Geography quiz
Unscramble the US states
Each row shows the letters of a name in the wrong order. The tiles are the names: swap them until each one sits beside its own letters.
- Format
- Match the labels
- Items
- 10 to place
- Limit
- None
- Level
- Medium
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
- Rows
- 10 of 40, drawn fresh each round
- Checks
- 3
- Time limit
- None
- The labels on the left stay put. Tap a tile, then another, to swap them.
- Check marks every row at once. Right rows lock; the rest can be moved again.
- Keyboard: Tab to a tile and press Enter to pick it, or use a tile's arrow buttons to move it one row.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Put each name beside its scrambled letters. The board appears when you start.
About this quiz
The names are the US states, read from a list Ribbia already holds. Every scramble uses exactly the letters of its name.
- A check marks every row at once. Right rows lock in green and the rest can be moved again.
- You have three checks, so the first can be a rough sort and the last a careful one.
- Each round takes 10 of 40 names.
- Counting letters is a fair shortcut: a seven letter scramble needs a seven letter name.
Sources
- [1]US Census Bureau. ANSI codes for states.
Note on the data. The states are those on the Census Bureau's state code list, checked on 3 October 2026. Only one word state names are used. The scrambles are made from the names by a fixed shuffle, and a test checks that each uses exactly the letters of its name and that no two names share the same letters.
Last checked October 3, 2026
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