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Test your knowledge with the World Capital Pairs 7x7 Proximity Blackout Quiz. Challenge yourself and have fun discovering interesting facts about capital cities.

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World Capital Pairs 7×7 Proximity Blackout (Premium Only)

Directions

Upon clicking START you will be presented with a 7×7 table of World capitals. The object of the quiz is to pair up capitals two at a time which have the shortest distance between them.

Single click on a capital’s text and it will highlight red. To choose the other capital of the pair click another capital’s text. Also, you can re-click on the first capital to deselect it. The distance between them will be shown and you will get up to 100 points. 100 points corresponds to the closest pair of capitals, 0 points to the farthest apart pair – scores decrease based on the distance of your two capitals related to the possible range of distances. Those two capitals will then be replaced with their score and you will now choose the closest pair of capitals from the remaining 47 capitals which have been adjusted to have 100 and 0 corresponding to the closest/farthest pairs among those 47, and so on until you run out of time or complete 24 pairs of capitals leaving one left.

You get a 100 point bonus for completing all 24 pairs within 15 minutes, making for a total possible point total of 5000.

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