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Europe 10K+ City Pairs Proximity Blackout – Choose Country
DirectionsFirst, choose a European country (a few are not included as they have under 10 qualifying total cities) by entering it and choosing from the drop-down box – you will then be presented with a 5×5 table of random 10K+ cities among the 100 largest in that country (may be under 25 cities if less than that exist in that country). The object of the quiz is to pair up cities two at a time which have the shortest distance between them. Any cities with the same name in a country were left out of this quiz to avoid confusion.
Single click on a city’s text and it will highlight red. To choose the other city of the pair click another city’s text. Also, you can re-click on the first city 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 cities, 0 points to the farthest apart pair – scores decrease based on the distance of your two cities related to the possible range of distances. Those two cities will then be replaced with their score and you will now choose the closest pair of cities from the remaining 23 cities which have been adjusted to have 100 and 0 corresponding to the closest/farthest pairs among those 23, and so on until you run out of time or complete all pairs of cities leaving only 1 or 2 left.
You get a 100 point bonus for completing all pairs within 5 minutes.
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new record in France !!!
can you make the box a little smaller so it’s possible to timer+box at the same time without scrolling?
i’m going to leave as is – however you can change your browser’s zoom to fit it all in (hold CTRL and mouse wheel up/down on Chrome works I know).
Sometimes it is hard to understand how the scores are calculated. For example, I got a score of less than 90 for matching Ingolstadt and Erlangen for Germany. There were no cities anywhere close, definitely no combination of either would have yielded a shorter distance
hmm are you certain there wasn’t a closer pair? I’ll look at things but it should score the closest pair of the current shown cities as 100.
In this case I am 100% certain, yes. I have tried the quiz multiple times and noticed similar strange calculations, so I was actually re-trying the quiz until I found a case that was as clear as this one.
ok i did some debugging – and was always able to have the closest pair yield 100 – if you see this again is there any chance you can take a screenshot of the grid before you start, and then let me know the pair of cities that should’ve been 100 but wasn’t? I can’t replicate this, and I’m choosing Germany. Always getting 100 for the closest pair. also – try reloading the quiz and holding CTRL when clicking refresh – maybe I had an error on the initial upload or something.
For example, I took the quiz again now, and Munich – Augsburg gave me a score of 96. I am not sure how there could be a closer according to the definition and selection you use… If you like I can send you the screenshot
Yes but that’s related to all possible pairs in the grid. If there are any two other cities closer than Munich and Augsburg those two would be the 100 score. Just making sure you understand that the 100 score is the closest among ALL possible pairs available. Augsburg may be the closest city to Munich in the grid, but there may be two other cities closer to each other.
OK, I see. So it means one needs to be extremely lucky to get a high score because it depends more on the original selection of the cities and not so much on the ability of finding the closest pairs? Like, when half of the cities are extremely close (e.g. all in the Ruhr area), it may be impossible to get any decent scores for all remaining pairs (e.g. in Bavaria, Northern Germany where cities are all further apart).
Sorry for bothering you so much about this, I just thought it was a bug but if this is by design, then of course I misunderstood
Yes now you are understanding how it works. But yeah sometimes you can get cities grouped nearby so it’s harder at the beginning.
Also keep in mind you aren’t just choosing a city and then finding the closest city to that city, you are choosing the closest pair among all possible pairs currently on the grid. That’s 300 pairs with a new grid.
I saw a double city in The Netherlands
hmm i don’t see how that’s possible – you remember which one? spelling could’ve been very close for the two cities.
It was Middelburg if I remember correctly. I see the problem mentioned above as well, got a quiz with Sittard and Kerkrade and the score was something like 95 while no other city was present in the vicinity of this isolated part of The Netherlands
Ok I noted just now above, you are choosing the closest two cities, not choosing any city then naming the closest other city to that one. And yeah I see Middelburg – will fix.
I get it know, took me a couple of days 🙂