First choose any Europe 10K+ pop city by entering it and choosing it in the drop-down box. Then, name any Europe 10K+ city in each 100 km circle/ring as the rings expand outward from your city of choice, trying to name SECOND LARGEST city in each circle. The first circle will include your city of choice as a possible answer.
PLEASE NOTE - You must type a '.' (period) after each city to submit it to prevent answering another city with a name you would be have to type to get your answer. If multiple cities have the name you submitted, only the largest one will be counted.
You accumulate points based on the population of the city you named in relation to the second largest city in the circle. A smaller city’s point total will be the ratio of its population to the largest, so if you name a city of 75K people and the largest city has 100K, you get 75 points. Naming the largest city will get you points based on the ratio of the 2nd largest city's population to the largest city's.
When you run out of time or end the quiz, you will see the current ring’s 2nd largest city at right (under ‘Answer Stats’ by your coordinates).
For example, if you choose ‘Paris’ – you will be shown a circle of radius 100 km centered at Paris. Naming any city in this circle (including Paris) will cause another ‘ring’ of radius 100 km to appear outside that circle, however - you will want to try naming the SECOND LARGEST city you can to get more points. After completing that circle, you now need to name any 10K+ Europe city in the new ring (but not within any previous circles/rings), again trying to name the 2nd largest city. If there are not two cities within the next ring of that distance, the ring will keep expanding by that distance until two cities fall within it.
Very fun, managed to complete it despite being stuck with three small Russian cities at the end, but in the end remembered the correct name for Vorkuta. Also had some troubles with the Azores. Forgot about Ponta Delgada and when Angra do Heroísmo didn’t work (why? It has 30k+ population), I assumed the Azores were not included. But somehow Portugal was still missing.
Hmm, the quiz seems to be freezing all of a sudden, there is a big lag from when i write an answer and when it registers, anyway to fix this? I love this quiz btw 🙂
working fine for me…
How come Cascais and Estoril don’t work? Cascais municipality has over 100’000 population. It is situated west of Lisbon in Portugal.
Amazing quiz. On expert mode the difficulty is in finding the outskirts of big cities. Paris London or Berlin only give you 1 city each whereas naming 1 of their suburbs can bring 10 or 20 cities at once
Those are large municipalities not cities. Populations are for city proper or the equivalent depending on how a city is defined and how counting is done for each country’s census.
same question on funchal
Funchal not included on this one – only Europe geographically.
Reykjavik’s circle is impressive!
wait until you see vorkuta’s!
Where do you draw the line in russia? Like what is the most eastern city you have to get because for me I got Voronezh but Nizhni was too far east I assume.
there’s not an “official” line so I kinda just go to the eastern edge of the Urals such as Yekaterinburg
you can enter Nizhny Novgorod.
I think the description should clarify what the aim is more clearly, I was already 10 minutes in when I realised I wasn’t aiming for an accumulated population of 10 million lol. Ik that’s just me being stupid but it might help others understand. Great game tho now I understand it lol
It doesn’t seem to recognise Maastricht.
worked for me, maybe you misspelled?
Is there something I’m missing here? I completed every country apart from (obviously Russia) and POR, which I’m thinking is Portugal, but how? Is it Madeira, because Funchal is not entering.
it’s the Azores
hello!how did you fill that spot near Istanbul in Turkey?Can’t complete it
Nicosia
thanks, varna+thesalloniki+nicosia helped me to finish with turkey
thessaloniki*
sile is the one of istanbul’s districts
You can fill it in with ponta delgada
This crazy