Type 'easy' or 'hard' to begin the quiz. Easy is a 10-degree grid, hard is a 5-degree grid. Then, try to name the largest Canada cities in each square IN ORDER. To name a city, you must first click on the grid square to make it have a GREEN border. Then, type in the city answer for that square followed by a '.' (a period).
The squares will start with '0/5' (or maybe fewer cities if less exist in that square). Click on a square and enter the largest city in that square not yet answered (so, the largest city if you have yet to answer a city in that square). You will then have '1/5' and need to click on that square to name the 2nd largest city, and so on until you complete all the cities up to 5 (or less if less exist). If you name an incorrect city in a square it becomes 'locked' and turns red and you can no longer accumulate cities in that square.
You receive 1 point for the largest city in a square, 2 for the 2nd largest, and so on.
At the end of the quiz the largest remaining city you haven't named will be shown in each square.
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21243 I couldn’t crack Minnesota and Michigan plus a few western states. “weed” somehow finish california
Adding to the tips already given, here’s a few more that will be helpful on higher difficulty levels.
1. Country/state names. Missouri has at least one of each, Indiana has at least two cities sharing names with countries (both in South America) and the previous State is also a city name.
2. Pokemon. Yes, POKEMON. There’s at least two cities sharing their exact name with Pokemon, one in Oklahoma, the other in Michigan, and another city in Texas that adds a T to the name of a Pokemon. All three Pokemon names are six letters in length.
3. County names. There are 3,141 counties/equivalents in the US that are used in the US County quiz. You’ll be pleasantly surprised at how many small towns you get with this strategy!
4. Given names and surnames. One of the ten largest cities in the country has a name used as both a given name and a surname. The 11th largest city is also on that list, mostly as a given name. Expect results similar to tip #3.
5. Street names. As a great example, the street I live on fits both tips 3 and 4!
20569/21391. completely forgot alaska and hawaii tbh
Needs an update to correct the gulf of america misprint. it’s the gulf of mexico. I don’t care what the orange man says.
Sorry it’s hardcoded into Google Maps, nothing I can do 🙁
I was bored and went the morbid curiosity route on beginner; only got as far as October 17, 1978 (Lanett, Alabama) but I got a score of 20744/21397 and fully covered 32 states. Which is both higher than I expected and lower than I feared. Probably would have gotten closer if I had more time and could have gotten all the way to the present. I don’t think I would have gotten Hawaii or Alaska fully covered
wdym in what order did you cover
Got all but 14
we need one that includes the territories cities
this quiz needs a custom option
Is it possible to complete the state of Alaska by covage?
The quiz is not working anymore?
working fine for me – trying reloading it.
i somehow got adak, alaska but not roseau, mn. im still happy with getting 21272
Roseau is the name of a Capital City in the Caribbean… remember all the tips given in the comments: Capital Cities, European cities, presidents/vice presidents, Springfield…
Is it possible to get Alaska? There’s a lot of towns that are not working
everything that’s incorporated should work fine for AK. unincorporated areas are generally not included in my quizzes.
20k /21k in intermediate… so close. Fun quiz!
Thanks Darin, fun quiz.
I got 16867 just by naming europian capitals and countries, pretty cool!
You can get a surprisingly long way by just typing European capitals
I believe it should be possible to exceed 20k points rather easily if you expand it to European city names in general. The amount of German/UK/historical city names found in the US is insane. Look at number of places called Heidelberg, Florence or Newcastle for example..
add in a few presidents and Springfield too 😛
Can the scores on this be reset? The amount of cities seems to be decreased.
i’ve lowered all the scores by the difference in amount of cities. I have less now as I was counting towns in some states that shouldn’t have been on this quiz.
the list needs to be updated last update was in 2015 weve had a us census since than
this actually is updated with 2020 census figures. i don’t mark every single US quiz that uses the same database each time I update the database.
its really hard to get all of the small alaskan towns might want to consider dropping some off the list i even write them down thinking i have enough in the radius but i don’t in the end for beginner
They’re real places, same as small towns in Idaho or Kentuck or Saskatchewan! Leave them in!