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.
I encountered a weird error – I typed in Spain and it brought up a list of what I presume to be the largest cities per letter per country, sorted by population. I typed in a bunch of cities it would “take” my answers but nothing was revealed and my score was [answers]/0. I kind of have an unbeatable score in Spain now though, lol.
Forgot to add – issue was gone on refresh. Probably just an issue with not loading the country – the country listed was on the side, but it was clearly pulling from all European countries.
hmm must be a one-off bug – i’ll remove that score.
For the Netherlands, you included a category which starts with an apostrophe (‘). The answer for that character is given as ‘s-Gravenzande, while ‘s-Hertogenbosch is the given answer for ‘S’. ‘s-Hertogenbosch is correctly written with an apostrophe though, and should be the answer for that category instead of ‘s-Gravenzande. Or you could remove the ‘-category entirely.
yeah I’ve fixed this – the apostrophe shouldn’t have been included as a letter.