a running record of which questions you've proven you know and which need to come back.

How progress is saved

Progress is tied to the browser you play in, not to an account. Two details from the settings panel confirm this:

• Settings save automatically as you change them.
• A Disconnect Cloud Sync action exists alongside the local reset options, so any synced copy is separate from the browser-stored history.

The practical consequence: if you clear your browser data or switch devices without syncing, your mastery and history go with it. Play in the same browser to keep the spaced-repetition record building.

The two reset controls — and which to use

These are easy to confuse, so here's the difference in one table:

Use Reset Question History when you want a fresh mix of questions on the board but don't want to lose your mastery record. Use Forget Everything only when you genuinely want a clean slate; the confirmation warns it will be "like starting over from scratch."

Note that category filter changes are different again: they apply on your next New Board, not immediately.

Modes that shape what gets tracked

The mode selector changes which questions you'll face, which in turn shapes your mastery data:

• Standard Board — the full Jeopardy-style board.
• New Stuff Only — surfaces unseen material.
• Drill Weak Spots — targets questions you're still learning.
• Flag Drill — a focused flag-only session; the game's own warning screen suggests starting here.
• God Mode and others — harder or themed variants.

If your goal is to move questions from "learning" to "mastered," Drill Weak Spots is the most direct route, since it concentrates on exactly those items.

A realistic example

Suppose you've played a few boards and your Countries category reads 12 · 9 · 4 / 25. That means 12 country questions are mastered, 9 are in progress, and 4 are unseen. To close the gap, run a Drill Weak Spots session to work the 9 learning questions, then a New Stuff Only board to surface the 4 unseen ones. Check the Categories count afterward — mastered should climb. If you want the board to mix in questions you haven't seen in a while without losing that record, use Reset Question History rather than Forget Everything.

Common snags

• Progress "disappeared" — most likely a different browser, a cleared cache, or a device without cloud sync connected.
• Board looks the same after changing categories — category filters apply on the next New Board, not the current one.
• Mastery feels stuck — the game is deliberately hard and expects gradual improvement; use the drill modes rather than expecting a perfect board early.
• Unsure which reset to press — if you only want old questions to reappear, choose Reset Question History; Forget Everything is irreversible.

Memorize Earth offers eight board modes — Standard Board, New Stuff Only, Type Only, Globe Mode, Presidents Mode, Drill Weak Spots, Flag Drill, and God Mode — plus a settings panel for sound, distraction, auto-advance, alternate names, and family-friendly text. You choose a mode from the mode selector before starting a new board; settings save as you change them, but category filter changes only take effect on your next New Board.

The eight game modes

A few practical notes from the site itself: the game warns that it is "designed to be EXTREMELY difficult" and that a perfect score won't come for a while. It also suggests flag drills as a friendlier starting point. If you're new, start with Flag Drill or New Stuff Only, then move to Standard Board once you have some coverage.

Settings that change how a session feels

Open Settings from the board. Changes save as you make them.

• Sound effects — turn audio on or off.
• Allow #@$%&! words — when off, you get family-friendly text plus "a single tame wrong-answer sound."
• Distraction Mode — adds interference while you answer.
• Slap Me When I'm Wrong — a stronger wrong-answer signal.
• Auto-Advance — moves you to the next question automatically.
• Alternate Names — accepts alternative answers for place names.

For a focused solo session, keep sound on and distraction off. For a shared or family setting, turn off cursing and consider leaving Auto-Advance on to keep pace.

Category filters and when they apply

The Categories filter limits the board to specific categories. Each category shows three numbers — mastered · learning · unseen / total — so you can see where you stand before choosing. Use Select All or Clear All to reset the selection quickly.

Important: category changes apply on your next New Board, not the current one. If you filter to, say, flags and capitals, finish or abandon the current board and start a new one to see the effect.

Progress controls you should know about

Two reset actions sit in Settings, and they do different things:

• Reset Question History clears which questions you've seen so old ones can resurface. Your memory and category stats stay.
• Forget Everything wipes all progress — mastery, settings, everything — and cannot be undone.

