You begin with two Europe countries/US states shown in the grid. Upon starting, your job is to sort the countries/states in order from largest to smallest by max elevation (so countries/states with the highest max elevation first). The order is represented by the '1st' thru '16th' in each box. You can click on a country/state to move it to a higher position in the list - simply click once and it will turn red, then clicked another higher-ranked country/state to position the first country/state before it. Click submit to check your answers...if they are in order you will get a new country/state added to the end which needs to be positioned correctly, and so on until you either get one wrong or complete all 15 levels.
PLEASE NOTE: Only the portions of each country geographically in Europe are counted to determine the highest points. So no Asian portion of Turkey/Russia, African portion of Spain/Portugal, Greenland, etc.
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9841/9921
With the recent number of cities, it is impossible to get a high score on the beginner level (9899 cities vs 9901 cities previously).
Yes it is constantly being updated as city-population.de updates – so soon it should be back above 9899.
When you’re back on the site, it’s currently impossible to get a high score, because the top scorers have 9468 cities and only 9462 are currently available.
I’m almost sure the previous version of the quiz (and the longitude one too) had a countries remaining counter which failed to be included in these updated versions. I think that counter is more or less a giving on coverage quizzes. It’s especially useful on higher levels where gaps are very small and I don’t have a clue on what countries I’m still missing. I think a 5/10 remaining countries would be enough.
Ah, the counter is there (though it reads States rather than Countries), but once we choose the level it’s gone so it’s all a matter of tweaking the quiz.