Country name game

[TGirl lover]

We got a world capitals game going, how about a country name game. Same rules as the capital one. Every answer starts with the last letter of the previous answer. Here is the starter:

Iceland

[smc]

My entry:

Djibouti

[TGirl lover]

good one. I don't even know where that is...lol...


India

[smc]

Azerbaijan

Do you know where that one is?

[Rambam]

Uhhh, what a country.

Namibia :p

[rockabilly]

australia - the only country thats also a continent:)

[smc]

We're going to run out of countries soon if people keep picking ones that end in "a".

Here's my next one:

Afghanistan

[TracyCoxx]

How bout Norway

[rockabilly]

Yugoslavia - damn that one ends in "a" too most countries end in "a" thats eerie :)

[smc]

Yemen would have worked, too.

Perhaps we need to stipulate the rules of the game more clearly. Yugoslavia is no longer a country. The name for Yugoslavia is now Serbia & Macedonia. However, if we expand the rules to include all sovereign states, whether they still exist or not, the pool of available names will certainly be greater. For instance, Czechoslovakia would be available to use, whereas today there is no such country as Czechoslovakia (having divided into Czech Republic and Slovakia).

Anyhow, for now, here's my "A" country, unavoidably also ending in "A" until we change the rules:

Antigua & Barbuda

[ila]

Armenia

Another country ending in a

[smc]

Well, unless we change the rules (as I suggested), this game is going to be over very, very soon.

Albania

[TracyCoxx]

Well, unless we change the rules (as I suggested), this game is going to be over very, very soon.

Albania

Make the 2nd letter be the first letter of the next one?

[smc]

If the suggestion from TracyCoxx is agreeable to all, then we'll be able to keep going, and my next one will be ...

Laos

[guest]

spain... woot...

[TracyCoxx]

spain... woot...

lAos... Spain... nah, doesn't work.

If we're doing the 2nd letter of the country, then from Laos, I'm going with Argentina

[guest]

wait what? i thought it was the last letter of the name? im confused. oh well

[BlueRaven88]

going from N from spain cos we all got off track a it.

Netherlands

P.S. to Rockabilly - Australia is also the world's largest island and the world's smallest continent ;)

[smc]

The whole idea was to take the 2nd letter one time to get out of the "a" problem, but perhaps I'm wrong.

Anyhow, here's my "N" country:

Nauru

[TGirl lover]

My next one is....Uraguay

[smc]

Well, now we've used up the Y countries:

Yemen

[TGirl lover]

Then we will go to the Ls

Nepal

[smc]

Well, there aren't a lot of "L" countries that won't place us back in the same dilemma as all other countries ending in "a", so I choose

Luxembourg

[rockabilly]

I'm doing it greek... I say Greece ;)

[smc]

To avoid ending in "a":

Egypt

[ila]

Thailand - to avoid Y and A

[smc]

Dominican Republic

[ila]

Cameroon - Again to avoid A

[smc]

New Zealand

... and soon we will be hitting the "a" problem again.

[ila]

New Zealand

... and soon we will be hitting the "a" problem again.

Not necessarily

Denmark (beat you to it, Hank)

[rockabilly]

Kazachstan home to Borat , very nice:)

[BlueRaven88]

N again huh? Niue

[TracyCoxx]

Let it be...

Ecuador

[BlueRaven88]

I apologise to everyone in advance but this one ending with an A really was unavoidable. I know I checked online

Russia

[TGirl lover]

I can avoid the A.

Azerbaijan

[smc]

I used Azerbaijan already.

[fionahavelock]

I used Azerbaijan already.

yes it was taken before, so austria

[Cyborg]

Yemen would have worked, too.

Perhaps we need to stipulate the rules of the game more clearly. Yugoslavia is no longer a country. The name for Yugoslavia is now Serbia & Macedonia. However, if we expand the rules to include all sovereign states, whether they still exist or not, the pool of available names will certainly be greater. For instance, Czechoslovakia would be available to use, whereas today there is no such country as Czechoslovakia (having divided into Czech Republic and Slovakia).