There's also a Disconnect Cloud Sync option if you want to stop syncing progress. Use Reset Question History when you want variety back; reserve Forget Everything for a genuine fresh start.

A sensible first session

1. Open Settings and turn off cursing if others will be watching.
2. Pick Flag Drill for a low-pressure warm-up.
3. Start a New Board and work through it; wrong answers feed the weak-spot tracking.
4. Switch to Drill Weak Spots on your next session to clean up misses.
5. Once flags feel solid, move to Standard Board and let the category numbers guide which topics to filter next.

The board tracks mastery over time in the same browser, so consistency matters more than any single run.

Memorize Earth is a browser-based geography trainer built around a Jeopardy-style game board. You pick a dollar-value tile, get a clue, and answer to clear the board. It covers countries, capitals, U.S. states, Canadian provinces, flags, oceans, mountain ranges, and more. It's best suited to learners who already know some geography and want spaced, self-tracked practice rather than a structured course—the site itself warns the game is "designed to be EXTREMELY difficult" and that a perfect score won't come quickly.

How the game works

The core loop is simple: a board of 30 tiles (shown as "Cleared 0/30"), each tied to a category and a point value. You click a tile—or press Space/Enter to take the next one in order—read the clue, and answer. A training session runs as a set of questions (the interface shows "Question 1/60") with a score, timer, round, streak, and best-streak display.

Key mechanics visible in the interface:

• Reveal Answer / Next Question: you can reveal the answer when stuck, then move on.
• Skip: pass on a question without answering.
• Answer field: type your response; the game checks it against the correct answer.
• Score and mastery: points accumulate per correct answer, and the site tracks mastery per category over time.

What you can learn

The category filter lets you narrow the board to specific categories. Next to each category, numbers show mastered · learning · unseen / total, so you can see exactly where you stand before starting a board.

Modes and how to choose one

The mode selector includes several options beyond the Standard Board:

• Standard Board — the default mixed-category board. Good general practice.
• New Stuff Only — surfaces questions you haven't seen. Useful when you want breadth before depth.
• Type Only — practice that emphasizes typed answers rather than recognition.
• Globe Mode — map-oriented play.
• Presidents Mode — focused on U.S. presidents.
• Drill Weak Spots — targets categories where your mastery is low. The most efficient choice once you have some history built up.
• Flag Drill — flags only. The site's own warning screen suggests starting here ("try flag drills first"), which makes it a reasonable entry point for new users.
• God Mode — the hardest setting, listed separately in the mode dropdown.

If you're new, start with Flag Drill or Standard Board. Once you've played enough for mastery stats to accumulate, switch to Drill Weak Spots to spend time where it counts.

Progress tracking and spaced repetition

Memorize Earth tracks which questions you've seen and how well you've mastered each category, and it uses that history for spaced repetition—questions you've struggled with resurface. Progress is stored in the browser; the settings include a Cloud Sync option, though the page doesn't specify account requirements or limits, so treat sync as something to verify yourself before relying on it across devices.

Two reset actions matter:

• Reset Question History clears which questions you've seen so old ones can resurface. Mastery and category stats stay intact.
• Forget Everything wipes all progress—mastery, settings, everything—and cannot be undone.

There's also a Save Progress control and a session save option, so you can pause mid-session and return.

Settings worth knowing

The Settings panel saves changes as you make them, but category changes only apply on your next New Board. Options include:

• Sound effects and Distraction Mode toggles.
• Allow #@$%&! words — turn this off for family-friendly text and a single tame wrong-answer sound.
• Slap Me When I'm Wrong and Auto-Advance toggles.
• Alternate Names — accepts alternative country/place names as correct.

