Map Game: How many of these top Colorado music festivals can you place on a map?

PUBLISHED: June 11, 2015 at 4:01 PM MDT | UPDATED: November 17, 2021 at 1:33 PM MST

Getting your player ready...

Can you find these four major Colorado music festivals on the map?

On Friday a major music festival. That go us thinking, can many people even find Colorado’s music festivals on a map of the state? Let’s see.

Drag each marker to where you think each city that hosts these Colorado music festivals: Jazz Aspen, Riot Fest, Gentlemen of the Road Stopover and Telluride Bluegrass Festival.

When you drop it, the answer will appear, and you’ll see how your guess compares with everyone else who has played.

Jazz Aspen Snowmass

Riot Fest Denver

Gentlemen of the Road Stopover in Salida

Telluride Bluegrass Festival

// Handle guesses from the child frames
window.addEventListener(‘message’, function(event) {
if ( event.origin === ‘https://extras.denverpost.com’ || event.origin === ‘http://localhost’ )
{
if ( typeof event.data.distance !== ‘undefined’ ) map_group.add_guess(event.data.distance);
}
}, false);
var map_group = {
config: {
games: 4,
log_url: ‘http://denverpostplus.com/app/mapgame/tally.php’,
slug: ‘festivals-2015’
},
guesses: 0,
distance: 0,
correct: 0,
add_guess: function (distance)
{
this.guesses += 1;
this.distance += distance;
if ( distance === 0 )
{
this.correct += 1;
}
if ( this.guesses === this.config.games )
{
// They finished the game. Log the results and scroll to them.
console.log(“HI”, this);
var distance = Math.floor(this.distance/this.guesses);
jQuery(‘#result’).append(‘Your guesses landed, on average, ‘ + distance + ‘ miles away from the targets.’);
//var params = ‘?slug=’ + this.config.slug + ‘&distance=’ + distance + ‘&lat=0&lon=0&callback=’; console.log(distance, params);
var params = { slug: this.config.slug, distance: distance, lat: 0, lon: 0, callback: ” };
var jqxhr = jQuery.getJSON( this.config.log_url, params, function(data)
{
// Success
// Display how the reader has done compared to everyone else.
var average = Math.round(data.average);
jQuery(‘#result’).append(‘ ‘ + data.guesses + ‘ other people have played. An average guess landed ‘ + average + ‘ miles away.’);
})
.fail(function() {
// Error
jQuery(‘#result’).append(‘ Sorry, we could not reach the upstream servers. Please refresh the page and try again.’);
})
.always(function() {
// Complete
});
jQuery(‘html, body’).animate({
scrollTop: jQuery(“#result”).offset().top
}, 2000);
}
}
};

.gameframe
{
border: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 700px;
}
#result { font-size: 200%; color: red; font-weight: bold; }

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