Anyhow, for now, here's my "A" country, unavoidably also ending in "A" until we change the rules:

Antigua & Barbuda

It was Serbia & Montenegro (not Macedonia) but this state exists no longer as well since Montenegro´s independence from June 3rd, 2006.

My contribution: Andorra.

[TGirl lover]

How about: Algeria

Sorry about another A

[Cyborg]

Sorry but there are no other countries that start with A but do net end with A.

Angola

[smc]

It was Serbia & Montenegro (not Macedonia) but this state exists no longer as well since Montenegro´s independence from June 3rd, 2006.

My contribution: Andorra.

You are absolutely correct: Montenegro. It's funny how multitasking can mess with the things you know. I know Macedonia is wrong, probably knew it when I typed it, and yet the fact that I had just completed a discussion with a Greek colleague arguing about the Greeks and their obsession with calling Macedonia "Skopje" put my mind in a place where I just typed the wrong thing.

In any case, the game is screwed by the recycling of countries beginning and ending in A.

[Cyborg]

I don´t understand the Greeks and why they´re so obsessed with Macedonia. They´re not even real Greeks themselves.

Ok, let´s start with a new country:

Hungary

[TGirl lover]

Finally a new letter to start with and I promise I won't use one that ends in A.

Yemen

[The Conquistador]

Good ol'Nicaragua

[Vanillas]

Afghanistan

(My apologies if this has been used before - or too recently - but I don't have the patience to read through all the posts)

[SilverSabre]

What about heaven on Earth - the Netherlands
pot, sluts and hardstyle disco :D

[Vanillas]

SWEDEN, land of beautiful blondes and the home of the Nobel Institute and Museum.

[Naked Freedom]

nepal ..........wonderful country

[The Conquistador]

How about Lebanon?

[Vanillas]

How about........NICARAGUA

[Vanillas]

Aruba (and Daddy is playing with himself again).

[bangee88]

Argentina. The choice of countries beggining with A is dangerously narowing :eek:

[Cyborg]

We're through with all A-countries. Time for a change.

Brazil

[Recrudescence]

Latvia(or Republic of Latvia if you want to be very specific:p)

[smc]

Latvia(or Republic of Latvia if you want to be very specific:p)

Putting aside the insipid nature of playing a game like this online (it seems to me the pleasure would come from being face to face and seeing how fast the next person can come up with a contribution to keeping the thing going), I don't think you get how it works. If the last person started with Brazil, I'm pretty sure you need to follow with another country that begins with "B." Of course, I could be wrong. I profess neither to know the exact rules of the game or to be willing to devote brain cells to finding out. :no:

[ila]

Putting aside the insipid nature of playing a game like this online (it seems to me the pleasure would come from being face to face and seeing how fast the next person can come up with a contribution to keeping the thing going), I don't think you get how it works. If the last person started with Brazil, I'm pretty sure you need to follow with another country that begins with "B." Of course, I could be wrong. I profess neither to know the exact rules of the game or to be willing to devote brain cells to finding out. :no:

The object of the game is to take the last letter of the name of the country in the last post and use the last letter as the first letter of the next country. This game really has no legs as there is not much variety in the last letter of a countrys' names. That is why the letter 'a' keeps coming up and pretty well all the countries that begin with 'a' have already been named in this thread.

This thread is at the top of the contenders to die and never be resurrected.

[smc]

The object of the game is to take the last letter of the name of the country in the last post and use the last letter as the first letter of the next country. This game really has no legs as there is not much variety in the last letter of a countrys' names. That is why the letter 'a' keeps coming up and pretty well all the countries that begin with 'a' have already been named in this thread.

This thread is at the top of the contenders to die and never be resurrected.

Well, then, I owe Recrudescence an apology for thinking he had played incorrectly, and everyone else an apology for posting in the thread at all and thus contributing to the opposite of its demise.