A practical way to use it

A workable routine, based on how the game is structured:

1. Open Settings and turn off cursing if you're playing with family; enable Alternate Names so valid variants aren't marked wrong.
2. Filter categories to the set you're studying (e.g., capitals and flags) and start a New Board.
3. Play a session, revealing answers when stuck rather than guessing blindly—the reveal is part of the learning loop.
4. After a few sessions, check the mastery numbers per category and switch to Drill Weak Spots.
5. Use Reset Question History only when you want to re-see old questions; avoid Forget Everything unless you truly want a clean slate.

What to expect

The site is explicit that it's hard and that improvement comes from continued use over time, with the browser tracking your progress. It's a drill tool, not a tutorial—there are no lessons or explanations of why an answer is correct, so pair it with an atlas or reference source if you're learning material for the first time. The mnemonic prompt that appears after repeated misses ("build a dumb mnemonic right now") reflects the intended use: repetition plus memory hooks, not guided instruction.

Memorize Earth is genuinely hard for beginners, and the site says so itself. Its own warning screen states the game is "designed to be EXTREMELY difficult" and that "you will not get a perfect score for a WHILE." The good news is that the same screen offers a starting path: try Flag Drill first, and lean on the built-in progress tracking and wrong-answer review to improve over time. If you accept that early scores will be low and treat the board as practice rather than a test, the difficulty becomes the point rather than a barrier.

Why the difficulty is intentional

The game is a Jeopardy-style geography trainer covering countries, capitals, U.S. states, Canadian provinces, flags, oceans, mountain ranges, and more. You pick a dollar-value tile, take the clue, and try to clear the board. The warning screen frames low scores as expected, not as failure:

• "You will not get a perfect score for a WHILE."
• Progress is tracked in the browser over time, and "you will get better."
• The site explicitly suggests flag drills as a friendlier entry point.

That framing matters: the board is built around gradual mastery, not one-shot performance.

A beginner-friendly way to start

1. Begin with Flag Drill

The warning screen itself recommends this: "but try flag drills first that's really fun lol." Flags are a narrower, more visual task than recalling capitals or mountain ranges, so it's a lower-pressure way to get used to the question flow before facing the full board.

2. Use the narrower modes before Standard Board

The mode list includes options that reduce scope compared with the full Standard Board:

Starting narrow and widening later keeps the difficulty manageable.

3. Filter categories to a small set

Settings let you filter the board to specific categories, with counts shown as mastered · learning · unseen / total. Selecting a couple of categories (say, flags and capitals) rather than all of them makes each board less overwhelming. Note that category changes apply on your next New Board, so set them before you start.

4. Expect the board to track you, not judge you

Progress is stored in the browser and builds up over sessions. The site's mastery tracking is the mechanism behind its promise that you'll improve — so the first few boards are data collection as much as practice.

What to do when you get things wrong

Wrong answers aren't a dead end. After Game Over, the site offers a Review Wrong Answers option, and there's a "Learn This Right Now" prompt that asks you to build a mnemonic for a question you keep missing — you enter the question and answer, then confirm you've got it. For a beginner, that turns mistakes into a short, concrete study step rather than just a lost point.

A practical loop:

1. Play a small, filtered board (flags first).
2. Finish or reach Game Over.
3. Open Review Wrong Answers and note the patterns.
4. Use the mnemonic prompt on the one or two items you keep missing.
5. Start a new board with the same narrow categories until mastery counts rise.

Settings that soften the experience

The Settings panel includes options aimed at making sessions less punishing or more family-friendly:

• Turn off "Cursing allowed" for family-friendly text and a single tame wrong-answer sound.
• Sound effects can be toggled.
• Distraction Mode and Slap Me When I'm Wrong exist as optional challenge layers — leave them off while learning.
• Alternate Names can help if a place has multiple accepted names.

When Memorize Earth might not be the right fit

If you want a gentle quiz that rewards you with high scores early, this isn't that — the site is upfront about the difficulty and even gates entry behind a warning you must click through. It suits learners who are comfortable with slow, tracked improvement and who will use the review and mnemonic tools after mistakes. If you'd rather build confidence first, spend a week on Flag Drill and a couple of filtered categories before touching the full Standard Board.