Americadle — The Americas

Questions that make useful distinctions

Choose a question for the candidates you actually have left. A balanced yes/no split can be useful, but neither answer is guaranteed to eliminate half the pool; overlapping categories and missing facts matter. Prefer explicit predicates to vague terms such as nearby or large.

1. An unqualified country question about America or the Americas covers North America OR South America. Specify North or South when that is your intended distinction.
2. Do not confuse a country’s broad region field, such as Americas, with its physical-continent associations.
3. Use island status and named neighbors together: sharing an island does not prevent a country from having a land border.

Catalog, continent and disputed-region conventions

The current worldwide pool has 195 playable countries. Kosovo is included; Israel is excluded from playable targets and guesses without removing its canonical geography or historical facts. This is a game eligibility policy, not a diplomatic recognition rule. Use the current game suggestions as the candidate list; dependencies and disputed regions shown on a map are not automatically separate guesses.

Continental candidates come from stored physical-continent associations and per-mode exclusions. Europedle additionally excludes Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Georgia; Asiadle additionally excludes Egypt. Americadle combines North America and South America. A country can have multiple associations, so membership in a continental pool is not proof that all of its territory lies there.

The country-border builder normalizes Western Sahara to Morocco, Gibraltar to the United Kingdom, and French Guiana to France. These simplified database conventions can differ from a map’s boundary labels or a geopolitical source. They do not settle sovereignty disputes or automatically change continental eligibility.

Hemisphere associations describe stored territorial bounds, with some mainland overrides. France, for example, has both Eastern and Western associations. Island status is a sourced classification rather than simply an absence of land borders: countries sharing an island can border each other, while Australia is treated as a continent.

Country water access can include inland seas, but landlocked status uses marine access and excludes the Caspian, Aral and Dead Seas. Named direct coastlines are distinct from access through connected seas; only configured parent-water relationships are expanded, not every connection in the world’s oceans. River drainage is not coastal access.